Pulp Fiction writer locked up 'over Tweets'

Authorities say Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been removed from a prison work programme and locked up.

Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a passenger, 34-year-old Andreas Zini, who was visiting from Italy. The accident also injured Avary's wife.

Ventura County sheriff's spokesman Capt Ross Bonfiglio said the 44-year-old Avary had been placed in the county jail.

The Los Angeles Times and the Ventura County Star said he was removed from the furlough program after allegedly Twittering about his experiences since being sentenced.

The Times reported Avary's Tweets included "#34's new roomie, EZ, takes Yeyo's old bunk, locker, AND number. He regales awesome tales about his former life as an Oxnard gangbanger" and "It's your birthday!' announces that #34 is to receive a random strip-down and cavity search to be performed by a leering, rotund officer".

Avary and Quentin Tarantino share the 1995 Academy Award for writing Pulp Fiction.

- AP