'Heroes' actor Adrian Pasdar arrested on suspicion of DUI

Los Angeles, CA

"Heroes" TV actor Adrian Pasdar has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and veering across lanes on the 405 Freeway in West L.A. in the wee hours Wednesday morning.

Pasdar, 44, was pulled over shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday, according to a California Highway Patrol report, after officers saw his Ford F-150 truck doing 94 mph on the freeway near Santa Monica Boulevard and straddling two lanes.

The odor of alcohol was detected in the car, the report says. He was given a field sobriety test and was taken to county jail, then released at about 8:30 a.m. on $15,000 bail.

A Feb. 24 court date is currently scheduled for the misdemeanor.

Pasdar, who has been playing Sen. Nathan Petrelli on NBC’s "Heroes" since 2006 (with some recent unfortunate plot twists), married Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines in 2000. They have homes in L.A. and in Lubbock, Texas.

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Bruce Smith pleads guilty to DUI in Virginia, his 3rd offense in 13 years

Virginia Beach, VA

NFL Hall of Fame member Bruce Smith pleaded guilty to one count of drunken driving in a Virginia Beach, VA court on Thursday.

Smith was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and complete an alcohol-safety program. He also received a 90-day suspended jail term and had his drivers license restricted for one year.

The former Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins defensive end was arrested on May 14 after police pulled his vehicle over and he failed field sobriety tests. Smith also refused to take a breathalyzer test at the time.

He would later admit to drinking wine with his friends in Norfolk, VA before heading home.

“I made the decision I was OK to drive home,” Smith told the court on Thursday per the Virginia Pilot. “That was the first mistake.”

Ironically, the arresting officer was convicted of DUI after crashing his car while off-duty one month after Smith’s incident.

This was Smith’s third DUI arrest in 13 years. His first case was dismissed while he was acquitted of his second.

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Stephanie Pratt Deals Plea In DUI Case

Stephanie Pratt Deals Plea In DUI Case
Los Angeles, CA

Stephanie Pratt reached a plea deal on January 7, related to prior charges of driving under the influence. Her penalty goes beyond a slap on the wrist.
The Hills starlet Stephanie Pratt won’t serve jail time for having driven under the influence in October 2009, but she hasn’t been permitted to skip away care-free, either.

People magazine reports that Pratt, 23, and Los Angeles prosecutors agreed to a plea deal on January 7. In place of DUI charges, she pleaded “no contest” to a single misdemeanor account of “exhibition of speed.” The reported sentence was a fine, three years of informal probation, two months of weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and completion of a three-month alcohol education program. Steep or not, this sentence replaced a possible six months of jail time.
Pratt had been arrested for drunk driving on October 18, 2009, after she attended Holly Montag’s birthday party. Pratt told People shortly after that the arrest was “the worst thing to happen to me and, at the same time, it was the biggest blessing.”
Possibly it was blessing’s second helping, since Pratt said the same thing a few years back about getting arrested in Honolulu for drug possession and shoplifting. “I don’t think I would have been able to get off drugs without that huge wake-up call,” she told Us magazine in 2006.

She was around 20 years old then. Aside from the arrests and publicized struggle with substances, Pratt, young as she is, has already been connected to an evident amount of plastic surgery. This is clear in photos that show major signs of lip augmentation. Pratt is also rumored to have had a rhinoplasty and breast implants.
“Stephanie Pratt is still very young, but it is apparent she has had a bit of work,” plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif told MakeMeHeal.com. “Her lips are the most apparent, as they appear plumper than they once were. Her nose it a bit narrower and more perky as well. With someone as young as Stephanie, it is true that less can be more, and the work she has done may not have been of benefit to her look.”
Circumstances show that in Pratt’s case, less is certainly better – be it plastic surgery or recklessness.

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NFL Legend Bruce Smith pleads guilty in VA to 3rd DUI in 13 years

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Virginia Beach, VA

NFL Hall of Fame member Bruce Smith pleaded guilty to one count of drunken driving in a Virginia Beach, VA court on Thursday.

Smith was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and complete an alcohol-safety program. He also received a 90-day suspended jail term and had his drivers license restricted for one year.

The former Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins defensive end was arrested on May 14 after police pulled his vehicle over and he failed field sobriety tests. Smith also refused to take a breathalyzer test at the time.

He would later admit to drinking wine with his friends in Norfolk, VA before heading home.

“I made the decision I was OK to drive home,” Smith told the court on Thursday per the Virginia Pilot. “That was the first mistake.”

