Jun 21, 2018 - (AP) — The son of actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor in his Nebraska drug case. Twenty-four-year-old Hopper Penn and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Uma Von Wittkamp, were arrested during a traffic stop on April 4 on Interstate 80 in.
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Hamilton County, Neb. Sheriff's Office via AP LINCOLN, Neb. – Actor Hopper Penn and his girlfriend have been released from jail after they were arrested on drug charges in Nebraska. A jail dispatcher says the 24-year-old Penn and actress Uma Von Wittkamp, 26, were released Thursday after posting bond.
Penn is the son of Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn and House of Cards actress Robin Wright. He acted opposite Brad Pitt in the 2017 Netflix film War Machine.
Von Wittkamp played a role in the 2015 film short Endings, Inc. The Nebraska State Patrol says a trooper stopped the couple’s car Wednesday after they allegedly failed to signal on Interstate 80. The trooper says he found 14 grams of marijuana, four amphetamine pills and 3 grams of psychedelic mushrooms in the car. Hopper has struggled with addiction in the past. Ian Gavan, Getty Images He told The Evening Standard last year that he fell in with a “bad crowd” during his parents’ divorce, which was finalized in 2010.
His spiral apparently began a month after he moved to Los Angeles, when he was badly injured in a skateboarding accident and had to undergo surgery for bleeding on the brain. Penn has since admitted to using a variety of drugs, including methamphetamine, but said he sought treatment. “I went to rehab because I woke up in (the) hospital and my dad said, ‘Rehab? Or bus bench?’” he said in the Evening Standard interview. “I was like, ‘I’ll take the bed.’” More: Watch Sean Penn smoke his way through 'Late Show' appearance Sean Penn: 'I'm not in love with the job of acting'.