Crime & Safety

'The Flash' Actor Arrested At Hawaii Bar, Accused Of Harassment

Ezra Miller, who played Barry Allen, also known as The Flash in the DC Extended Universe movie "Justice League," was arrested in Hawaii.

Ezra Miller, who played Barry Allen, also known as The Flash in the DC Extended Universe movie "Justice League," was arrested in Hawaii.
Ezra Miller, who played Barry Allen, also known as The Flash in the DC Extended Universe movie "Justice League," was arrested in Hawaii. (Hawai'i Police Department)

HILO, HI — Ezra Miller, the actor who played Barry Allen, also known as The Flash in the DC Extended Universe movie "Justice League," was arrested in Hawaii and charged with disorderly conduct and harassment.

Late Sunday, South Hilo police were called for a report of a disorderly patron at a Silva Street bar, police said.

Investigators determined Miller, 29, became agitated when other bar patrons began singing karaoke. So much so, that police said Miller yelled obscenities and eventually grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman who was singing. Miller later lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts, police said.

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Miller repeatedly ignored the bar owner's requests that the actor calm down, police said.

Miller, a native of Wyckoff, New Jersey, who now owns a farm in Vermont, was arrested and charged on both offenses, and later released on $500 bail.

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The arrest of Miller — who also plays Credence Barebone, aka Aurelius Dumbledore, in the upcoming film "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore," — comes after video appeared to show Miller grab a woman's throat and throw her to the ground in April 2020. That incident happened at a bar in Reykjavik, Iceland and Miller was escorted out of the bar.

Miller also briefly appeared in a clip shown at the Academy Awards on Sunday. The scene, from Zack Snyder’s "Justice League," won “most cheer-worthy moment," a new award which is voted on by viewers at home.

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