Family Ties Tyke Bonsall Found but Still Lost

Wanted by Colorado authorities for a year, Brian Bonsall arrested yet again on suspicion of assault

UPDATED: Bonsall was sentenced to two years' probation, five days in a work-release program and 40 hours of community service after pleading guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault for the fight, as well as violating his probation on a 2007 domestic-violence charge.
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Perhaps Andy Keaton is still reeling from the whole "mom's a lesbian" thing.

Brian Bonsall, who played the youngest member of the Keaton clan on Family Ties, is in trouble with the Colorado law yet again, this time after being arrested after allegedly hitting a friend with a piece of a wooden stool.

According to Boulder's Daily Camera, police were called to the apartment of Bonsall's "friend," Micheal Trujillo, three times Friday night before finally arresting the former child star at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

Police said that Bonsall, 28, told them he had been drinking and didn't remember the incident. He's currently being held in Boulder County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bail and is due in court Wednesday to answer to charges of assault and failure to appear stemming from a court date he missed in July 2008.

Bonsall, who had been on the lam until now, is still on the hook for a 2007 domestic-violence incident involving his girlfriend at the time. He pleaded guilty to third-degree assault but ended up in hot water again a year later after failing a Breathalyzer, not showing up for a drug test, bailing on payment for a domestic-abuse class and, when all was said and done, failing to appear before a judge.