Leif Garrett Booked For Heroin In LA Subway

LOS ANGELES — Former 1970s teen idol Leif Garrett has been released from jail on a charge he carried heroin into a Los Angeles subway station. Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the actor and singer was arrested late Monday for heroin possession and released on bond Wednesday.

Whitmore says the 48-year-old was shaking and sweating.

Whitmore says Garrett denied having drugs at first and allowed them to search him, then acknowledged that he had black tar heroin in his shoe.

Garrett has a history of drug use, including a 2006 arrest at another Los Angeles subway stop for having heroin.

He is due back in court Feb. 24.

It was not immediately clear if Garrett had an attorney.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

Comments

[HarrietteTheSpy]

11:14 PM on 02/04/2010

So sad,

[MotorcycleBoy]

08:34 PM on 02/04/2010

btw...that's an old mugshot from a previous arrest.

[berthanan]

11:49 AM on 02/04/2010

Who???? never heard of him and frankly who cares......

[Sardonica]

09:29 AM on 02/04/2010

There's an opportunity here for Tiger Beat to do some hard-hitting, important journalism.

[bartonfink]

10:52 AM on 02/04/2010

Ha! I wish I'd thought to ref Tiger Beat! My sister always had that rag lying around. Appropriately sardonic, Sardonica.

[peowlemeow]

09:33 PM on 02/03/2010

Smack is just grim.

[Lucky123]

08:51 PM on 02/03/2010

Why was he stopped and searched in the first place? Because he was shaking and sweating? Is that reason enough for a personal search nowadays?

[JohnFromCensornati]

01:41 AM on 02/04/2010

Maybe he was stopped because he was in the subway in LA?

[bartonfink]

08:07 PM on 02/03/2010

What?! There's a subway system in L.A.???

[AntiSheep13]

02:16 AM on 02/04/2010

Yea, where have you been?

[bartonfink]

10:39 AM on 02/04/2010

Simple misdirection, my friend. You know, Leif Garrett keeps getting busted for the same thing, so I was feigning shock at the information etc. Although a subway system in one of the most geologically active areas in the world has always struck me as incongruous.

Is your avatar an upside-down silhouette, or some kind of negative space image where you can make out an old woman or an urn, depending on what you choose to see? Also, what do you have against sheep? Just wondering

[sybergirl]

08:02 PM on 02/03/2010

The real story here is that someone actually used the subway in L.A.! I live here and don't know anyone who takes it ever...

[Indepatriot]

02:56 AM on 02/04/2010

Its jammed to capacity every day, oh clueless one. Wake up and smell the future.

[ReelBusy]

07:51 PM on 02/03/2010

This is big news!

LA has a subway?

[Joe in Hollywood]

09:52 PM on 02/03/2010

It has thousands of them.

Those $5 foot longs are great !!!!!!!!

Actually the Metro Link system is pretty good.

However, with the city being so big, we're still tied to our cars.

So public transportations is mostly for "people who don't have cars".

[KIMBER]

12:10 AM on 02/04/2010

We have a subway system in Los Angeles (we also have an above ground passenger train system); it only started about 10 years ago. The subway stations are beautifully designed and always teeming with people - yes, it has riders. Problem is, it's still very limited as it's very new, but it is expanding. As it starts going more places where people want to go, it will have more riders. I for one hate being tied to my car and would gladly take public transportation if it was just more comprehensive. If I still lived in Hollywood and worked downtown, I would most certainly take the subway as that's precisely what one of the lines is for, but that's no longer my situation. It's erroneous to think nobody in Los Angeles will take public transport since they love their cars so much. Most of us would give anything to get out of our cars at least part of the time if only the public transportation was easier to access. Doesn't make much sense to take the subway when you still have to drive to the station.

[ReelBusy]

12:46 AM on 02/04/2010

I'm going to ride it all the way to Tremor Ave. or Earthquake Place.
It's the only subway in the world that isn't sure if the station will be there when the train arrives.

[LMPE]

07:41 PM on 02/03/2010

Another has-been celebrity in trouble? HP needs a section exclusively for these incidents.