‘Babe’ Star James Cromwell Sentenced to Jail Over Power Plant Protest

Actor was arrested and charged with obstruction of traffic in 2015

Happy 4th of July weekend, James Cromwell; enjoy your jail stay.

Actor James Cromwell — whose credits include “American Horror Story: Asylum” and “Babe,” for which he was nominated for an Oscar — has been sentenced to a week in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from the protest of a natural-gas power plant in Wawayanda, New York.

Two other protesters also received a week in jail, the Times Herald-Record reports.

Cronwell and five other protesters were arrested in December 2015 and charged with obstruction of traffic after staging a sit-in at the site of the plant, which is scheduled to go online February 2018.

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