{"id":474202,"date":"2026-09-24T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474202\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:30:10","slug":"actor-jonathan-taylor-thomas-charged-with-obstruction-during-california-traffic-stop-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474202\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas charged with obstruction during California traffic stop \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who captured 1990s teen hearts as the mischievous middle son Randy Taylor on \u201cHome Improvement,\u201d has had a run-in with the law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old former child star allegedly got pushy during a traffic stop, according to reports \u2014 and he wasn\u2019t even driving. He\u2019s now faces three felony counts\u00a0related to obstructing or resisting an officer.<\/p>\n

Thomas was a passenger in a car that was pulled over in upscale Westlake Village, California, at 12:30 a.m. Monday, law enforcement sources told TMZ. Cops told him to stay inside the vehicle, but he exited the car anyway. Once out, police realized Thomas appeared drunk<\/a>, KNBC reported. That prompted an investigation of the driver, who was arrested for suspected DUI.<\/p>\n

Thomas was held in the Malibu\/Lost Hills Sheriff\u2019s Station jail overnight and released around noon on Tuesday, according to online jail records.<\/p>\n

Thomas was on \u201cHome Improvement\u201d from 1991-98, leaving at age 16 to pursue academics, after appearing in just three episodes of the hit sitcom\u2019s final season in 1999. He also appeared in or voiced movie roles, most notably as the cub Simba in Disney\u2019s animated \u201cThe Lion King.\u201d He played Tom Sawyer in 1995\u2019s \u201cTom and Huck\u201d and voiced and played Pinocchio in \u201cThe Adventures of Pinocchio\u201d in 1996.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s reps did not comment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who captured 1990s teen hearts as the mischievous middle son Randy Taylor on \u201cHome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2523,12577,723,138,967,181,1338,100,420,2822,14258],"class_list":["post-474202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-celebrities","tag-coffee-break","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-morning-wire","tag-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-tv","tag-tv-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}