Dan Gross: Cybill Shepherd's son arrested

THE 22-YEAR-OLD son of actress Cybill Shepherd was arrested early yesterday at Philadelphia International Airport for allegedly stealing a Canon digital camera, leather make-up case and cash from the bags of fellow passengers aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco, according to police.

Cyrus Shepherd-Oppenheim, a University of Pennsylvania student who lives in University City, was taken into custody shortly after midnight after Flight 186 landed. Police say witnesses identified Shepherd-Oppenheim, who goes by Zack, short for his middle name Zacariah, as the person who took their belongings during the six-hour flight.

He was released yesterday evening on his own recognizance and has a court hearing Feb. 4 in Criminal Justice Center Room 404. He has been charged with theft-unlawful taking, and theft-receiving stolen property.

"Here you have a nice young man who's a good student and a good kid who has never had a problem with the law before and if his name was Joe Blow, nobody would be writing about it," attorney William J. Brennan, representing Shepherd-Oppenheim, said yesterday. "He has been charged with a crime and we intend to vigorously defend him," said Brennan, of Center City's Brennan Law Offices.

Our e-mail to a spokeswoman for Cybill Shepherd, of "Taxi Driver", "Moonlighting" and "Cybill" fame, was not returned yesterday.

Cyrus and his twin sister Molly are children of Shepherd and former husband Bruce Oppenheim. The couple divorced in 1989.

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