The 'Goodfellas' movie ends with Mr Hill, played by Ray Liotta (left), entering federal witness protection after implicating fellow mobsters in murders and the 1978 heist of US$5.8 million in cash from a Lufthansa Airlines vault in New York. -- PHOTO: ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT
SAN BERNARDINO (California) - A MOBSTER-turned-FBI informant whose life inspired the movie 'Goodfellas' is wanted for failing to appear in court on tickets alleging he was drunk in public in San Bernardino.
Henry Hill, 65, faces two US$25,000 (S$38,000) arrest warrants.
He says he wasn't aware he needed to be present in court on Wednesday and had asked for a new hearing date because he was having hernia surgery.
'I was hoping the court would understand,' Mr Hill told The Press-Enterprise of Riverside from his San Fernando Valley home.
The cases stem from two public intoxication arrests in May 2008.
The 'Goodfellas' movie ends with Mr Hill, played by Ray Liotta, entering federal witness protection after implicating fellow mobsters in murders and the 1978 heist of US$5.8 million in cash from a Lufthansa Airlines vault in New York.
Drug arrests led to Mr Hill being removed from the federal program in the early 1990s. -- AP
