Brad Renfro in LA drugs arrest

Actor Brad Renfro, was arrested in a drug sweep by Los Angeles undercover detectives rounding up suspected heroin buyers, police said on Friday.

Renfro, 23, was one of 14 people detained on suspicion of attempting to buy heroin during Thursday's sting operation by the Los Angeles Police Department, said spokesman Lt. Paul Vernon.

Renfro's arrest was the latest in a string of run-ins with law enforcement during the past several years.

The actor was charged in 1998 with possession of cocaine and marijuana, but avoided jail time in a plea deal.

He was sentenced to two years' probation in January 2001 on charges of trying to steal a yacht in Fort Lauderdale

He was arrested in May 2001 and charged with underage drinking. The next year, he was charged with driving without a license and public intoxication. Both violated terms of his probation. Renfro was ordered into an alcohol rehabilitation program in March 2002.

Renfro made his film debut at age 12 as the young boy who knew too much in the 1994 thriller "The Client," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon. And he gained notice the following year as the best friend of a young AIDS patient in "The Cure."

He also played a young Brad Pitt in the 1996 film "Sleepers" and starred with Ian McKellen as a teenager who falls under the spell of an aging Nazi war criminal in 1998's "Apt Pupil." More recently, he was cast as a battle-scarred U.S. Army soldier returning home from the war in Iraq in the upcoming indie film "Nobody's Hero."

Renfro is free on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday

Brad Renfro Arrest Photo

By Fabien Montique posted time [ 7:29 AM]