{"id":243968,"date":"2026-01-14T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:01:08","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-ride-share-driver-kiefer-sutherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243968\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland arrested for allegedly assaulting ride-share driver | Kiefer Sutherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in the television series 24 and vampire flick The Lost Boys, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of assaulting a ride-share driver, according to Los Angeles police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Canadian-British actor was taken into custody after officers responded to a call in Hollywood shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe investigation determined that the suspect, later identified as Kiefer Sutherland, entered a ride-share vehicle, physically assaulted the driver (the victim), and made criminal threats toward the victim,\u201d the police alleged in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 59-year-old actor was released a few hours later after posting $50,000 bail, law enforcement said. He has a court date scheduled for 2 February, court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sutherland\u2019s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment from AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said the driver did not sustain injuries requiring medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sutherland is known for playing counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer in the television series 24, a hit between 2001 and 2010. On the silver screen, he had memorable turns in The Lost Boys (1987), Stand By Me (1986) and The Three Musketeers (1993).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kiefer is the son of actor Donald Sutherland, who died in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in the television series 24 and vampire flick The Lost Boys, was arrested on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-243968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}