Ironically, the arresting officer was convicted of DUI after crashing his car while off-duty one month after Smith’s incident.

This was Smith’s third DUI arrest in 13 years. His first case was dismissed while he was acquitted of his second.

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Barron Hilton gets driver license back after 2008 DUI, new Merecedes from dad

Los Angeles, CA

Barron Hilton has shown he's not to be trusted behind the wheel of a car -- but that didn't stop his dad from buying him a $60,000 ride as a reward for getting his license back after a DUI bust in 2008.

Hilton got his driver's license
back Tuesday ... it was yanked after he pled no contest in 2008 to DUI in Malibu, where he allegedly hit a gas station employee with his car.

The 20-year-old went to the DMV and had to re-take his road test. We're told he was sober and he passed. His reward from pops -- a black 2010 Mercedes E550 Coupe.

It may seem like Barron is spoiled, until you realize ... his 15-year-old brother Conrad gets to drive dad's $200,000 Bentley. It's all relative.

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Stephanie Pratt DUI plea deal reached, gets 3 years probation

Los Angeles, CA

Stephanie Pratt reached a plea deal with Los Angeles prosecutors in her DUI case Thursday.

The Hills star, 23, was sentenced to three years informal probation, completion of a 12-week alcohol education program, as well as three Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week for eight weeks, and will pay a fine.

DUI charges were dropped in exchange for a no contest plea to one count of misdemeanor "exhibition of speed."

On the issue of whether she attended rehab, "Ms. Pratt voluntarily sought help from a doctor regarding substance issues but the doctor recommended that she didn't need rehab," Pratt's lawyer Jon Bryant Artz tells PEOPLE.

Following her Oct. 18 arrest, in which she was pulled over after attending Holly Montag's birthday party, Pratt said the incident "was the worst thing to happen to me and, at the same time, it was the biggest blessing" as a life lesson.

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Jayson Williams DWI arrest is latest legal problem for ex New Jersey Nets star

New York, NY

Adding to a catalog of legal troubles, former New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams was charged with drunken driving in Manhattan early yesterday after crashing his SUV into a tree, police said.

Williams, awaiting retrial on a reckless manslaughter charge in the 2002 shooting of a limousine driver, suffered facial cuts and a broken bone in his neck in the 3:15 a.m. crash, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.

Williams was not paralyzed by the neck injury, the New York Daily News reported.

Police said Williams, driving a black Mercedes-Benz SUV, struck the tree after veering off an exit ramp of the FDR Drive at East 20th Street.

Responding officers found him sitting in the passenger seat, and authorities said he told them someone else was driving, a claim countered by witnesses to the crash. He refused to take a Breathalyzer test, police said.

Williams was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan. He could not be reached yesterday, but his longtime friend and manager, Akhtar Farzaie, expressed support for the beleaguered ex-Net.

"I've known Jayson for many years as his friend/manager and know that it is not within his character to ever drink and drive," Farzaie said.

The crash marks the latest in a string of legal woes for Williams.

In April, New York City police used a stun gun to subdue him in a Lower Manhattan hotel after they received a call about a suicidal and violent guest. At the time, he was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. A month later, police in Raleigh, N.C., charged him with simple assault after a bar fight. The count was later dropped.

Williams, who developed a reputation as a ferocious rebounder before injury cut short his NBA career a decade ago, is awaiting retrial in the most serious case against him: The shooting death of limo driver Costas "Gus" Christofi, 55.

In 2002, Williams was showing a shotgun to friends at his former Alexandria Township estate when the gun fired.

Williams beat an aggravated manslaughter charge at his 2004 trial, but jurors deadlocked on the reckless manslaughter count.

He was convicted of trying to cover the shooting up but has not been sentenced pending retrial. Williams remains free on $270,000 bail.

Yesterday's accident came less than a week before he was scheduled to return to Superior Court in Somerville to hear whether a judge will let his high-profile defense team withdraw from the case.

Lawyers Joseph Hayden Jr. of Roseland and Billy Martin of Washington, D.C., asked out of the case last month, citing a breakdown of trust and communication with their client. Hayden and Martin have been Williams' lead attorneys since the first trial in 2004. Also seeking to withdraw are lawyers Christopher Adams and Leigh-Anne Mulrey, who are with Hayden's firm.

While the lawyers are under a gag order in the manslaughter case, Adams offered a comment on the crash.

"At the moment, we are focused on the treatment of Jayson's injuries and thankful to the medical and law enforcement personnel who have helped him," he said. The state Attorney General's Office declined to say whether prosecutors would seek to revoke Williams' bail given yesterday's arrest.

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