{"id":405902,"date":"2026-01-14T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:04:07","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-arrested-after-allegedly-assault-of-rideshare-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405902\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland Arrested After Allegedly Assault of Rideshare Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c24\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kiefer-sutherland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kiefer-sutherland\" data-tag=\"kiefer-sutherland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sutherland<\/a> was arrested early Monday after an alleged physical altercation with a Hollywood ride-share driver, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAuthorities said that around 12:15 a.m., the LAPD responded to a call about an assault involving a rideshare driver near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. Officers concluded that the suspect, identified as Sutherland, entered a rideshare vehicle, allegedly assaulted the driver and made criminal threats toward them. The victim sustained no injuries that required immediate medical attention. Sutherland was arrested for making criminal threats toward the victim, in violation of California Penal Code section 422. Detectives from the Hollywood Division are currently investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSutherland\u2019s reps did not immediately respond to Variety\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSutherland was bailed out on a $50,000 bond late Monday morning. His initial court date is set for Feb. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSutherland, son of Shirley Douglas and the late actor Donald Sutherland, broke into Hollywood starring in Rob Reiner\u2019s 1986 coming-of-age drama \u201cStand By Me,\u201d and Joel Schumacher\u2019s 1987 subversive teen horror \u201cThe Lost Boys.\u201d Some of his other early works include \u201cCrazy Moon,\u201d \u201cBright Lights, Big City,\u201d \u201cFlashback,\u201d \u201cThe Flatliners,\u201d \u201cTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me\u201d and \u201cA Few Good Men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSutherland is probably best known for playing counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer across eight seasons of the Fox thriller series \u201c24.\u201d It won 20 Emmys during its run, including two acting prizes for Sutherland. In 2012, the show was rebooted into 12 episode mini series, \u201c24: Live Another Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHis recent credits include films like \u201cTinsel Town,\u201d \u201cStone Cold Fox,\u201d \u201cJuror #2\u201d and \u201cThey Cloned Tyrone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c24\u201d star Kiefer Sutherland was arrested early Monday after an alleged physical altercation with a Hollywood ride-share driver,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,1288],"class_list":{"0":"post-405902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kiefer-sutherland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}