Reagan grandson arrested in Van Nuys [Updated]

Former President Reagan’s grandson is in jail this morning after police arrested him at his parents’ house in Van Nuys, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Cameron Reagan, 31, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail at Van Nuys Jail, said LAPD Officer Bruce Borihanh.

Officers responded to a panic button call on the 4700 block of Allot Avenue about 12:20 a.m. and found Reagan exiting a rear door. He was drinking and “very uncooperative,” Borihanh said. Police did not know who was home at the time or who pushed the panic button.

[Updated at 9:11 a.m.: Reagan's father, Michael, said his son did not know that he had tripped an alarm when he arrived home with friends early this morning. When Cameron Reagan heard a commotion outside, he went outside and found the house surrounded by police, Michael Reagan said, according to the Associated Press.]

[Updated at 9:20 a.m.: Michael Reagan, who no longer lives in the home, said the alarm goes directly to the police station. “They surround the house with police cars because of who we are,” he told the AP, adding that his son did not understand what was happening and panicked. “There was a lot of misunderstanding at 1 a.m.”]

Cameron Reagan has had previous brushes with the law. In 2001, a judge ordered him to attend drug rehab and anger management after he was found with marijuana. In 1999, he was convicted of receiving stolen property. Earlier, he was convicted of vandalism.

Reagan has suffered from attention-deficit disorder since childhood, which attorneys in 2001 said caused him to drop out of college and made him unable to hold a job. At one point, according to court documents, Reagan was destitute and living on the streets.

Reagan is the son of Michael and Colleen Reagan. Michael Reagan, the adopted son of the former president and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and a Fox News contributor.

-- Seema Mehta

Photo: Cameron Reagan in November 2000. Credit: Getty Images

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Comments

[Map XPRT]

Just a minor correction. That address you gave on Allot St, would be in Sherman Oaks, not Van Nuys.

[Jonathan Easterly]

If my dad was a Fox News contributor I too would be angry and searching for drugs. Maybe his dad should contribute less to the retards at Fox and more to his son's well being.

[K]

Can't you just drop the adopted label? After 50 some years you still need to clarify that point? Michael was Ronald Reagan's son - period.

[Jayceezy]

Why do we need to know the address of where this guy was arrested, which also happens to be the private residence of a public figure? Let's summarize this story that slimes Ronald Reagan: grandson arrested, drinking, was homeless and can't hold a job, dropout, previous arrests, father was adopted by Reagan and "first wife" so we are reminded of his divorce, and the mention of Fox News. This story is typical LA Times agenda, the only thing missing is comparing Reagan to Stalin again.

[Tiny Tim]

This kid and his pop have no DNA ties to Regan. The President showed the father some love by adopting him, but that doesn't mean than any of these people have a right to bring down Ronnie's name. These guys have used it only in name and never in spirit.

[yankee]

WHO CARES

[yankee]

WHO CARES

[Bobby]

ADD. The pharmaceutical companies diagnosis of a spoiled rotten punk. All these kids need is a swift kick to the cranium. This kid would make a better Kennedy.

[Frank Black]

sounds about right

[Russ Beal]

Another example of "family values". Good parenting Michael.

[Robert]

"Reagan has suffered from attention-deficit disorder since childhood, which attorneys in 2001 said caused him to drop out of college and made him unable to hold a job. At one point, according to court documents, Reagan was destitute and living on the streets."

Are you kidding me?! You might as well tell us that the fact that he lived in California was attributed to his downfall also. ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia these learning disabilities doesn't hamper success. MOTIVATION hampers success. Lack of structure hampers success. Bad parenting hampers success but ADD, I cry foul!

I barely graduated from High School because I too was diagnosed with ADD. My grades in math during high school were D, D, D, and F my senior year but I got my stuff together.

And guess what? I not only have been a Math teacher for the past 17 years but I've also been a Vice Principal for 6. I've gone on and received not only my BA in Computer Mathematics but also my Masters in Educational Administration.

