Overview
- Police say officers responded around 12:15 a.m. near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue and determined Sutherland entered a rideshare, assaulted the driver and made criminal threats.
- Sutherland, 59, was booked on suspicion of criminal threats under California Penal Code 422 and released the same day on $50,000 bond.
- The driver did not require medical treatment at the scene, according to the LAPD.
- LAPD Hollywood Division detectives are investigating, and Sutherland is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Feb. 2.
- Some outlets, citing TMZ, report unverified claims that he threatened to kill the driver after asking to be let out; representatives for Sutherland have not commented.