DOUGLAS’ GIRLFRIEND PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG CHARGE
CAMERON DOUGLAS’ girlfriend has pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetam= ine, six months after she was arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs to= the troubled actor.
Kelly Sott, 31, was taken into police custody in August (09) after she = was caught attempting to hand over the drugs, hidden in an electric tooth= brush, to Michael Douglas’ 32-year-old son while he was under house arres= t at his mother Diandra Douglas’ New York apartment.
Security guards subsequently searched Sott’s bag and found the toothbru= sh and 19 tiny bags "containing a brownish substance that appeared to be = heroin".
Sott, who claims she was unaware of the drugs, was then taken back to t= he room she had shared with Douglas at Manhattan’s Hotel Gansevoort, wher= e police discovered a stash of heroin, crystal meth and marijuana.
On Monday (22Feb10), Sott pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of po= ssessing methamphetamine, which carries a maximum one year prison sentenc= e, reports TMZ.com.
Douglas was busted in a drugs raid at the Hotel Gansevoort on 3 August = (09) and was charged with possessing methamphetamines with intent to dist= ribute.
Reports suggest the It Runs In The Family star had been plotting to mov= e approximately $18,000 (=C2=A312,000)-worth of crystal meth from Califor= nia to New York to sell when an undercover informant alerted the U.S. Dru= g Enforcement Administration of Douglas’ involvement.
Douglas pleaded guilty to drug trafficking last month (Jan10) and faces= a minimum 10-year prison sentence if convicted.
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