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

[Jennysaypa]

Questie!

He's a good lad really. I don't know why he was volunteered that information on being escorted out of the park.

Back in his BBC business days he had this little waster who was his other side of the pond buddy, who truly went down hill and eventually disappeared. I remember noting that on the one hand Questie moved up in the world and began working for CNN and the other guy faded and died.

Ah well, such is life.

[shockmagog]

I used to watch Richard Quest in the 90's on CNN very late at night. He was great. I don't watch CNN anymore, however.

[Oldbuck]

Now if CNN can figure out what the H Lou Dobbs is on he must be smoking some of that wacky tobaccy. He must have got it from Mexico while he was down on the border stopping Illegal aliens Now he is bad mouthing the Pope. If CNN does not get ride of him they are going to drop behind FOX noise I really feel sorry for Quest he has a real problem.

[SmootyBooty]

You got that right...

[zeke3]

This is funny---the part about Dobbs and what he might be smoking.

[LC23]

Yeah! How dare Lou Dobbs try to warn Americans about the destruction of our middle-class. Let's ignore the fact that millions of Americans now work for 1/2 or less of their former wages and just call them racists if they complain about loosing everything they worked for.

[smartalek]

LC23, you're right to be angry. But you're being scammed into blaming scapegoats.
Immigrants are a fraction of our middleclass erosion. They're a scapegoat for the real criminals -- the "rentier" (unearned wealth: shareholders, propertyowners, bondholders) class. They've skyrocketed, while we've lost ground.
Classic divide-and-conquer. They've got you worried about little brown people, while they've switched the tax burden to the middle class, from the wealthy & corporations. Check the pols who voted for bankruptcy "reform" that won't protect a working family from medical catastrophe, but lets the rich & corporations protect theirs. Check how NAFTA gave far more of our jobs to little brown people in their home countries than they've taken here. Read the anti-labor record of the NLRB -- charged with protecting our rights, but supporting the union-busters all the way.  Compare the pennies the immigrants take to the dollars we're losing as Congressional Republicans keep the minimum wage from just staying even, let alone gaining. (But they still get their raises.) Check out the tax cuts they want for oil companies already making the highest profits ever. Think how fast they bailed BearStearns (with our tax $), but won't consider homeowner bailouts.
Stop being their chump.
If you've ever voted Republlican you've been voting for your own economic enslavement. Get angry at the right people, LC23, and let's take our country back from the real thieves.

[Kalima]

Richard! Well I never!

[zeke3]

I don't know much about drugs---does meth make you hyper, or the opposite? For he really is hyper, always has been. Over-the-top hyper, but I thought it was either too much coffee or else genetic.

[Steamboater]

Let's put it this way zeke: Meth is what makes rockets go to the moon!

[mollysgran]

Why am I not surprised? I have never been able to watch this guy for 2 minutes! I am bettin' that there are folks at CNN who knew he was "using".

He is useless as a reporter -- actually one of the reasons I quit watching TV news over 2 years ago.

[brooklynbridge]

He was picked up near the Rambles -- a legendary gay crusing area -- in Qust for what? For whom?

[jamo02110]

Time to get Sean Hannity...

[djonan]

i think its also time to check michael ware. something is going on with him...he needs a break from his time in iraq.

[sweetchuckd]

See all the public school teachers getting caught with drugs at http://detentionslip.org. It's a leading source for crazy news in education.

[AlgerHiss]

Doesn't CNN have medical coverage for broken noses?

[zeke3]

What about Bill?

[Newsish]

I changed the channel the other day when Michael Ware came on, not because I don't like him, but because it's so uncomfortable to watch his reports. He's got a wild-eyed look and an intensity about him that is just weird.

[planetfotheApes]

The American drug war is a government war against primarily our young people. We live in a free country except the government decides what you can do to and with your own body. What a joke.

[ljsfolly]

Richard is a hoot when he's doing the British thing for CNN as he does know the Brits and the Queen crap. I thought he was too straight for drugs but I guessed wrong. He gave it up because he would be better maybe when they searched him? Don't know as I have not beeb arrested with meth in pocket.

[UpstateNYer]

Richard Quest is a user?

wow...

[letsplaynice]

Ah! So that's the scoop he was looking for in Central Park at 3:00 in the morn.

[ignorantwillyharper]

No, he was looking for a man.

[Ping]

Gay?

[hjo4]

He was out cruising the park for sex with guys and was arrested, that's nothning new in NYC. Even having the meth is not new in the gay world.I hope CNN goes easy on the guy, although he can be annoying on air, he's an ok fellow.

[anons]

Anyone who has ever seen his show is probably not the least bit surprised. The dude's schtick is pure comedy, let the man get high if he wants