DETROIT — "Family Matters" star Darius McCrary has been booked in the Oakland County Jail for failing to pay nearly $75,000 in past-due child support.

Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Amanda Shelton issued a warrant for McCrary's arrest in August 2024 because of this past-due child support.

McCrary has repeatedly been cited for failing to pay child support, and in May 2024, he owed nearly $100,000 to his then-16-year-old child's mother.

McCrary was also arrested in December 2023 for a felony failing to pay child support charge in Oakland County, stemming from a failure to pay $52,000 in child support from April 2015 through March 2019. He was released with a GPS tether, but failed to pay the tether fees and continued to not pay child support, Assistant Attorney General Sarah Brenner wrote in a March 2024 motion to revoke McCrary's bond.

In June 2024, McCrary was charged with three additional felony failure to pay child support charges, for not paying child support between August 2019 and December 2021, as well as March 2022 through March 2024.

McCrary's bond was revoked in June 2024 for failing to attend a June 24 hearing and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

McCrary only saw his son once between 2016 and 2022, when he had supervised parenting time when he was in Michigan for a few days in October 2022, according to court records. McCrary asked for unsupervised time, but his request was denied.

The child's mother's attorney, Celeste Dunn, wrote in a response to McCrary's request for in-person parenting time that McCrary did not make any attempts to see his son between 2016, when he refused to return his son back to Michigan after he went to visit McCrary in California for spring break, and October 2022.

Dunn said parenting time was not in the child's best interests, as the teen did not want to see his dad. McCrary has been nothing but a "source of disappointment, and fear," Dunn wrote.

McCrary's attorney Jermaine Wyrick wrote in an August 2024 motion to set aside his arrest warrant that McCrary has a "strong bonded and loving relationship" with his son, stemming from early childhood when McCrary was his primary caretaker.

There have been no hearings or actions in the felony case since September 2024.

McCrary is best known for his role as Eddie Winslow on the sitcom "Family Matters," which ran from 1989 until 1998.

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