Actor Kiefer Sutherland, a film and television star since the 1980s, was arrested Monday after he was alleged to have physically assaulted and threatened a ride-share driver, police said.
Sutherland, 59, was arrested at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood after officers responded to a report of an assault around 12:15 a.m., Los Angeles Police Officer Kevin Terzes said by email Tuesday.
“The investigation determined that the suspect, later identified as Kiefer Sutherland, entered a rideshare vehicle, physically assaulted the driver (the victim), and made criminal threats toward the victim,” Terzes said.
Sutherland’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday night.
Terzes said the victim didn’t sustain any injuries that required medical treatment at the scene and added that an investigation continued.
Sutherland was booked into jail a little after 4 a.m. on an unspecified felony charge, according to Los Angeles County jail records. He was assigned $50,000 bail and bonded out about seven hours later, the records show. He was scheduled to appear in court Feb. 2.
NBC Los Angeles first reported Sutherland’s arrest.
Sutherland made a mark as a heartthrob, rich kid and sometime bad boy on the big screen in the 1980s before he found a stride on television’s “24” in the 2000s. His father is the late actor Donald Sutherland.
