<\/img> Former teen idol Leif Garrett pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to one felony count of heroin possession. <\/p>\n
The ’70s heartthrob was arrested Feb. 1 by L.A. County sheriff\u2019s deputies patrolling the Metro subway station at Pershing Square downtown. <\/p>\n
Garrett, 48, was about to board a train and was sweating and shaking, deputies said. He told them he was hiding black tar heroin in his shoe, they said. <\/p>\n
Garrett was released Feb. 3 after posting $10,000 bond, said district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison. He is scheduled to appear back in court March 16. <\/p>\n
The troubled former actor-singer has a history of drug-related offenses. The district attorney\u2019s complaint cited\u00a0 Garrett\u2019s convictions on three previous charges, two in 2006 and one in 2001.<\/p>\n
\n[Updated at 11:24 a.m.:<\/strong> Garrett’s attorney Andrew Flier called the accusations \u201cout of character\u201d for the former star, who he said had been turning his life around the last few years.<\/p>\n \n\u201cHe\u2019s completely stayed out of trouble, he\u2019s changed his life a lot, he\u2019s taking care of his mother,\u201d Flier said.] <\/p>\n — Amina Khan<\/p>\n Photo: A booking photo released Feb. 3 by the Los Angeles Former teen idol Leif Garrett pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to one felony count of heroin possession. The ’70s heartthrob was arrested Feb. 1 by L.A. County sheriff\u2019s deputies patrolling the Metro subway station at Pershing Square downtown. Garrett, 48, was about to board a train and was sweating and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCounty Sheriff’s Department showing former 1970s teen idol Leif Garrett, 48,
\nafter he was arrested. Credit: Associated Press<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"