Brandon ‘Bug’ Hall, the child actor who found fame in the 1994 adaptation of The Little Rascals, has been arrested in Ohio after officials said he no-showed a court date over a traffic citation.
Hall, 41, was taken into custody in connection with a charge of failure to appear after he did not show up on December 31, 2024 to answer for a ticket he got two months earlier.
On October 29, 2024, Hall – who played the role of Alfalfa in the movie – was cited by police in Ohio for failure to show proof of liability insurance, TMZ reported after reviewing legal docs in the case.
Hall has previously had brushes with the law, as he was taken into custody in June of 2020 in Weatherford, Texas in connection with misdemeanor possession for use to inhale or ingest a volatile chemical.
In that incident, authorities said Hall admitted to using aerosol cans for huffing, after they visited the hotel he was at after a relative of the actor’s called for a welfare check, the outlet reported at the time.
When police arrived in the room, they said they witnessed a number of indicators making it clear inhalants had been abused on the premises.
Brandon ‘Bug’ Hall, the child actor who appeared 1994’s The Little Rascals film, has been taken into custody in Ohio after officials said he no-showed a court date over a traffic citation
Hall in The Little Rascals shared the screen with fellow child stars Travis Tedford (Spanky), Brittany Ashton Holmes (Darla), Kevin Jamal Woods (Stymie), Jordan Warkol (Froggy) and Zachary Mabry (Porky).
The motion picture was directed by Penelope Spheeris and released in the U.S. in August of 1994.
It also featured established stars such as Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks and Daryl Hannah.
Hall has been in a number of TV shows and films throughout his Hollywood career, with programs such as 90210, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Masters of Sex, Nikita, Castle and Kelly Kelly among his credits.
He’s also been seen in movies such as 2024’s Cabrini, 2009’s American Pie Presents: The Book of Love and 1996’s The Stupids. Hall worked with Brenda Song and Lindsay Lohan in the 2002 Disney motion picture Get A Clue.
Hall’s latest legal hiccup comes less than three months after he told The Daily Mail that he was forsaking Hollywood to live as ‘a radical Catholic extremist’ in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Hall, who resides with his wife and five children on an 80-acre plot, said that he took ‘a vow of poverty’ in hopes of leading a minimalist lifestyle with as few expenses as possible.
‘My goal is to maintain a life as free of any need for an income as possible,’ Hall told the Daily Mail this past January.
Hall in The Little Rascals shared the screen with stars such as Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks and Daryl Hannah
Hall has previously had brushes with the law, as he was taken into custody in June of 2020 in Weatherford, Texas in connection with drugs
The actor said that he and his family at the time had been living in a campervan with a generator and water well, with an eye in the future on building a self-sufficient home with a hydro-electrical dam powering systems for plumbing and electricity.
Hall, who changed his legal name to Bug Hall-Barnett from his birth name of Brandon Rowan, said he donated most of his funds as part of a religious pledge; and would work as needed to make ends meet.
‘If there’s a financial need that comes up, I’ll go take some work or do an odd job, for cash to fulfill that need,’ said Hall.
Hall told the Daily Mail that he ‘loved making movies’ as well as ‘writing, producing [and] acting.’
But he felt it was essential to leave the entertainment industry to avoid a life he described as ‘manipulation, of other people, in how I speak to them, in the stuff that I make or produce… including myself, as an addict.’
The actor added, ‘I didn’t want to go work some job that was basically meaningless, making widgets to entertain people or distract people.’
