No More Tweets: Roger Avary Behind Bars

Published by Jeff Leins on: December 2nd, 2009

Oscar-winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe) won’t be updating his Twitter account anymore with 140 character descriptions of life in jail.  The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department got wind of his Tweets and last Thursday placed him behind bars for the remainder of his sentence.

The 44-year-old screenwriter was incarcerated starting October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter following a drunk driving crash that killed his passenger.  He was serving time through the work furlough program that allowed him to leave the jail during the day and return to his cell before a night curfew.

“He really messed up,” Sheriff’s spokesman Ross Bonfiglio told the LA Times. “He could have done nine months out of a year sentence, and not even in lock up for killing someone. Now he is going to do the remainder of that time in county jail.”

Avary racked up at least 25 Tweets since he was placed in the program, describing himself as #34 and writing about strip searches, talks with other inmates, and jail lock-downs.  The last update, posted on November 27 (after the transfer), was erased. Luckily Google’s Internet caching system preserved the message. “#34 is ‘rolled up’ to a higher security facility for exercising his first amendment rights. The truth he has discovered is too dangerous,” Avary tweeted.