Darius McCrary: Family Matters Star Looks Exhausted In Mug Shot After Being Arrested While Trying To Enter Mexico

Family Matters star Darius McCrary has been seen in his mug shot.

The 49-year-old actor looked exhausted in the image shared by the Oakland County Jail on Thursday.

At the time Darius McCrary was arrested, he was trying to get into Mexico from the U.S., authorities said.

 

His request for bail was turned down in his initial court appearance in mid October in Southern California.

 

Darius McCrary, who played the role of Eddie Winslow on the ABC sitcom from 1989 to 1998, has been in a San Diego-area jail after he was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on October 5.

 

A judge ruled that the Walnut, California-born actor remained a flight risk in the ongoing case, in which he was taken into custody in connection with a felony warrant issued in Michigan. 

 

The Monogamy actor at first said he wanted to represent himself and go without the services of a court-appointed lawyer, but the judge appointed a public defender to work on his behalf.

Authorities are planning to extradite McCrary back to Michigan, where the warrant for his arrest was initially issued over a missed court date over unpaid child support dues.

There have been conflicting accounts early on of why The Young and the Restless alum was in the area in the first place.

Prosecutors in the case said McCrary's agent claimed that he had been in Tijuana to scout potential real estate purchases, according to ABC 10 News.

 

The public defender in the case said that McCrary had been in the area to work on a charitable endeavor involving houses being built.

A representative for the actor told People that McCrary should not be considered a flight risk because he doesn't have any connections to the Tijuana area.

 

The rep said that McCrary accidentally found himself in a separate country because of a 'a mix-up [about] where to meet his partner for the Esperanza program,' the aforementioned charity involving houses.

The rep said that McCrary intends to battle the case in Michigan, where he's slated to appear in court on November 14.

Darius McCrary has dealt with legal issues in the past tied to his acrimonious split from ex-wife Tammy Brawner.

The former couple filed for divorce in 2017 and finalized it in 2019, with McCrary being ordered by the court to pay a monthly amount of $1,366 in child support, court documents reviewed by People revealed.

The court ordered Brawner, an actress/producer who once played for the Harlem Globetrotters, to receive full legal and physical custody of their daughter Zoe, who was three-years-old at the time of the ruling, according to the outlet.

The court subsequently ordered McCrary to go to programs for alcohol/drug abuse and batterers' intervention over the next year, People reported after reviewing documents.

McCrary was given supervised visitation with his daughter for six hours every Sunday for the first 10 visits, at which time the conditions would be re-examined by the court, the outlet reported citing legal documents.