Richard Quest, CNN Reporter, Arrested On Drug Charges

***UPDATE***
The New York Post reports on new, lurid details regarding the arrest of CNN reporter Richard Quest.

CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.[...]

Quest was initially busted for loitering, the source said. Aside from the oddly configured rope, the search also turned up a sex toy inside of his boot, and a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket.

It wasn't immediately clear what the rope was for.

The New York Times' City Room blog reports that CNN International business and travel reporter Richard Quest has been arrested on drug charges:

Mr. Quest was arrested early Friday morning after being escorted out of Central Park for violating the park curfew, a law enforcement official said Friday. The park is closed from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.

The police noticed Mr. Quest at 64th Street and West Drive at about 3:40 a.m., the official said. As he was being escorted out, he volunteered, "I have meth in my pocket," according to an official briefed on the case. The police searched him and recovered a small amount of methamphetamine in a Ziploc bag.

Not sure who Richard Quest is? Check this video out below:

Related: Thought Process Flowchart: CNN's Richard Quest [236.com]

Comments

[maxfusion]

I bet old Ted Turner loved the job interview with this guy.

[MsLiz]

Ted Turner is no longer a part of CNN. That's why CNN is so awful.

[BlackMagicWoman]

"a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals"

I'm not a guy, but wouldn't that hurt?

[TheWesternBreed]

I'm no expert on the practice, but I think that that's the whole idea.

[chirps]

Ouch.

[chirps]

I demand to know exactly what kind of sex toy he had. This is news!

[Americanium]

I wonder if he was rendezvousing with Lou Dobbs?

[whatsmyname]

Americanium, gets the prize for being the only one to figure that story out..... Wolfy, sent Lou, as he was busy with Rummy.....

[gd7277467]

"a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot,"

Learned that one from Dicky Morris !

Hubba-Hubba !!!

[BushBites]

A kinky Brit?

Say it ain't so.

[Shozen]

A sad statement of our society. The number of people who turn to drugs for release from the stress of living in a fast paced world. Is the fast paced world worth it? An acquaintance of mine in his early forties had a hot rock hard body of a twenty year old athlete. He started taking meth to keep up with ever growing requirements of his fast paced job. (Got to stay efficient to keep up with consolidation and avoid job outsourcing!) He ended up at the time of his arrest a couple of years later looking like a seventy year old on the verge of death.

Good Luck Richard. May the gay sex angle not be held against you in the future.

[heal57]

Shozen, What a lovely post. You are a compassionate human being Good luck, Richard.

[munimula]

I think the British slang for "boot" means in the trunk of his car...In America, a "sex toy in his boot" either means in his shoe or in his ass...Whic­h is it???

[eridees]

hehe... thx for the laugh. I needed one!

[zizyphus]

Well, I guess Mr Quest has a career as a Republican Senator in his future.

[halfdemhalfgop]

Love your post zizyphus, lucky he does not have a future career as a Democratic senator. If he did, he would be leaving dead bodies of girl’s drowning to death in some river at three in the morning. On the upside since he likes meth instead of whiskey it may not take him twelve hours to call for help... The point both party’s have senators with shady past

[BushBites]

You're still getting over your encounter with Larry Craig, aren't you?

[TheGeeber]

You have to resort to a 30+-year-old reference?

[whatsmyname]

HALF DEM......H­ALF GOOP......­..Sounds like you're talkin about Joes Scawww bro, again. Scaw bro, left a dead chick in his pad, in Florida didn't he? And, just look at him you can tell he's a woman hater (watch the joke of a show and you'll see).

[spikkels]

dude, girl"s? party"s? try girls and parties, no punctuation needed

[Boringat]

He turned down a job with Big Al Jazeera because he's Gay and Jewish. Is he allowed to discriminate like that in your country??

[John Warren Gotsch]

Richard Quest deserves better than this!
As a frequent viewer of CNN he can be a bit of a distraction, but when he is spot on, he is.
Wish you well Richard!

[chumleypotts]

So true. What is the world coming to when a simple rope around the neck tied to the genitals , a sex toy in the "boot", and a bit of meth in one's pocket is considered deviant behavior! Society is just so intolerant today. The poor man was just publicly celebrating his sexuality , and should have been permitted to frolic unfettered.

[bobdob]

Big surprise. Anyone watching him on television for 30 seconds would know he was either doing meth or crack. He was the most wired human on the airwaves.

[Wanjiru]

...authori­ties ought to do a drugs raid on CNN HQ's, the crap those people there have been reporting as objective news during this presidential race warrants this....th­ey have ALL got to be smoking something, those Faux News lites...



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[mollysgran]

And they have bed-bugs, too!

[sa]

why was richard quest
loitering in the park at 3:40 a.m.?

DICK QUEST!!


i'll be here all week...

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[DLSteinhardt]

Please tip the waitstaff.

Absolutely hilarious, those here who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that when one is cruising for sex in a well-known sex area of Central Park, that one is indeed looking for sex.

Even Richard Quest, the most hilariously over-the-top newsman ever to appear on US screens.

What a surprise, that the most torqued TV personality, ever, likes meth!

[avicenna]

Yet more proof that CNN has an adverse effect on one's mental health.

[957]

what does cnn have to do with it? explain? your must have some proof to back up that statement don't you?