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Farrah Fawcett's troubled son back behind bars
by Natalie James - January 6, 2010 - comments
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal’s son Redmond was arrested last year on April 5 after police found him carrying narcotics in a jail facility in Castaic, California
Los Angeles, January 6 -- Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett's troubled son Redmond O'Neal is back behind bars. A Superior Court Judge ordered Redmond back in jail Tuesday, after finding that that he had committed a drug-related probation violation.
The 24-year-old Redmond was arrested Dec. 29 on drug charges after his first 24-hour release from a California rehab facility.
Redmond, who has been sober for six months after battling drug problems for years, was released from jail last year and moved into a rehab center in September to continue his fight against substance abuse.
Short-term release brought big trouble for Redmond
Authorities allowed Redmond out for a day shortly after Christmas, but took him into custody on Dec. 29 on a felony charge after according to RadarOnline.com. He displayed odd behavior upon his return to the facility, where he had been undergoing an intense drug-treatment program.
Redmond "was out of his rehab facility on a 24-hour pass. When he came back, he told the program counselors that he had used drugs," L.A. County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told People.com. "He subsequently tested positive for drugs.”
Sentenced again
Citing a Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman, Jane Robison, TVGuide.com reports that Redmond appeared Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where judge Michael Tynan ordered him to complete a 30-day in-custody drug treatment.
"It seems to me you haven't got a clue as to what recovery means," said Judge Tynan, who nearly a month ago praised Redmond for making progress in his treatment. "It's a lifetime commitment. It's grinding, hard, painful work."
According to People.com, Judge ordered him into a 30-day jail rehab facility pending a Feb. 2 progress report.
The wild child of Ryan and late actress Fawcett(who died of cancer on 26 June), is now facing up to six years in prison.
Junior O'Neal’s drug busts
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal’s son Redmond was arrested last year on April 5 after police found him carrying narcotics in a jail facility in Castaic, Calif.
Junior O'Neal’s arrest came during a routine security check in the parking lot of Pitchess Detention South Facility in Santa Clarita. Redmond was giving a ride to a friend at the facility when sheriff's deputies searched his car and found heroin.
Redmond was behind bars as his actress mother was battling with anal cancer in hospital. He was allowed to briefly leave jail to visit his cancer-stricken mother.
On April 25, authorities had allowed the incarcerated Redmond to leave jail with a police escort for three hours to meet his ailing mother.
He was still in jail as Fawcett endured her final battle with the cancer. She died in Los Angeles on June 25, and at that time too Redmond was released from jail for a few hours to attend her funeral.