Nicolas Caged: Inside the Drunken Arrest

More details are emerging about the altercations that left Nicolas Cage arrested early Saturday morning in New Orleans, and the runup to those events.
"He was running around and screaming in the street," a barman at Harry's Corner in New Orleans says, describing Cage's drunken, semi-crazed state.
Cage and his wife were fighting over which house they were renting in the French Quarter, adds Peter Bennett, a local street performer who lives nearby.
The actor them stumbled around, wasted in a tattoo parlor.

Nicolas Cage Wasted at Tattoo Parlor

The Academy Award winner, who is filming in the area, was charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace after arguing with his wife, Alice Kim.
"Apparently he had mistaken the house of my neighbors for the other house up the block that he is actually renting," a witness says.  "His wife was trying to persuade [Nicolas] from disturbing the elderly couple who do in fact live in that house."
Cage is actually renting the house three doors down.
When cops arrived, the barman says the actor started to get into the back of a police car, to get a ride home, but then took off for unknown reasons:
"Cage ran a block south toward the river, where he tried to get into a cab. There was a woman outside with a baby, shouting, 'Please don't hurt us.'"
Cage, who was arrested after antagonizing the police officer who ordered him out of the cab, seemed to be intoxicated, according to a fellow inmate.
"He was drunk," says a guy in the holding cell near where Cage was dragged in, noting that the actor was actively chatting with sheriff's deputies.
"He wasn't in a cell. He was behind the counter with the other officers."
After being bailed out by Dog the Bounty Hunter, who posted his $11,000 bond, the 47-year-old is due in court to face the charges on May 31.
No one answered the door of the Cage property (the one he really lives in) on Saturday evening, while a rep for the actor had no comment.
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Nic Cage: Argumentative, WASTED at Tattoo Parlor Prior to Arrest

Surveillance video taken inside a tattoo shop just before Nicolas Cage was arrested this weekend shows the actor drinking and arguing with his wife and others.
Cage is clearly shown carrying some sort of drink as he stumbles around, fretting to employees about not recalling where he lived and getting testy with wife Alice.
Nic began throwing his clothes around, demanding to get inked up. Intoxicated, he then asked employees to call the cops ... 'cause he didn't know where he lived.
Police report that this was the topic he and Alice were arguing over - the address where they're living while he films Medallion - when he allegedly grabbed her.

In the surveillance tape, Cage, holding a clear plastic cup, can be seen with his arms around two friends as he enters. Nic walked out and back in and out again.
At that point, he can be seen arguing with his wife and friends. His wife can be seen motioning to herself throughout, as if to say, "Listen to me" or "Come with me."
Eventually, Nic acquiesced and left the shop ... only to later be arrested on charges of domestic violence and disturbing the peace, having taunted police to bust him.
He was released on $11,000 bail after Duane "Dog" Chapman posted bond for him, which is easily the most random and hilarious part of an already classic story.
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Nicolas Cage Arrested For Abusing Wife, Taunts Cops, Sprung By Dog the Bounty Hunter

Nicolas Cage was arrested early this morning in New Orleans for domestic abuse against his wife, Alice, along with one count of disturbing the peace.

In town filming a movie called Medallion, Nic and Alice disagreed over the exact address of an apartment they were renting in the city, police report.

Standing in front of a property he believed they were renting, he grabbed her by the arm to pull her to what he believed was the correct address.

Police say there were no visible signs of injury on her arm, but just the same, he joined our celebrity mug shot gallery with this hilarious pic.

The NOPD went on to say Cage then began to hit parked cars and later attempted to get into a taxi. Cops say Cage eventually got into a cab.

A police officer ordered him out ... which "prompted Cage to start yelling" and basically daring cops to arrest him ... which always goes well.

It only got wilder from there.

The police came and told Nic and his wife to just go home, however, that's when the actor allegedly told cops, "Why don't you just arrest me?"

The cops then reiterated that he and his wife should just go home. Cage then repeated his dare to cops, who ultimately decided to oblige.

He was charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace.

Later, it was revealed that Alice is reportedly not a complaining witness and doesn't want him charged, saying there was no physical contact.

Nic was then released on bond ... thanks to Duane "Dog" Chapman! Dog and his wife Beth arrived at the scene and sprung him for $11K!

Beth posted on her Twitter, "My guy just walked out of the jail damn new Orleans 8 hours holy cow that's a lot of time to Process one guy."

More details to come as this ridiculous story develops ...