Ezra Miller arrested again
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LOS ANGELES • Ezra Miller, who has played the superhero The Flash in movies and television series, is facing an assault charge in Hawaii after being accused of hurling a chair, which hit someone.
The actor, 29, was at a gathering at a private residence on Hawaii's Big Island, according to police.
He "became irate after being asked to leave" and was then said to have thrown a chair that struck a 26-year-old woman on the forehead, causing a half-inch cut.
The woman refused treatment, police said. Miller was arrested at 1.30am on Tuesday after a traffic stop and later released "pending further investigation".
That arrest was his second in Hawaii in less than a month. The first happened on March 28, when he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and harassment after an incident at a bar in the town of Hilo.
Police said they had responded to a report of a disorderly patron at a bar who had become "agitated" when others at the bar were singing karaoke.
The patron was Miller, who began yelling obscenities and grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman. The actor later lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts, police added.
The bar owner asked Miller to "calm down" several times, police said, but "to no avail".
Miller was freed on US$500 (S$683) bail, police said. The Associated Press (AP) reported that the actor had become aggravated by a karaoke rendition of the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper ballad Shallow. He was later removed by police from another Hilo property.
A couple in Hawaii filed a petition asking for a temporary restraining order against Miller for that incident in a case that was later dismissed, according to AP. The petition said Miller had burst into their room, threatened them and stolen a wallet and a passport.
An agent in New York and a lawyer in Hawaii who have represented Miller did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Miller has appeared in television series and movies for more than a decade, starting with the series Californication (2007 to 2014). He recently starred as the wizard Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts films (2016 to present).
He is best known for playing The Flash in the 2016 films Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad. He will appear in director Andy Muschietti's The Flash, which is in post-production.
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