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This booking photo released by the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department shows former 1970s teen idol Leif
Garrett, 48, after he was arrested after allegedly carrying
heroin into a Los Angeles subway station. (AP Photo/Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.)
Former 1970s teen idol Leif Garrett has been charged with
felony possession of heroin after his arrest in a Los Angeles
subway station.
The 48-year-old singer and actor was charged Friday and is
free on bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned on February 24.
Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says
deputies confronted Garrett at the downtown Metro Red Line
station on Monday. They say he admitted having black tar
heroin in his shoe.
Garrett was also arrested for heroin possession at an LA
subway station in 2006.
A phone message left for publicist Barbara Papageorge was not
immediately returned, and it was not clear if Garrett had an
attorney.
Garrett had a handful of hit songs and was a constant cover
boy on teen magazines in the 1970s.
