Alec Baldwin Arrested!

 

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 but no official details of the arrest have been released. 

According to one witness, Baldwin 'went ballistic on the cops, screaming at them' during the incident which led to his arrest. 

However, by the time he was cuffed he was 'calm and quiet', according to another onlooker. 

A source with the New York Police Department told In Touch: 'The incident just happened, we are waiting for details at this time.'

While the reason for Alec's arrest is unclear, he has faced controversy in the past few years for repeatedly being accused of using homophobic slurs. 

In November his newly-launched cable show was pulled off the air  after the actor was caught calling a photographer a 'c***sucking f**'.

It came after a rough week for the actor, as he appeared in court for the trial of his stalker and then got in at least four arguments with journalists and photographers in front of his Manhattan apartment in the following days. As the suspension was announced, Baldwin even threatened to quit showbiz for good.

'If quitting the television business, the movie business, the theater, any component of entertainment, is necessary in order to bring safety and peace to my family, then that is an easy choice,' he wrote in a blog post on the Huffington Post.