Celebrity DWI News

Kiefer Sutherland is to be released from jail on Monday after serving 48 days on a drink-driving charge.

Sutherland spent his sentence cleaning sheets, pillowcases and blankets on laundry duty, police officer John Balian said, adding that the US actor was no problem during his time in jail.

The 41-year-old star of hit series 24 pleaded no contest at the end of last year to drunk driving. He was sentenced to 30 days for that crime and 18 days for violating probation from a 2004 drink-driving arrest. He was granted a request to serve his time in California's Glendale's jail rather than in the overcrowded Los Angeles County jail. In exchange for that, he could not receive any time off his sentence for good behavior

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Former TV host Gary Collins was released from jail Friday morning after completing a four-day sentence for a second DUI conviction.

Collins, 69, left the Glendale, Calif., facility – which also currently houses Kiefer Sutherland (who is due for release on Monday) – at 6:15 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Web site. Collins and Sutherland were not housed near one other.

The former Hour Magazine and Home Show host was busted for DUI after an accident in the San Fernando Valley on Oct. 23. More >>

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Fallen Yankee hero Jim Leyritz was hit with a second DUI charge Thursday for killing a young mom in a car wreck while he was allegedly bombed on booze.

Leyritz will be formally arraigned on Jan. 30 and faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted, authorities said.

The hard-hitting former catcher was initially charged with a single count of DUI-related manslaughter and one count of causing property damage for slamming his SUV into a vehicle driven by 30-year-old Fredia Ann Veitch after a night of celebrating his 44th birthday.

Prosecutors are expected to introduce into evidence a roadside videotape taken by a police dashboard camera. The video shows Leyritz failing sobriety tests after the Dec. 28 wreck left the mother of two dead, sources said.

A blood test taken three hours after the deadly crash showed that Leyritz still had nearly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his system, prosecutors said.

Leyritz has been released on $11,000 bond. He remained holed up yesterday in his Davie, Fla., home.

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Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress will soon be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving, her attorney, Blair Berk, told a judge Thursday.

She has also spent two months in rehabilitation and has done some community service, Berk said at a hearing on her progress toward fulfilling the terms of her plea bargain.

Her two four-hour days at the morgue are part of a court-ordered program to show drivers the real-life consequences of drinking and driving. She must also spend two days working in a hospital emergency room.

Lohan was arrested twice last year on DUI charges and pleaded guilty in August to misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges. She has already served 84 minutes in jail as part of the plea deal.

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Veteran actor Gary Collins has turned himself in to California authorities to begin a 96-hour sentence after pleading guilty to drunk driving on 12-7-07.

Collins checked into Glendale City Jail on Monday, where he will find himself in good company - Kiefer Sutherland also is serving time at the jail following his driving under the influence (DUI) conviction on 9-8-07.

Gary Collins, 69, was handed the prison sentence in December following his October arrest after the actor crashed his black Ford Explorer into a blue Toyota while driving through Sherman Oaks, California.

In addition to his jailtime, Collins must complete 100 hours of community service. He was also fined $500 and will be placed on probation for four years.

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Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Brent Hawkins was arrested and charged with drunken driving after he was stopped for speeding on his way home from a night out.

The 24-year-old was arrested early Monday when deputies clocked him driving his 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe at 64 mph in a 45-mph zone, a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office report said.

He told deputies he had three vodka and orange juice drinks during the night, the report said. He also told the arresting deputy that he had a previous drunken-driving arrest in Illinois.

"I noticed while speaking to him that he had the odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath and that his eyes were bloodshot and watery," the arresting deputy wrote in the report.

Hawkins refused to take a breath test after he was brought to the Duval County Jail, a sheriff's spokesman said. Hawkins was released from jail later Monday.More >>

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The Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary, who was the co-writer of Pulp Fiction as well as Beowulf, was arrested and charged with manslaughter.

He was arrested on Monday morning under the suspicion of manslaughter, and driving under the influence.

The 42-year-old was the driver in a collision on Sunday shortly after midnight. The accident resulted in the death of a passenger. The passenger was a guest of Avary and his wife, Gretchen.

The passenger was in town, on a visit from Italy. The jaws of life had to be used to free the guest from the crash.

He died at the Ventura County Medical center

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