Pulitzer heir in the slammer, again!
Tags: Bob Leidy, Christopher Leidy, drug court, hydrocodone, Lilly Pulitzer, Liza Pulitzer
| Wednesday 25 February 2009 4:59 pm
The grandson of clothier Lilly Pulitzer is back behind bars this week after failing a court-mandated drug test earlier this month, according to court records.
He’s undergoing monthly urine tests because of a drug arrest in 2008.
Underwater photographer Christopher Pulitzer Leidy, son of Liza Pulitzer and Palm Beach old guard stalwart Bob Leidy, spent Monday and Tuesday in the county slammer.
He’s going back for two more days Thursday.
“I asked to take a break today because I hate that place,” Christopher Leidy told Page2Live. “It sucks being in jail. I sit around and try to keep to myself. They put me with other drug people. Just when I’m trying to get away from that reputation.”
Leidy disputed the county court’s record that his sample came back positive.
“It was borderline,” he said.
His stay in a county jail is Leidy’s second in the seven months he’s been on conditional release. He went in for two days in August for a similar violation.
The 27-year-old has been arrested five times in Florida since 2001, according to FDLE records, including once at FSU for trespassing and resisting arrest; in West Palm for possession of drug paraphernalia and a forged or stolen driver license and boating under the influence; and in Palm Beach for possession of drugs.
That latest scrape with the law a year ago led to his being placed in a drug court program for which Leidy needs to stay clean until May or face a lengthy sentence. The court usually allows suspects battling an addiction to fail one or several tests before doling out a more severe punishment.
According to Leidy’s Palm Beach arrest report in March, Palm Beach cops found him in a car parked alongside the beach near Worth Avenue. They searched his Chevy Tahoe and found several pills of the highly-addictive hydrocodone and pot.
Leidy’s lawyer didn’t comment.
what a punk!!!
He is not a punk- He has an addiction and needs help-
…AA and All these recovery programs are hopeless revolving doors that want to stay that way. They have about a 95% failure-Recidivism rate.
They have been doing 12 step-based programs for over 50 years with no significant changes.
They labeled this kind of problem a “disease” instead of calling what it is, bad personal choices for 2 reasons. #1 To create false pity for the “patient” and #2 Most importantly to qualify for isurance program payments so that all the OK people have to pay over and over again for these bums.
Of course, a program that is proven to fail, is great for business in that you know these idiots will come back over and over for a treatment that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy but is PROVEN to fail.
The programs, most of them, are 28 days not because that works, its because that’s when insurance stops paying.
AA is a scam that does not work. Google - Alcoholics Anonymous Scam - you may be shocked by what you find.
Bottom line:
You cannot help someone who wallows in pity but does not have the guts nor made the absolute decision to help themselves.
AA takes everyone back over and over again for yet another group hug…..feels good….but its a culture of failure and actually supports lifelong addiction for at least 95% of its people….its alleged less than 5 in 100 are considered “successful” in AA.
All this is my opinion based on extensive research and my experience with “addicts” who keep doing this over and over and over again.
Oh no! He had a prescription drug that is doled out like candy in this country, and a plant that is essentially harmless - especially when compared to all the super potent mind-numbing concoctions available legally. How can we let this evil villain roam the streets wielding these weapons of minimal effect?!? Call the Pentagon!
How can a drug test be “borderline”? I would REALLY like to know.
Seriously Come ON! hydrocodone and pot!? go get some real criminals! I get more wasted on tequila! I think everyone would agree!
I wonder if the Pulizers will name a print after him.
Yes.
Most agree its crazy for Pot not to be legal.
And Hydrocodone, etc., along with things like Prozac, Klonopin, Xanax,Oxycontin etc….are allegedly given out by wacko-criminal licensed doctors like they are jelly-beans, and the insurance system pays for it.
But the guy was on court order Urine Testing for a 2008 drug arrest, according to the article, so its pretty much a bonehead move.
Plus, his printed comments make no sense and like most idiot-addicts , it semms that everyone and everything but themselves, the real problem, gets blamed for their abuse-problems.
They put him in with junkies because he is a junkie. Jst one with money.
He’s a little mom’s boy, who needs to go to jail, he’s got a real purdy mouth……theu will love his punk ass there.
I HOPE HIS PARENTS DO NOT BLAME THEMSELVES FOR HIS DECISIONS. AT 27, HE’S OLD ENOUGH TO DECIDE WHAT’S RIGHT AND WRONG. AND HE WILL, WE HE CHOOSES TO, PERIOD!
If it werent for the fact that his family is well known none of you commenting would even give a shit let it go write about something that matters there are thousands of people doing much worse things out there talk about them
TCFR- in answer to you question about Pulitzer”s
naming a print after him ?
How about a black and white 10 point finger print pattern?
It would really set him aside from “the druggies” he is
housed with.
Maybe it would appeal to his Palm Beach vanity.
“Huh?,” indeed. Are you aware that you can have such minor complications from withdrawal as, oh, I don’t know.. DEATH? Clearly Mr. ‘Huh?’, you have never had the DTs. How about withdrawal from opiates — of which, by the way, hydrocodone is one? Didn’t think so. (And yes, I’m going to assume you’re a man. And probably making quite a bit of money from health insurance are you? Oh don’t even get me started on that.)
As for your comments about AA, where exactly did you do all this “research” you write about? AA is not making money off ANYONE. They are, “self supporting through [their] own contributions,” i.e., a basket is passed during meetings. And they certainly don’t charge anyone’s insurance! Alcoholics drink. Before AA, there was NO adequate cure for alcoholism. So what is they only have, as you claim (I’ll just go along with your numbers since they’re so “well-researched”), they only have a 5% success rate. Those 5% of people who actually work a program get to have a life worth living that they wouldn’t have had without AA.