Thomas, Sept. 25 -- He was the boy who walked away from all of it at sixteen: the fan mail, the magazine covers, the studio calls. On the morning of September 22, Jonathan Taylor Thomas was booked at the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station on charges of public intoxication and obstruction of a peace officer.

50 a.m. in Westlake Village, California. According to Fox News, he was a passenger in a vehicle that had stopped at a green intersection light and was blocking traffic when Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies pulled alongside.

The driver appeared intoxicated. Deputies approached the car and instructed those inside to remain in the vehicle. Thomas stepped out. When deputies moved to detain him on suspicion of obstruction and public...