The actor son of Hollywood veterans Sean Penn and Robin Wright was arrested for felony drug possession in Nebraska on Wednesday and spent the night in custody, authorities said.
Hopper Penn, 24, was pulled over by Nebraska State Patrol while traveling westbound in a 1992 Volvo with actress Uma von Wittkamp, 26, on Interstate 80 in Hamilton County, officials said.
The officer who initiated the stop for alleged failure to signal at some point “detected drug activity” and decided there was probable cause to search the vehicle, a patrol spokesman told the Daily News.
The officer found 14 grams of marijuana, four amphetamine pills and three grams of mushrooms, the spokesman said.
Penn was booked for the mushrooms and less than an ounce of marijuana while von Wittkamp was booked for the pills and mushrooms, police said.
The couple was released on bond Thursday, a Hamilton County jail official told The News.
Von Wittkamp was behind the wheel at the time of the arrests, police said.
Penn has spoken publicly about his struggles with substance abuse in the past.
In an interview with ES magazine last year, he said that after his parents’ breakup and a serious skateboarding accident, he fell in with the “wrong crowd.”
“I was doing a lot of stuff, but meth was the main one that brought me down. I went to rehab because I woke up in hospital and my dad said, ‘Rehab? Or bus bench?’ I was like, ‘I’ll take the bed,'” Penn said.
“Thank God I got out of that because that was the worst time in my life. Because it’s not fun when it gets to a point where you just need it,” he said.