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Alec Baldwin has been arrested. The volatile actor was handcuffed by police officers in New York on Tuesday and taken away in a cop car, according to In Touch with one witness telling the publication Baldwin 'went ballistic on the cops, screaming at them' during the incident which led to his arrest. TMZ reports he was stopped by police for cycling his bike the wrong way down Fifth Avenue and one of the reasons he was arrested was because he did not have any identification on him. By the time he was cuffed he was 'calm and quiet', another onlooker...

...Baldwin was arrested in New York City Tuesday, as according to online reports....was taken into custody on 5th Avenue after he “went ballistic on the cops, screaming at them,” though was “calm and quiet” at the time he was handcuffed and placed into the cop car....

Alec Baldwin was handcuffed by police Tuesday after he allegedly rode his bike the wrong way on Fifth Avenue and argued with officers who tried to ticket him, NBC 4 New York has learned. He later tweeted that "New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign." A law enforcement source said Baldwin was seen riding his bike the wrong way near 16th Street in the Flatiron district Tuesday morning and when police stopped to give him a summons, he grew angry. Baldwin, who was wearing a...

‘Belligerent’ Alec Baldwin screamed at cops during arrest By Larry Celona, Jamie Schram, Emily Smith and Bruce Golding He is still a hater. Rage-a-holic actor Alec Baldwin was busted in Manhattan Tuesday over a belligerent rant against cops who caught him biking against traffic — and then got the arresting officer’s Hispanic last name wrong when he lashed out at her on Twitter, sources told The Post. “Officer Moreno, badge number 23388, arrested me and handcuffed me for going the wrong way on Fifth Ave,” Baldwin tweeted after being sprung from the 13th Precinct stationhouse. Law-enforcement sources said the cop...