{"id":12144,"date":"2026-01-14T04:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:26:21","slug":"actor-kiefer-sutherland-arrested-over-alleged-assault-of-ride-share-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12144","title":{"rendered":"Actor Kiefer Sutherland arrested over alleged assault of ride-share driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested after allegedly assaulting and threatening a ride-share driver in Hollywood, police have said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Sutherland &#8220;entered a ride-share vehicle, physically assaulted the driver (the victim), and made criminal threats&#8221; in an incident at 00:15 PST (08:15 GMT) on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The victim was not injured in the incident, the LAPD added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sutherland, 59, was released after paying a bond of $50,000 (\u00a337,000). He is due to appear in court on 2 February. The BBC has contacted his representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The incident took place at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood and is under investigation by the LAPD&#8217;s Hollywood Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sutherland, known for roles such as special agent Jack Bauer on Fox&#8217;s 24, and as the US president in Designated Survivor, is the son of actor Donald Sutherland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Canadian actor has been arrested several times in the past, and in 2007 he was sentenced to 48 days in jail for driving under the influence and violating probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He was arrested for assault in 2009, although the charge was later dropped, and was most recently arrested after making an illegal U-turn in Hollywood in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Actor #Kiefer #Sutherland #arrested #alleged #assault #rideshare #driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherla&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}