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Fawcett's son gets done for his deeds
by NeelamGoswami - April 11, 2009 - comments
Redmond, who has been behind bars since Sunday, April 5, 2009 bust, faces up to three years in state prison for the violation
New York, April 11: Redmond O’Neil On Friday was held responsible for violating his probation. He is now facing three years in state prison for violating the terms of his probation for a previous drug conviction.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Nancy Newman ruled Friday that Redmond has violated his probation for a drug offense. The judge revoked his bail and ordered a sentencing hearing on two felony counts for next week.
Friday’s ruling came hours after Redmond’s cancer-stricken mother Farrah Fawcett was released from a Los Angeles hospital. The 62-year-old "Charlie's Angels" star was rushed to an undisclosed LA-area hospital last Thursday after suffering bleeding in a stomach muscle following a surgical procedure she had in Germany to contain the cancer from spreading.
"He is being held without bail," says a spokesman for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Redmond was on probation for a 2007 drug bust. Since his last sentence, the 24-year-old wild child of celebrity couple Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal has been arrested twice more; once on Sept.17, 2008 during a routine probation check at his Malibu home, and again Sunday morning, April 5, 2009, when authorities caught him with heroin during a routine security check in the parking lot of Pitchess Detention South Facility in Santa Clarita.
According to the L.A. County District Attorney's office, Redmond, who has been behind bars since that Sunday bust, faces up to three years in state prison for the violation.
An official from a residential treatment facility, where Redmond was living, told the judge yesterday morning that he tested positive for methamphetamine use, and that traces of heroin were found in his room at the facility, due to which he was terminated from his “Prop 36 program” on April 1.
"Mr. O'Neal was recently discharged from a residential treatment facility after testing positive for meth and because traces of heroin were found in his room," DA spokeswoman Jane Robison said. "Because of that, the judge terminated his Prop. 36 program." The program allows drug offenders a chance to receive treatment instead of jail term.
Meanwhile, Redmond will remain in custody until next Friday April 17, where he will be sentenced for his probation screw-up.