1970s teen idol Leif Garrett has been released from jail on a charge he carried heroin into a Los Angeles subway station.
Friday, 5 February 2010
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
