Reagan Grandson Sentenced to Drug Program

Cameron Michael Reagan, the grandson of former President Ronald Reagan and son of talk radio personality Michael Reagan, was sentenced Monday to 90 days in a drug rehabilitation program after he was found with a small amount of marijuana.

The 22-year-old Van Nuys man was also ordered by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michelle Rosenblatt to attend anger management counseling at Calvary Ranch, a Christian residential drug and alcohol treatment center near San Diego, and not to associate with drug users or sellers.

“Mr. Reagan, I hope you will take this seriously,” Rosenblatt said.

Reagan could have received up to three years in state prison for violating the probation he had been under since his 1999 conviction for receiving stolen property. But Deputy Dist. Atty. Lea Purwin D’Agostino said she believed that Monday’s sentence was fair.

“I didn’t want him treated differently from anybody else just because he comes from a famous family,” D’Agostino said. “Our major concern is that Mr. Reagan is never with us in court again.”

Michael and his wife, Colleen, were in the courtroom but made no statement. Michael Reagan is the son of Ronald Reagan and Reagan’s first wife, Jane Wyman.

“The family is grateful for how things turned out,” said Cameron Reagan’s lawyer, Ronald Lewis.

According to court documents, Reagan was convicted in 1999 for a November 1998 incident that involved burglarizing cars. At the time of his 1998 arrest, he already was on probation for vandalism for trying to scratch his name into a store window.

Pleading for leniency, Reagan’s lawyer in the 1999 case told the judge that Reagan had suffered from attention deficit disorder since childhood, which made him fail at college and unable to hold down a job. At one point, Reagan was penniless and living on the streets, according to court documents.

“He is just a boy who has a lifelong emotional problem that needs treatment,” attorney Donald Wager said during the 1999 hearing.

On Monday, Lewis said Reagan “has been working at an undisclosed location” and added that his client, who was found with less than 1 ounce of marijuana, may return to college after his rehabilitation program, which he began Monday.