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C.S. High: C.S.I. Actor Gary Dourdan Busted for Drugs Outside Coachella

By Corey Mitchell

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue - Steve McCroskey as played by Lloyd Bridges in Airplane. C.S.I. actor Gary Dourdan (real name: Robert Gary Durdin) ran afoul of the law early Monday morning on a Palm Springs street. The 41-year-old actor apparently had pulled his vehicle over onto the wrong side of Sunny Dunes Road west off of Gene Autry Trail and was discovered asleep in the driver's seat around 5:15 a.m. A Palm Springs patrol officer approached the sleeping Dourdan, followed the evidence, and discovered a veritable cache of drugs in the actor's vehicle. Palm Springs authorities have stated that Dourdan had Ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, and unnamed prescription drugs in the vehicle. Dourdan had spent the weekend at the 2008 Coachella Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field in nearby Indio...continue to full post

Full post as published by Hollywood on Trial on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).