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Real Life 'Goodfella' Arrested

Mob informant Henry Hill gets drunk showing his artwork

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 15, 2009 2:15 PM CST

(Newser) – Henry Hill, the mobster-turned-informant who inspired the movie Goodfellas, has been arrested for a drunken incident at an Illinois hotel. Hill has been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and is free in lieu of $1,000 bail. Hill, in the town of Fairview Heights for a showing of his artwork, tells the Belleville News-Democrat he’d had “one too many” drinks, and things “got pretty foggy after that.”

Police were summoned just after 9pm Sunday to deal with a disturbance in the lobby. “Apparently I got loud and belligerent,” says Hill. “But there was no one there except me and the girl in the lobby, so now I owe her an apology.” He added that it wasn’t his first arrest for being intoxicated. “I don’t drink every day,” he said. “I know I shouldn’t drink this much, but they give you free drinks.”

Henry Hill, 66, is seen in his booking photo, after his Dec. 13 arrest at a Fairview Heights, Ill. hotel for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Henry Hill, 66, is seen in his booking photo, after his Dec. 13 arrest at a Fairview Heights, Ill. hotel for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.   (AP Photo/Fairview Heights Police)
Ray Liotta played the real-life gangster in 'Goodfellas.'
Ray Liotta played the real-life gangster in 'Goodfellas.'   (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, file)
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waloki
Dec 16, 2009 4:44 AM CST
Hmm Liotta hasn't aged well
cementhead
Dec 15, 2009 10:31 AM CST
He was busted for a huge amount of Extasy is Arizona at one point. I thought they were planning to give him 200 years on that one. This guy keeps slipping out from under the axe. Not your average life.
hybrid
Dec 15, 2009 10:14 AM CST
he has been out in the open for a while now!
 

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