Kiefer Sutherland arrested, posts $50K bail for alleged assault and threats towards rideshare driver

Kiefer Sutherland was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday after an alleged altercation with a ride-share driver.

A consultant from the Los Angeles Police Division detailed in an announcement to Leisure Weekly that officers responded to a radio name relating to an assault involving a rideshare driver on Jan. 12 round 12:15 a.m. After they arrived close to the intersection of Sundown Blvd. and Fairfax Ave. within the West Hollywood neighborhood, officers took Sutherland into custody on suspicion of constructing prison threats.

"The investigation decided that the suspect, later recognized as Kiefer Sutherland, entered a rideshare car, bodily assaulted the motive force (the sufferer), and made prison threats towards the sufferer," LAPD's assertion reads.

The Division famous that the alleged sufferer didn’t maintain any accidents requiring instant medical therapy. Detectives from the Hollywood Division are at the moment investigating the incident.

Representatives for Sutherland didn’t instantly reply to EW's request for remark.

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Sutherland is finest generally known as Jack Bauer, the crime-fighting protagonist of the Fox motion collection 24. The son of actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas starred on all eight seasons of 24, in addition to the TV film 24: Redemption, and the restricted collection 24: Stay One other Day. He received an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the function.

In 2007, Sutherland was arrested on drunk driving costs and hit along with his fourth DUI in 18 years. After pleading no contest, he was sentenced to over a month in jail. He was arrested once more two years later for head-butting Proenza Schouler founder Jack McCollough, however costs have been dropped after Sutherland and McCollough issued a joint assertion through which he apologized.

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