Kiefer Sutherland, arrested after alleged altercation with rideshare driver

actor Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested after an alleged altercation with a carpool driver.

According to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department obtained by Us Weekly on 24 The star was arrested “just after midnight” on Monday, January 12, after “officers responded to a radio call about an assault involving a rideshare driver near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.” (Local news NBC4 investigateswas the first to report the news.)

“On January 12, at approximately 12:15 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a radio call about an assault involving a carpool driver near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue,” the statement said. “The investigation determined that the suspect, later identified as Kiefer Sutherland, entered a carpool vehicle, physically assaulted the driver (the victim) and made criminal threats toward the victim.”

According to the LAPD, officers “arrested Sutherland at the scene for making criminal threats, in violation of California Penal Code Section 422,” which is a felony.

According to authorities, the alleged victim did not suffer any injuries that required medical attention at the scene. The Hollywood division has been assigned to the case.

we Sutherland’s representatives have been contacted for comment.

Sutherland is reportedly due in court on Monday, February 2.

Monday’s arrest is far from Sutherland’s first brush with the law. In 1989, the British-Canadian actor was arrested for a DUI and charged with having a loaded gun on him. The weapons charge was dropped when the actor pleaded no contest to DUI.

He was arrested again in 1993, and eventually pleaded no contest to a plea deal with prosecutors. ABC News informed in due course. Sutherland was sentenced to more than 200 hours of community service. In 2004, he was arrested again for driving under the influence. He pleaded no contest and received five years probation and court ordered substance abuse treatment. Reuters informed He was still on parole when he was arrested in September 2007a violation of your agreement. As a result, Sutherland served time.

“Do you ever get a brochure for a vacation and get there and it’s not what you expected?” asked the actor during an appearance in 2008 a Late Night with David Letterman. “The prison isn’t that. It’s exactly as advertised. One of the gang members in one of the cells was making all his signs to me, which I certainly didn’t understand, and I went like that. It got a laugh.”

Sutherland detailed his first experience showering in prison, telling the late-night host that it felt like a “cliché,” he said at the time, laughing. “(I was) very conscious and looking around. And I actually dropped the soap. I remember looking at the soap and looking around, and I was like, ‘Soap is overrated.’

In 2022, while appearing on the “Kyle Meredith With” podcast, Sutherland elaborated further on his incarceration, explaining that he found a way to use humor to cope. He also shared that the gravity of his crimes and experience was not lost on him.

Man, there’s no sound I’ve learned to hate more than the sound of the county jail door,” he said at the time.

Sutherland, son of the late actor Donald Sutherlandshares daughter Sarah Sutherlandknown for her role as Catherine Meyer in Veepwith his first wife Camellia Kath. He was also married to Elizabeth Kelly Winn from 1996 to 2004. He has been promised Cindy Vela since 2017.