Cameron Douglas Pleads Guilty to Meth Rap

(AP)  The hard-luck son of Michael Douglas pleaded guilty on Wednesday to dealing large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine while holed up in a trendy Manhattan hotel where he was arrested last year.

Cameron Douglas, 31, told a judge that a New York contact first asked him if he could score the drugs in 2006. After that, "I began supplying on a regular basis."

Asked by a judge if he knew what he was doing was wrong, he replied, "Yes, your honor."

Prosecutors said Douglas had signed a plea agreement, but the details weren't disclosed.

In addition to conspiracy to distribute drugs, Douglas pleaded guilty to heroin possession - a charge stemming from allegations that his girlfriend tried to smuggle him the drug in an electric toothbrush while he was under house arrest.

He faces a minimum 10-year prison term at sentencing on April 27.

"I think he handled it well under the circumstances," defense attorney Nicholas DeFeis said after his jailed client's plea.

The son of the Oscar-winning actor was arrested July 28, 2009, at the trendy Hotel Gansevoort as part of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation.

A criminal complaint drawn up by a DEA agent last year said the allegations were based on information provided by three unnamed crystal meth users and dealers. The users - including someone who once worked for Cameron Douglas - had pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

Investigators say Douglas was paid tens of thousands of dollars for trafficking methamphetamine - what he referred to in intercepted phone calls as "pastry" or "bath salts." Cash and drugs were routinely exchanged from coast to coast through shippers like FedEx, the court papers said.

Cameron Douglas has acted in movies including 2003's "It Runs in the Family," starring his father and grandfather Kirk Douglas.

He also was arrested in California in 2007 on cocaine possession charges. His attorney then said the arresting officer didn't do his job properly.

[handrblock]

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:

http://fprison.wordpress.com

[h5mind]

Similar harsh sentences have been handed out ever since the pharmaceutical lobbyists helped sponsor mandatory minimum legislation in the 80's and 90's. Most of our country's more than 2.4 million citizens behind bars (plus 4 million more on parole) are incarcerated for non-violent and drug-related offenses. That number is higher than any other nation in the world, including Communist China. The puritanical among us may shout, "Serves them right!", but the reality is legal narcotics such as alcohol and cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands more each year. In the final analysis, the only truly just and impartial measure of criminality must include "actual damage or loss to person or property." On that basis, most of our jails and prisons would be emptied, only to be immediately replenished with military, business and government leaders and their fawning sycophants who foolilshly equate 'legal' with 'moral'.

[ibsteve2u]

I think there is a touch of that addiction to fame - to being the center of attention - that is on display when one of the privileged does something such as this.

A dealer is, after all, highly valued by his or her customers...I would imagine that the level of kissing-up is roughly equivalent to that which accompanies fame of other, somewhat more legitimate sorts.