Local News in Brief : Actor Begins Jail Term

Actor Dan Haggerty, best known as television’s Grizzly Adams, surrendered Monday in Los Angeles to begin serving a 90-day County Jail term for furnishing cocaine to two undercover police officers in 1984.

Haggerty, 43, was sentenced to jail in April, 1985, but was allowed by Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz to remain free while he appealed his conviction.

After exhausting the appeals process without having his conviction overturned, Haggerty was ordered to surrender in Munoz’s court to begin serving the jail term.

The judge’s clerk said Haggerty had applied for a work-furlough program in which he would be freed from custody in the daytime and return to the jail at night.