Ryan O'Neal And Son Redmond Arrested On Drug Charges

LOS ANGELES — Ryan O'Neal and his son were arrested Wednesday morning after authorities said they found drugs at the actor's Malibu home during a routine check associated with Redmond O'Neal's probation.

Investigators suspect both men had methamphetamine, but the substances still need to be tested, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies and probation officers went to O'Neal's home for a routine check of Redmond O'Neal, who is serving three years of probation after pleading guilty in June to drug possession charges.

Whitmore said in addition to drugs that deputies suspect belong to Redmond O'Neal, deputies also found narcotics in Ryan O'Neal's living area. Both men were released after posting $10,000 bail and could be charged with felony possession of narcotics.

Ryan O'Neal, 67, was nominated for a best actor Oscar for "Love Story." Redmond, 23, is his son from a relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett.

O'Neal had two children with his first wife, Joanna Moore: actor Griffin O'Neal and actress Tatum O'Neal, his co-star in the 1973 movie "Paper Moon," for which she won an Oscar for best supporting actress.

Tatum O'Neal, the youngest actress to win an Oscar and who now has a recurring role on FX's series "Rescue Me," pleaded guilty in July to disorderly conduct in connection with an arrest on suspicion of cocaine possession in New York.

Ryan O'Neal was arrested last February on suspicion of assaulting his son, Griffin, but charges were never filed.

A call to Ryan O'Neal's agent, David Shapira, was not immediately returned Wednesday morning.

Comments

[riceowlex]

This is ridiculous absolutely ridiculous. The "War on Drugs" is a fraud people. All it's done is create a $500 billion dollars shift of taxpayers hard earned money from them and their families to increase law enforcement, build prisons, destroy families..­damn wake up already. Now what is it 80%-90% of the people in prisons in the United States are there for drug possession or drug use. Most of these involved marijuana.­.YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.WAKE TFU PEOPLE. These men are adults, they make decisions good or bad, if they want to use drugs they will, legal or illegal. the difference being if the drugs are legal, they're regulated and THERE IS NO INCENTIVE TO SELL ILLEGALLY BECAUSE THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT OF THE PRICE. If it's illegal then the price is there, illegal activity takes place, people are killed. the people that are addicted don't get help as they would or could if these "drugs" were regulated. the addicted are hrown in prison to get out if they get out and the stupid cycle starts all over again...Je­sus wake up already. We are the country we want to be. Call your Congress people and tell them your sick of the lies, kill the fraud and keep your money and save lives

[harriettubman]

Someone in this family has to break the generational curse that's been handed to these poor adult children. Drugs, drugs, drugs. Dysfunction, dysfunction, dysfunction. We wonder why Tatum O'Neal struggles with addiction. It's because of the way she was raised--wealthy but no stability, structure or nurturing in her life. Neglected children who grow into adulthood usually don't have the skills to reform themselves. It's time for some good therapy to deal with the demons of their childhood before breaking any addictions. Ryan O'Neal has been a sorry father and looking at him, he was probably raised the same way he raised his children. I always wondered why Farrah Fawcett's face prematurely aged. It was probably due to drugs too. As a mother, where has she been because Redmond has been on drugs since he was a teen too? Lee Majors was probably the best thing that ever happened in her life. O'neal refuses to acknowledge any parental wrongdoing. I have news for him. Look at ALL of his children and there's your answer.

[KNadine]

This whole family is a mess. Someone needs to have a intervention. They'll come if you call it a "family reunion".

[MorpheusXNYC]

All the meth might belong to his kid, even the one found "in his living area", as the kid may have stashed it where he idn't think his Dad would look.

But regardless, this silliness with prohibition must come to an end. When are we going to decriminalize drugs and offer counseling - not jail time - to those people who take them to numb the pain of their lives that drives them to these substances?

Everyone's got their own way of self medicating and numbing the pain of problems we can't or won't address.
Some of us workout, go jogging, meditate, do yoga, dancing, etc. Those people find positive stress relief outlets and emotional state change vehicles through physical activity.
Others turn to religion, psychologists, support groups, friends, family, etc. They turn to sources of comfort through communication and human comfort.
Then there are those that turn to food, alcohol, narcotics, etc, which is the group that society disapproves of. So instead of realizing that they just have negative coping strategies and helping them find positive one, the puritanical moral police throw them in jail.

Nice. Such a modern, civilized, advanced nation we live in. (sigh)

[dangerousjay]

What do you do when they walk out of drug counseling? Offer them even more counseling? Are you seriously advocating for the decriminalization of methamphetemine? This is not like like the weed you and your friends smoke on Sunday nights before Mad Men. Meth is a scourge and the police are on the front lines getting treatment-resistant addicts into court ordered treatment. The probation dept. was at the home to make sure this guy was doing what we a society want him to do--staying off drugs. Law enforcement is part of the solution to this problem in the real world. You can fantasize all you want about yoga classes.

[pravin]

Ryan O Neil is lucky he hasnt been arrested in the past for his parenting. The guy is a terrible human being even if one were to believe just half of what Tatum O Neil wrote in her book. He allowed his other kids access to drugs. Nothing surprising about this.

[rzan1]

He has several kids from three or four different women, and he has got to be one of the worst fathers in the universe.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

Throw away the key on this family, just toss them all in jail. I am sick of reading about them, looking at them. What a pack of losers. It amazes me, how some people who were given fame, money, still end up like skid row bums. Most people would kill for that kind of money, lifestyle, and they just take it for granted, behave like spoiled brats and abuse it. I have zero sympathy for people like that. None. You would think watching Tatum falter would make her dad step up to the plate and be the role model for her and her brother, instead, he joins them in the sewer. Pathetic.

[gr8abz]

I thought Ryan had leukemia seven years ago, I think he's a fool to be trashing his body especially in light of that. He should eat organic food, drink lots of spring water and head back to the boxing gym --even if it's just to work the bags. Sad.

[leftcoastliberal]

At 67 you'd think crystal meth would give him a heart attack.

[TheCritic]

Maybe thats what he wants!

[Steamboater]

That's some dysfunctional family but a lot of it has to do with Ryan. He has long history of gettng violent, with women and his sons. It's sad really, father, son and daughter--all of them drug addicts in a lot of pain. Meth isn't something you fool aound with either. That Redmond is living oin Malibu and not behind bars after all the trouble he's been in says something very clear about the inequality of or justice system, in fact the race and class discrimination rampant throughout it. A poor white,or black etc person would be sitting behind bars right now and not living comfortably in Malibu.

[vagary66]

Umm... anyone else here bothered by the idea of Ryan O'Neal on crystal meth??

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

No, absolutely not!

[Fudgefase]

I'm bothered by the thought of ANYONE on crystal meth. It's a bad, bad drug.

[megacephalus]

such is life in a gone bananas police state!

or is it the next 'banana republic'

what ever happened to the right of 'quiet enjoyment'?

[as viewed from Berlin, Germany]

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Exactly! We Americans love to swagger around on the world stage, pounding our chests and declaring that ours is the free-est country in the world. We put on a pretty poor show, dont we? What a disgrace and an embarrassment!

[1099]

So the laws don't apply if one is breaking them in their home?

Meth for all I say!

[uclafan]

Now we know who the father of Prince Harry is

[Theda]

stupid remark, not funny

[phae100]

Could we stop denigrating people for needing drugs to get thru life in this cold era?

Sensitive people, people who feel, feel the scary aspects 1000X more than normal people feel it.
They do drugs to block out the fear temporarily.

[edpell]

Another victimless "crime". The prison/police/bank state rolls on.