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CNN's Quest (Allegedly) Gets the Meth Out

CNN's Richard Quest arrested todayCNN International's business travel specialist, Richard Quest, was arrested early this morning and booked on a misdemeanor charge of drug possession after police found him wandering around Central Park at the Kevin Spacey ungodly hour of 3:40am - way past the park's curfew.

UPDATE: According to some kinky reports, Quest also had a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals -- and a sex toy in his shoe. How Dita Von Teese of him!

Police were escorting Quest out of the park when he voluntarily told them, "I have meth in my pocket." He was then searched and indeed, was holding a small amount of methamphetamine in a Ziploc bag.

CNN had no immediate comment.

UPDATE: Quest was arraigned this afternoon in Manhattan's Criminal Court. Judge Anthony Ferrara told the reporter that if he attends counseling and therapy for the next six months that his case will be dismissed, but warned that if he failed to do so, he would be back in court and on his way to jail.




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46. CNN is a cable TV station of highly perverted and indiscriminate sex crazed gay people, they are all on drugs and breaking the law. Why are these people getting paid thousand of dollars every month to pervert justice and take illegal drugs? Why is a rgay eporter from CNN soliciting sex with men in Central Park at 3a.m. ? These things are morally wrong and these idiots are corrupting and destroying everything. CNN is finishd for me. I will never watch the dirty news channel any more .

Posted at 11:36AM on Apr 19th 2008 by Disgusted With CNN

47. Ok Ben and the others, please read: this guy Richard Quest is a homosexual crystal freak who is always crusing for sex in the park and the subways. Anderson Cooper is also gay and is always in the gay gay bars in NYC. You guys need to learn about the facts of life!

Posted at 11:37AM on Apr 19th 2008 by Matt

48. I am appalled that Quest and Cooper and other gays are working at CNN and taking drugs and having sex and breaking the laws. They should all be fired.

Posted at 11:42AM on Apr 19th 2008 by BDH

49. BOYCOTT CNN, STOP WATCHING THEIR TASTELESS AND DISRESPECTFUL NEWS SHOWS. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON. SAY NO TO DRUGS. SAY NO TO CNN.

Posted at 11:47AM on Apr 19th 2008 by Sharon from Wisconsin

50. This is really the pits! Now we cannot trust anything in the news. The reporters are high on drugs, tweaking like crazy and cruising the parks and public restrooms for sex like tom cats in heat. Way to go CNN!!!

Posted at 11:48AM on Apr 19th 2008 by NY taxi driver

51. Richard Quest has no respect for the law, he has no respect for other people and he has no respect for himself. He was granted a US Visa only on the condition of working for CNN, not for buying crystal meth and soliciting for sex in Central Park. He is a criminal and he should be kicked out of the USA immediately!

Posted at 11:53AM on Apr 19th 2008 by Angry Viewer

52. WHAT GIVES RICHARD QUEST AND ANDERSON COOPER BOTH OF WHO ARE HOMOSEXUALS THE RIGHT TO FLAUNT THEMSELVES ON TV, TAKING ILLEGAL DUGS AND HAVING SEX WITH PEOPLE AGAINST THE LAW IN PUBLIC???

WHO DO THESE POEPLE THINK THEY ARE? THEY SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR THEIR CRIMES

Posted at 12:08PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Lance

53. CNN should fire Quests's ass right now!!!! We dont need to see crystal meth freaks on TV!!!!!

Posted at 12:07PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Staten Ferry

54. Richard Quest, what a stupid name for a stupid person, it's as bad as another sick joke about the man who urinates through a hole in his face when he pulls his skin back on his neck. His name was Richard Cranium.

Posted at 12:20PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Red Skelton

55. Rivhard Quest also uses amyl nitrate for having anal sex with black men and takes a lot of cocaine to get an erection. He is always buying these illegal drugs at gay clubs in NYC.

Posted at 12:18PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Clubkid

56. Wonderful , CNN pays thousands of dollars each year to a drug addicted gay crystal meth tweaker so he can buy drugs in Central Park at 3.30 in the mroning and have anonymous sex in public bathrooms with horny black and Puerto rican men. Wow, CNN you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel if this is the best woyu can do by hiring a nutcase like Richard Quest and put his ugly face on the idiot tube. No wonder TV station ratings are going tdown the toilet!

Posted at 12:31PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Milton Berle

57. Matt and others, your allegations about Anderson are ridiculous. Anderson is in a LTR, he is a wonderful person, handsome and hardworking, brilliant and well brought up. Anyone saying otherwise does not know him, or is a jealous detractor.

Also, to whoever... any gay man coming out of the depths of Central Park after 1am alone has been in the ramble... a secluded area within the park where men go to have anonymous sex virtually every night (except when it is raining or snowing). Wake up!

Posted at 3:01PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Ben

58. Meth addicts in da Big City. I thought that was a countryfied addiction. He doesn't even have them there face sores ! I think he is good at CNN. Hope he gets better in Rehab . "They tried to make me go to Rehab, I said, no, no, no ...." Just a little Amy Winehouse for 'ya !

Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Bunnie

59. What's next on CNN after this sad revelation about drug addicted crystal meth tweaking news reporters? How about porngraphy obsessed weathermen? Or how about Intrernet stalking pedophile reporters? Or maybe some heroin injecting talk show hosts? The world is a truly disgusting place of perversion, sadism and machochism. If there is a God (and I honestlly doubt it) then he has been unforgivably negligent in his duties to protect humanity. CNN should be sued for misleading the nation with this immoral conduct disguised a TV news reporting and for insulting viewer's intelligence with creeps like this dreadul effeminate man Quest.

Posted at 2:28PM on Apr 19th 2008 by I'm a Londoner

60. Richard Old Boy......I guess those long days of travel and reporting are keeping you awake at night....well along with other things! Maybe the next report with be titles 'The Quest For Meth'....... Keep up the good work!

Posted at 1:33PM on Apr 20th 2008 by Dave in Amsterdam

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