Posted on 05/29/2005 8:47:19 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was free Sunday on $15,000 bond after being arrested on alcohol and drug charges, Beverly Hills police said.
Beverly Hills Police Sgt. John Edmundson said officers found an illegal drug in Stone's Mercedes when he was pulled over Friday night at a checkpoint set up for the Memorial Day weekend, CNN reported. Police did not identify the reported illegal substance.
Stone was released Saturday morning after his arrest on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated and on a drug possession charge, Edmundson said.
The filmmaker, who won Best Director Oscars for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), was previously arrested in 1999 on alcohol and drug charges. He agreed to enter a rehabilitation program as part of a plea bargain.
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So...this is his second strike. One more strike and he cannot make any more movies?
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He was probably set up by the CIA. Ya---- that's the ticket. Better get Jim Garrison on the case. ;~))
The filmmaker, who's most recent film, Alexander, garnered six Razzie Nominations this year...
Was this a solid, liquid, or a gas he was caught with?
A powder, a fungai, or blotter paper?
If bullshit were an illegal substance, Stone would be serving ten or twelve life sentences.
I blame Bush, Halliburton, the CIA and the phenomenon of conservative talk radio! ;-P
He's a shmuck, but this is just a DUI. Big deal.
A good example of Hollywood values.
They don't say what the drug was, but I'm guessing it's not oxycontin.
It may compound his previous charge. He was probably on probation.
My thoughts exactly...wonder what Stone was taking when he made his last movie ..Alexander the Great?
Narcotics are expensive. Think of all the poor people that money could have helped. It could have been used to reduce the national deficit.
Hopefully, most on Free Republic would agree that a DUI is a BIG deal. And use of narcotics definitly explains alot in Stone's thinking.
You just know Oliver Stone had to be smashed out of his mind and behind the wheel, for him to get arrested in Beverly Hills. The Beverly Hills Police probably saved his life.
In order to think like a good liberal, you pretty much need to be stoned.
I certainly argree that DUI's are big deals... it is one thing for a person to take drugs and kill himself, but another to get behind the wheel and injure or kill , innocent people who come into their drunken path.
I hear it releases their creative liberal BS Juices.
Naw. We couldn't be that lucky.
"Stone continued to be an avid cannabis consumer for all his award-winning career, with no further legal problems until 1999, when he entered a drug rehab program to avoid prison. Stone had been busted for driving with his blood-alcohol level over the limit, and cops had found hash in his car, along with muscle-relaxants and a few other pharmaceuticals."
"Prosecutors agreed to drop the felony drug charges if Stone entered a rehab program. Like the hundreds of thousands of other Americans forced into treatment for their "marijuana addiction," Stone cynically did the program and then merrily continued on his toking ways."
-- cannabisculture.com/articles/2858.html
Deja vu all over again.
So they kept the DUI misdemeanor charge and dropped the felony drug posession charges?
Must be good to be the king.
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