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Ex-Montecito Resident Cameron Douglas Awaiting Sentencing on Meth Charge
By William M. Macfadyen, Noozhawk Publisher | 
| Published on 01.30.2010
Former Montecito resident Cameron Douglas — son of actor Michael Douglas and his ex-wife, Diandra Morrell Douglas — was released on bail Friday while awaiting sentencing in a New York City drug-dealing case. He is facing at least a 10-year federal prison sentence as a result of the conviction.
Douglas, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this week to a charge of dealing crystal methamphetamine and cocaine out of a trendy hotel in New York’s Meatpacking District. According to news reports, he also pleaded guilty to a separate felony heroin possession charge, which stemmed from his girlfriend’s attempt to smuggle the drug to him in an electric toothbrush while he was under house arrest at Diandra Douglas’ Manhattan townhouse.
Douglas will be sentenced April 27. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he must serve a minimum of 10 years in prison on the meth conviction. Prosecutors said Douglas had signed a plea agreement, but the details were not disclosed.
DEA agents arrested Douglas in July at Manhattan’s Hotel Gansevoort, where he was found to have large amounts of crystal meth and cash in his possession. The arrest came after Douglas allegedly mailed 215 grams of the drug to a federal post office box in a package addressed to a government informant.
According to the New York Daily News, an informant had told investigators that Douglas, a bit-part actor, deejay and the grandson of Kirk Douglas, was the middleman in a deal to move a half-pound of crystal meth to New York from California.
Michael Douglas appeared briefly in Manhattan federal court Friday to sign papers for his eldest son’s release, but he declined comment to reporters. The family had earlier released a statement addressing Douglas’ troubles.
“We are devastated about the recent behavior of our son, Cameron,” the statement said. “Any family who has dealt with substance abuse knows how difficult it can be.”
Douglas, who will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device while on bail, was arrested in Carpinteria in 2007 on cocaine possession charges and he was busted in New York in 1999 for buying drugs.
— Noozhawk publisher Bill Macfadyen can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Follow Noozhawk on Twitter: @noozhawk.
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» on 01.30.10 @ 02:28 PM
Gee, didn’t see THAT coming.
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» on 01.30.10 @ 03:47 PM
Yay, the Dolphin Fountain is breathing a sigh of relief!
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» on 01.30.10 @ 07:22 PM
Looks like Cameron Douglas is turning rat. That means he’ll be welcome at a Federal Bureau of Prisons camp like the one at Schuylkill FCI where big time financial scammer Joe Nacchio is doing his six years partying 24/7. In fact, given that Cameron Douglas’ case is out of New York city that makes the Federal prison camp at Schuylkill FCI a likely destination.
Read the post by a recent former inmate at the Federal prison camp at Schuylkill FCI:
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» on 01.31.10 @ 11:30 AM
This is very sad - tragic- I’m sorry for the pain the Douglas family must be in. I pray that the time off the streets will bring him back to his real, healed self.
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» on 02.01.10 @ 12:19 PM
Remember when this clown tried to run down one of my people? Say hi to Bubba in the big house!
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» on 02.05.10 @ 01:22 PM
If he’s an EX Montecito resident, why should we care? For that matter, why should we care anyway, except for the celebirty watchers among us.
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