Child star Culkin pleads guilty to having marijuana

FORMER child star Macaulay Culkin pleaded guilty yesterday to misdemeanour charges of possession of medication without a prescription and marijuana and was given a deferred sentence.

Culkin, star of the 1990 movie Home Alone, was arrested on September 17 after Oklahoma City police stopped a car in which he was a passenger. Officers found over half an ounce of marijuana and several tablets of Xanax, a prescription medication used to treat depression and panic disorders, court records show.

Culkin, wearing a gray suit and a white open-collared shirt, entered the pleas before Special Judge Russell Hall, who gave Culkin a one-year deferred sentence on each of the charges.