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Not a month after Brad Renfro was splashed across the front page of the LA Times being cuffed and arrested for attempting to buy heroin off a downtown corner, 1970s pop idol and longtime substance abuser Leif Garrett's even more unflattering mugshot is featured in their pages after the authorities picked him up for chasing the very same dragon:

Seventies teen idol Leif Garrett was charged this morning with possession of heroin after his arrest in the Pershing Square subway station over the weekend. [...]


Garrett, 44, was being held without bail because he was also detained on a bench warrant for allegedly violating the terms of his probation for a previous offense, Los Angeles County sheriff's and district attorney's officials said.

According to deputies, Garrett was detained after he was found to be without a ticket to ride the rail system. A check turned up suspected narcotics and the warrant for his arrest, officials said.

Garrett was booked and assigned to the jail Sunday.

It seems the "human dumping ground" that is downtown LA has now widened its membership guidelines to include ex-pin-up boys wasted by the effects of their all-consuming horse habits. We can only pray that others avoid a similar fate; the last thing we need to see when cracking open the morning paper are the drug-ravaged faces of the non-Justin Timberlake members of 'NSYNC, cuffed and spread-legged against a cop car in their last public bit of synchronized choreography.