Sorvino OK to carry gun he showed in dispute

Actor who responded to threats against daughter is a deputy sheriff in Pa.

Tobin Grimshaw / AP file

Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday.

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updated 6:04 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2007

STOWE, Vt. - “Goodfellas” actor Paul Sorvino, who pulled a gun on his daughter Amanda’s ex-boyfriend in a confrontation, was allowed to carry it and never pointed it at the man, police Chief Ken Kaplan said Wednesday.

Amanda Sorvino, 36, told a Monroe County judge in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, that she had locked herself in a bathroom and called both police and her father after the man pounded on her Stowe Motel room door and made threats on Jan. 3.

“He got in my father’s face and said, ‘Go ahead, Paul, shoot, I ain’t done nothing wrong,' ” Amanda Sorvino testified. The judge granted her request for a protection-from-abuse order against Daniel Snee, 21, of Effort, Pa.

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Sorvino, a deputy sheriff in Pennsylvania, is entitled to carry a weapon from state to state, Kaplan said.

“He expressly stated there was no way through his training that he aimed the gun at this person, he didn’t even threaten him,” Kaplan said of Sorvino. “He just said, ‘I have a gun, I want you to stay away from my daughter, back off,’ because the guy was out of control, and he was.”

An affidavit filed by Stowe police Officer Frederick Whitcomb said Amanda Sorvino had broken up with Snee earlier that night.

After being arrested, a handcuffed Snee escaped through an open window of a police cruiser and was found hiding in trees behind the motel about an hour later, the affidavit said. He was charged with escape and disorderly conduct.

The affidavit said Snee had a blood alcohol content of 0.175, more than double the legal limit for driving in Vermont.

He was being held Wednesday at the St. Johnsbury Regional Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Paul Sorvino starred in 1982’s “That Championship Season.” His film credits also include “Goodfellas” and “The Cooler.”

He is also the father of Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar for her role in Woody Allen’s 1995 comedy “Mighty Aphrodite.”