IF your mother committed suicide, you found out that you were a stolen baby, your girlfriend dumps you, your father or the man you think is your father turns out not to be your father and leaves you with Mrs Huber's sister, and you find out that your real name is Dana not zach, you would smoke pot too
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Desperate Housewives' Actor Arrested on Marijuana Charge
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Published: May 19, 2005
When more than 17 million of the nation's television households last saw Zach Young, the sullen teenager burdened by secrets on the ABC show "Desperate Housewives," he was being abandoned, or so it seemed, by his sinister father. It was the latest blow in a plot that began with his mother's baffling suicide and continued with his father's descent into murder.
Cody Kasch is accused of smoking marijuana in the East Village.
Yesterday, however, real life itself took a distressing turn. The police announced that Cody Kasch, 17, the actor who plays Zach, had been arrested on a charge of smoking marijuana in public on an East Village street. Mr. Kasch was released by the police and has returned to his home in California.
His manager, Scott Bankston, said that the arrest was a mistake and that Mr. Kasch did not smoke marijuana. He said Mr. Kasch was in the wrong place at the wrong time on "his very first trip to New York."
"He was with a group of kids and one of them was smoking pot, or was about to smoke a joint, when an undercover police officer arrested all of them," Mr. Bankston said. He expressed confidence that the charges would be dropped.
"He's very upset about all this," Mr. Bankston said.
The arrest of Mr. Kasch on the misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession occurred at 10:50 p.m. outside an apartment building on East First Street, a block north of Houston Street. He was given a desk appearance ticket, typically handed out for minor offenses, and told to return to Manhattan Criminal Court on June 20.
Mr. Kasch's arrest comes at a critical time for ABC, which, thanks to "Desperate Housewives" and other shows, has attracted new audiences and critical praise. Mr. Kasch was in Manhattan for what are known as the annual television "upfronts," at which network executives present to advertisers their new fall schedules. An ABC spokeswoman for "Desperate Housewives" declined to comment on the arrest.
