Redmond O’Neal Arrested Again for Drugs
Jan 5th, 2010 by Bilal Ali
Redmond O’Neal still can’t avoid being arrested – even while in rehab.
The troubled son of the late Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal was busted on a drug violation on Dec. 29, a Los Angeles DA spokeswoman said Tuesday. He had been undergoing in-patient rehab since September.
At a hearing Tuesday, Judge Michael Tynan ordered Redmond, 24, into a 30-day jail rehab facility pending a Feb. 2 sentencing hearing for violating probation.
“It seems to me you haven’t got a clue as to what recovery means,” Judge Tynan lectured Redmond, who was nervously shaking his leg while wearing a blue L.A. County jail jumpsuit. “It’s a lifetime commitment. It’s grinding, hard, painful work.”
The younger O’Neal had written a letter to the court explaining his relapse. In it, he wrote about his family’s struggles and that he had “let them down.” Fawcett died last June, while her son was behind bars.
Despite his latest arrest, Redmond’s lawyer Richard Pintal said he was “confident” he could keep his client out of prison. The younger O’Neal has been arrested multiple times for drug charges over the years.