So to put this lame excuse that he suffers from ADD is a cop out. Trust me there are more direct reasons for this guys downfall and ADD is a far and distant one.

[raphael a]

If you live in Southern California, work in media and make over six figures a year, don't name your kid Cameron.
dailyraphirmations.com

[John Musselman]

Arrested for resisting arrest? Not even that, for "suspicion" of resisting arrest? What on earth is that? What were they going to arrest him for that he was under suspicion of resisting?

[Don]

ADD caused him to drop out of college and made him unable to hold a job? That's a good one.

[wideeyed]

Sounds like a real american criminal, very dangerous, drinking on private property and being uncooperative are such nasty crimes. ARRESTED FOR "RESISTING ARREST"? There's a Orwelian turn.

Actually Mr Reagan sounds like a lost soul. Perhaps it's the belly of Fox news reality.

[No mas illegals]

Jonathan Easterly wrote:

"If my dad was a Fox News contributor I too would be angry and searching for drugs. Maybe his dad should contribute less to the retards at Fox and more to his son's well being."

Hmm....maybe Al Gore should take that same advice. Last time I heard, his son was not doing so well either.

[Pupster]

Typical family values spouting blowhard Michael Reagan lecturing to others but can't even deal with his own family.

[ChrisS]

I see. He was arrested for resisting arrest. What charge was leveled against him to begin with? You cannot arrest someone just for resisting arrest if there was no charge in the first place!

Being uncooperative to the police is NOT a crime. Being belligerent to the police is NOT a crime. Please tell me what the original charge was or this is just another case of heavy handed tactics.

The reason they were there was that the panic button got pressed on the alarm system. That could have been an accident. Again, unless the officer said, "you are under arrest for _________." there can be no resisting.

[janejoad]

Perhaps if the father had spent less time trying to promote himself as a Reagan and spent more time actually parenting, the kid would have had a better chance of overcoming. Since when is ADD an excuse not to work? Half the world has ADD. But I'm sure eventually the kid will find a way to make a living off his name like his father, instead of channeling his energy in a positive way and doing some real good in the world. Maybe a reality show will come along for him.

[happyHBmom]

Ah, so much for the "it's all in the parenting" and "conservative ethics would save the world" arguments. So does this guy's dad think liberals indoctrinated his child at birth and made him a criminal?

[Sean]

I have ADHD and I have my isht together. That excuse is BS. Way to honor your family.

[savvydude]

Leave it to a left-wing hack to blame this guy's foolish activities on Fox News. Geez, what a waste of a post. Here's a better suggestion: stop posting putrid comments online. Michael Reagan and his wife has probably done more to help their son than you would ever know.

You should be ashamed.

[No mas illegals]

Posted by: Jonathan Easterly

"If my dad was a Fox News contributor I too would be angry and searching for drugs. Maybe his dad should contribute less to the retards at Fox and more to his son's well being.'

Yeah, I'm sure you said the same thing when Al Gore's wonderful son was arrested, doing over 100 miles an hour on the freeway with a car full of drugs he couldn't produce scrips for.

I guess I would be on drugs to if my father were getting filthy rich promoting his global warming scam.

Look up the definition of the word "hypocrite" when you get the chance Jonathan. Report back when you figure it out...

[julie]

It is not necessary to say Michael Reagan was adopted. It's not necessary to say it once, and it's not necessary to say it every single time you run an article about him. It's demeaning, makes him and every other adoptee a "less than" family member. And no, I wasn't adopted.

I know a woman -- an adult -- who was orphaned in Korea and adopted here, and she still calls herself an orphan. I met someone else (an adult caucasian woman) who called herself the same thing. Isn't it enough that they feel less-than, without everyone else adding to it?

[brian]

how can they arrest you for resisting arrest? don't you have to commit
a crime before they start trying to arrest you?