Reagan’s Grandson Sentenced to Drug Rehab

Cameron Michael Reagan, the troubled grandson of the former U.S. president 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 associate with drug users or sellers. “Mr. Reagan, I hope you will take this seriously,” Rosenblatt said.

Reagan, who had violated probation after his 1999 conviction for receiving stolen property, could have received up to three years in state prison. But Deputy Dist. Atty. Lea Purwin D’Agostino said she believed the penalty 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.

Reagan’s parents, Michael and Colleen Reagan, sat in the courtroom and declined comment. Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is a syndicated talk radio show host.

“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 after a November 1998 incident that involved burglarizing cars. At the time of his arrest, he was on probation for vandalism for allegedly trying to scratch his name into a store window.

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

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

On Monday, Lewis said Reagan “has been working at an undisclosed location” and added that the young man, who was found with less than 1 ounce of marijuana, may also go back to college after he completes his rehab program, which he would begin immediately.