'Party of Five' Star Kidnapped, Forced to 'Smoke Dope'

By PopEater Staff Posted Jun 17th 2010 09:42AM

Actor Jeremy London -- who starred in TV's 'Party of Five' -- found himself in a terrifying situation this month when he was kidnapped by two men and forced to smoke drugs, according to a RadarOnline report. The details of the incident are quite unbelievable, and two men have been charged so far. After the jump, how the harrowing events played out.

Update: The district attorney's office said a man in custody, Brandon Adams, 26, of Palm Springs, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping London and forcing him to use drugs, the Associated Press reports. Adams remains in jail after a late Thursday arraignment on five charges including kidnapping and theft.

According to the Radar report, the 37-year-old London was changing a flat tire in Palm Springs, California, on June 10 when two men pulled over, initially claiming they wanted to help him. Things then took a quick turn, and London found himself being forcibly kidnapped by the two men.

The men then drove London in his own car, holding him at gunpoint the entire time.

Five hours later, London somehow escaped, but according to what he told the police, the kidnapping was just the beginning of his scary and wild night.

"He told officers [during the kidnapping] that he was forced to smoke dope and then purchase booze and hand it out in a gang area of Palm Springs," Sergeant Steve Douglas of the Palm Springs Police Department told RadarOnline.com.

Two men, whose identities haven't been revealed, have been arrested and charged over the incident -- and it was all by chance. A police officer had driven by the two men while they were helping London change his tire, and was later able to identify them.

The drug portion of this story is doubly serious for London, who has battled drug addiction in the past. In September of 2009, he checked into rehab to fight his prescription pill addiction.

Tags: jeremy london, party of five

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Thursday 17 June

By lisa

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What a crock!

By mbrul

yeah, I'll use this phoney story when they test me for drugs at work.

By BTDT

Sounds like something a twelve year old would make up.

By sarah

Okay, let me get this straight..The cops have charged two people because they were spotted by a cop helping him at the time, and they had a gun that they held on him while taking him to a gang hangout..I know it really does sound fishy but HECK! I think I'd do as they said and smoke the dope too!

Friday 18 June

By themeeker

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At 200 per ounce, I don't think any criminal is that generous or that stupid. Something stinks with this whole story.

By mw

This story sounds a little fishy to me.

By Rob

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Who?? Oh, the has been that was the doper who brought the "party" to the Party of Five.

By trmnatr2

Forced to smoke weed.yeah,that sounds right.

By Lita

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The story didn't say weed, moron. That's not the only drug that is smoked. (Perhaps if you weren't such a heavy user, you'd know that.)

By Elizabeth

Lita, it does say he was forced to smoke "dope" in the article. So, isn't that the same as "weed"?

By Marit Londeaux

Elizabeth: In my neck of the woods, Los Angeles, when someone refers to smoking dope they usually mean smoking heroin or "chasing the devil." So it doesn't always mean weed.

By s

Dope, is like major drugs, heroin and cocaine, not just weed. The term dope was used for major drugs like that before people began useing the term for weed.

By Cory

Now he has an excuse when they find methamphetamine in his urine.

By LARGEHUMAN

I was kidnapped and forced to do drugs, and the moon is made out of cheese. Really I swear...

By Sharon

Just laughing so hard :D

By Henry

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By Mark

LOL, you're right my friends did this to me the other night!!! I swear it was against my will.

By Donna

This has gone too far, for too long now. Theres no reason for aol to act this way.
I will be in contact,, again, with your supervisor today.
Its one thing to censor,, but to do this repeatedly, only to me,, is as unfair as it gets. AOL, Is not doing their job for me. I am a customer, and will be in touch again, today, with youre supervisor.

#5 time trying. I agree with you totally.

By KP

The same was done to me earlier when I tried to post, said would send email to confirm but they didnt..my subject was censureship also. Not sure this one will make it either.

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