{"id":408050,"date":"2026-01-14T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:20:07","slug":"actor-kiefer-sutherland-arrested-over-alleged-assault-of-ride-share-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408050\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Kiefer Sutherland arrested over alleged assault of ride-share driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested after allegedly assaulting and threatening a ride-share driver in Hollywood, police have said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Sutherland &#8220;entered a ride-share vehicle, physically assaulted the driver (the victim), and made criminal threats&#8221; in an incident at 00:15 PST (08:15 GMT) on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The victim was not injured in the incident, the LAPD added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sutherland, 59, was released after paying a bond of $50,000 (\u00a337,000). He is due to appear in court on 2 February. The BBC has contacted his representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The incident took place at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood and is under investigation by the LAPD&#8217;s Hollywood Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sutherland, known for roles such as special agent Jack Bauer on Fox&#8217;s 24, and as the US president in Designated Survivor, is the son of actor Donald Sutherland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Canadian actor has been arrested several times in the past, and in 2007 he was sentenced to 48 days in jail for driving under the influence and violating probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He was arrested for assault in 2009, although the charge was later dropped, and was most recently arrested after making an illegal U-turn in Hollywood in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested after allegedly assaulting and threatening a ride-share driver in Hollywood, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-408050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}