{"id":232647,"date":"2026-01-14T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:52:08","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-arrested-after-alleged-assault-on-rideshare-driver-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232647\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland arrested after alleged assault on rideshare driver in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The son of late, great actor Donald Sutherland, who died in 2024 aged 88, is due to appear in court on February 2.<\/p>\n

Sutherland\u2019s representatives did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time the 24 actor has been arrested.<\/p>\n

He has previously had three spells in jail, most recently in 2007, when he was sentenced to 48 days in prison for driving under the influence and violating probation.<\/p>\n

In 2016, he told Rolling Stone Country: \u201cJohnny Cash wrote about men in prison and he managed to do that with a kind of dignity that I always thought was incredible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been to prison … I have gone to jail a few times in my life for doing some incredibly stupid stuff and I can tell you, the first thing you lose when you walk through those doors is your dignity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always really appreciated [Cash] for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sutherland was detained in 2009 for allegedly assaulting a fashion designer in a New York City nightclub, but the misdemeanour assault charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n

He was also arrested in 2020 after making an illegal U-turn in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of late, great actor Donald Sutherland, who died in 2024 aged 88, is due to appear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3225,74,1554,7818,11924,17704,51247,1558,19552,156,78,138096,55623,111,139,69,90,675,79226,138097],"class_list":["post-232647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-according","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-assault","tag-assaulting","tag-been","tag-driver","tag-entertainment","tag-in","tag-kiefer","tag-la","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-police","tag-rideshare","tag-sutherland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}