Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O'Neal was released without bail on Monday, following her cocaine-possession arrest in downtown Manhattan the night before.
The Oscar-winning actress entered no plea as she was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance. She is due back in court July 28. Police found two bags of cocaine in O'Neal's pants pocket when she was arrested around 7:30 p.m. Sunday on the Lower East Side, according to a court complaint. Officers saw O'Neal accept the drug from a man during a routine drug sweep, police said.
According to a New York Post source, O'Neal told police that the drug buy was for work. "I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part as a junkie," she allegedly said.
O'Neal appears regularly on the cable television series "Rescue Me" and was the youngest person to win an Oscar for her role in 1973's "Paper Moon." She has publicly battled drug addiction in the past, and chronicled her struggles in her 2005 memoir, "A Paper Life." O'Neal has since said she is sober.
Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O'Neal was released without bail on Monday, following her cocaine-possession arrest in downtown Manhattan the night before.
