British-Canadian star Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested after allegedly bodily assaulting and threatening a taxi driver.
The incident occurred simply after midnight on Monday in Hollywood, with Los Angeles police confirming in a press release that he “entered a rideshare automobile, bodily assaulted the driving force (the sufferer) and made legal threats.”
The sufferer was not injured throughout the altercation, which occurred on the intersection of Sundown Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood and is now beneath investigation by the LAPD’s Hollywood Division.
The 59-year-old actor – and son of later actor Donald Sutherland – is finest identified for his roles within the long-running collection Designated Survivor, as Jack Bauer in 24 and the 2008 horror movie Mirrors.
The Emmy winner was launched after posting $50,000 (£37,000) bail and is now as a result of seem in court docket on February 2.
This isn’t the actor’s first arrest.
In 2007, he was arrested on a cost of driving beneath the affect, after which he pleaded no contest and served 48 days in jail.
On the time, he was in the midst of a five-year probation associated to a different drunk driving arrest in 2004.
A couple of years later, in 2009, he was charged with assault in Manhattan after allegedly headbutting designer Jack McCollough, however the prices have been later dropped.
The pair additionally launched a joint assertion wherein Sutherland apologized.
Most not too long ago, he was arrested after making an unlawful flip in Hollywood and failing a sobriety check in 2020, which had no public end result.
Sutherland’s popularity amongst his friends within the trade has additionally been discredited over time.
His twenty fourth co-star, Freddie Prinze Jr., as soon as known as him “probably the most unprofessional man on this planet” and claimed he was requested to take off his footwear throughout scenes, implying that Sutherland was insecure about their top distinction.
The Scooby Doo actor’s total expertise on set virtually made him stop performing.
‘I hated each second. I simply wished to stop the corporate after that. So I simply form of stopped doing it,” he admitted on the time.
Kiefer’s rep stated of Freddie’s expertise on the time that “it is a first.” [the actor] has heard of Freddie’s grievances.
They concluded: “Kiefer loved working with Freddie and needs him the most effective.”
Regardless of his previous, the actor stays booked and busy. At Christmas he appeared within the festive movie Tinsel City, alongside a star-studded solid together with Insurgent Wilson, Danny Dyer, Katherine Ryan and Jason Manford.
Metro has contacted Kiefer Sutherland’s representatives for remark.
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