Wesley Snipes began serving a three-year sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Thursday for failure to file income tax returns. Snipes, 48, arrived shortly before noon at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in the tiny northwestern Pennsylvania town of Lewis Run, federal prisons spokesman Ed Ross said. He had been ordered to surrender by noon.

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Wesley Snipes won’t be home for the holidays after a judge denied his request to move the date in which he surrenders himself for his jail sentence.

He filed a request with the judge last week, asking him to move the turn in date from December 9th to January 6, 2011, but was denied.

TMZ reports:

Wesley’s argument … he has “four minor children” and didn’t want to get locked up “in the middle of the holiday season.”

But a judge didn’t see it that way — because according to documents filed today in Florida, the judge denied the request citing the fact that Wesley was originally sentenced over two-and-a-half years ago … and therefore the actor had “all of that time to place his affairs in order.”

The judge also wrote, “The sooner he begins his sentence, the sooner it will end.”

Poor guy…That has to suck, not being able to spend the holidays with your kids…. But it’s not like this was a surprise, right?

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According to TMZ, Wesley Snipes must turn himself in to a Pennsylvania prison – by next week!

Snipes is due to begin his three-year prison sentence for tax evasion on December 9th. And according to documents obtained by TMZ, Snipes got an ominous warning from the U.S. Marshals Service: “Failure to report at the designated place and time may result in additional criminal charges.”

Snipes has appealed several times ever since he was convicted on tax evasion charges back in 2008 — but looks like it’s the end of the road.

Earlier, we reported that Wesley Snipes was heading to jail — and now, he’s been taken into custody!

He is currently en route to a federal prison after being taken by federal authorities. He will begin serving his three-year sentence for tax evasion.

TMZ reports:

As we previously reported, a judge ordered Snipes to surrender earlier today … after the actor spent years appealing a conviction on multiple tax evasion charges.

That has to suck! But he tried and tried to have it appealed!

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The hammer is finally dropping on Wesley Snipes — a judge has ordered the actor to immediately surrender to federal authorities so he can begin serving a 3-year prison stint for tax crimes.

Snipes has been appealing like crazy ever since he was found guilty on tax evasion charges in 2008 — but now, a U.S. District Court judge is putting his foot down … demanding that Snipes turn himself in ASAP.

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Wesley Snipes has been offered a comeback role once his tax troubles have been resolved – director Spike Lee insists he’s the only man he wants to play his James Brown.

Many feared Lee and Snipes had fallen out when the director dropped the Blade star from his new war movie Miracle at St. Anna – but the moviemaker insists he had to recast Snipes’ role when the actor’s legal woes meant he was unable to film abroad.

Lee explains, “He was cast in the role that Derek Luke plays, but he wasn’t allowed out of the country due to his tax situation. He couldn’t get a visa, and making St. Anna would’ve required him to spend extensive time in Italy.”

But the filmmaker, who teamed up with Snipes for classic 1991 movie Boyz N the Hood, insists he has a part waiting for the actor once his ongoing appeal for freedom in light of a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion is resolved.

Lee tells King magazine, “He’s a phenomenal actor, and I truly feel that he’ll regain that power he once had. If my James Brown picture ever gets made, he’ll be playing James – and he’d kill in that, without a doubt. He still has chops.”

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Wesley Snipes has been granted permission to leave the U.S. to work abroad.

The troubled Blade star, 45, was handed a three-year prison sentence in April after officials found him guilty of failing to file taxes for five years.

He is currently free on appeal, and filed a motion last month begging Florida federal judge William Terrell Hodges to allow him the work opportunity.

Snipes argued the money he earns from the two films will “satisfy his civil tax liabilities”, and his lawyer insisted he was not a flight risk because “were he to abscond under these circumstances, it would destroy his ability to earn a living for the rest of his life”.

And Snipes has now been approved to fly to London for three days later this month to finish work on Gallowwalker, while he will spend a further eight weeks in Bangkok, Thailand to shoot Chasing The Dragon.

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