Cops: Cameron Douglas Dealing $18K of Crystal Meth
The son of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has been arrested - and not for the first time - but Cameron Douglas has really outdone his drugged-out self.
Police say that the younger Douglas, 30, was in the middle of a deal to sell an eye-popping pile of crystal meth before he was snared by federal authorities.
The sometime-actor / sometime-DJ was busted back on July 28 at the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District by a DEA task force, police sources report.
He'd been staying at the hotel for some time in a room rented by his dad. When the authorities barged in, they found the place a mess and Cameron "very strung out."
An informant had told the investigators that Cameron Douglas was the middle man in a deal to move a half-pound of crystal meth from California to New York to sell.
The drugs were intercepted before they got to New York.
Crystal methamphetamine sells for approximately $80 a gram - meaning Douglas had allegedly dealt about $18,000 worth. Not a small-time sentence, we'd guess.
Michael Douglas was informed and was "furious," a source said. A spokesman for Michael has not return calls for comment. Nor has the U.S. Attorney's Office.
As of this report, Cameron Douglas is still being held in custody.
In 2007, when the dude was still a n'er-do-well and not a full-fledged drug dealer, he was arrested with another man after being pulled over in Santa Barbara, Calif., with a bottle of liquid cocaine and a syringe in the car.
In 1999, when he was working as a DJ at the Tunnel club in Chelsea, he was busted buying cocaine with a gal pal from a drug dealer being tailed by cops.
Aside from getting arrested on drug charges, Cameron Douglas is best known for starring with his father and grandfather in 2003's It Runs in the Family.
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August 12th, 2009 11:41 AM
I am responding to:
"Tony Montana JR. Says:
August 9th, 2009 1:09 AM
I was busted with half a kilo of cocaine in NYC, distribution and possesion. Back in 2006, I was 30, I accepted my wrongdoings and did my time. I came to realize how I was part of vicious circle that contributed poison to society. Today I make an honset living, bit I admit I still do cocaine. Thats how terrible addiction is, it keeps coming back."
Really...? possession of half a key & distribution charges three years ago and you've already done your time, been released & secured a straight job that you can live on? Well Congratulations! I know plenty of non-felons that can't find any job, let alone make an "honest living." I think that maybe, just maybe, the cocaine is working for you. Good Luck with that, Mr. Montana, Jr.
August 9th, 2009 1:15 AM
Lets be real, here. He is a selfish, rich and lazy, daddy's little boy. With an addiction out of control. Stop sugar coating his contribution to societry with his poor and sad Beverly Hills child hood. Come on Crystal meth is worst than heroine!!!!
August 9th, 2009 1:09 AM
I was busted with half a kilo of cocaine in NYC, distribution and possesion. Back in 2006, I was 30, I accepted my wrongdoings and did my time. I came to realize how I was part of vicious circle that contributed poison to society. Today I make an honset living, bit I admit I still do cocaine. Thats how terrible addiction is, it keeps coming back.
August 8th, 2009 12:21 PM
I have to wonder if we truly are products of our environment. Or, we find it easier to blame our environment as opposed to changing ourselves.
Afterall we do learn what is acceptable,what sustains us, about love,life and consequences, if any growing up. The nature of the beast so to speak in all of us is inherently born that we are addictive by nature.
We have all heard that if your father/mother was an alcoholic "you have a much higher likelyhood of becoming and alcoholic as well!" I say COMPLETE and total bull! So, all of these big doctors and such with PHD's to prove it are telling me that my DNA is made up of Budweiser? Hog wash! And we, as a society "still!!!" looking for excuses to not be accountable buy into that crap. Hey Doc, give me more excuses to remain unaccountable so that I can receive your weekly invoice - afterall, everybody's got to make a living right? Oh, and don't forget that prescription I "don't" need but you're in my head so head says I'm screwed up and
August 8th, 2009 9:21 AM
Uh yah it happens even to the less wealthy...WRONG IS WRONG and he is old enough to understand that. Why wouldn't he ask for help if he wanted it? My life was not easy either but you know what? YOU are responsible for your own actions. I've told that to my sons too since day one and they can't blame anyone for their wrong doings and to this day they are very responsible. Bottom line is he like many Hollywood Children are spoiled and have been handed everything too. It has nothing to do with his Father not being there. GROW A SPINE ALREADY...we are all good kids until we get in trouble. Hopefully yes he will get help and HOPEFULLY he will learn from it, or m'be just end up back in jail. DO THE CRIME, DO THE TIME.
August 7th, 2009 7:37 PM
I used to care for Cameron when he was a kid. (when he was 5, again when he was 10 and then again when he was 15) I spent alot of time with him and this I know for sure...he was a great kid! Unfortunately, as a child of a famous person, you sometimes get left behind emotionally and i believe this is what happened to him. Not saying his parents weren't there for him, just not enough - no way. And over time, actually around 15, you could see a pattern developing - one of rebellion. The thing about Cameron is that he is REALLY tough-minded and always has been. Probably gets that from his 'pappy' Kirk who he loved alot. So i believe that as he started sensing that he was 'on his own' in this life, no matter how much money he was connected to, he started 'fighting back' at the system that was not loving him the way all kids should be loved. And he got tougher and tougher over the years, concealing his pain and again fighting back to in a way punish whoever he felt 'left him' as a child. I