Topic: DRUGS - on February 13, 2005 at 12:41:00 AM CET
Actor Tom Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis
Sizemore, 43, who played a battle-hardened sergeant in the war movie "Saving Private Ryan," was placed in custody on Thursday. He was ordered to remain behind bars until a hearing on February 24, unless he posts $25,000 (13,500 pound) bond, Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney said on Friday.
During Thursday's proceedings, prosecutors told Judge Baretto that Sizemore failed three drug tests in three days, the first after he was caught using a fake penis sewn into his boxer shorts and filled with a clean urine sample kept warm by a heating pack.
Carney said the ruse was revealed when the temperature of the sample proved too cool to have come from Sizemore's body, and he was asked to remove his pants.
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