David Cassidy arrested on DUI charge, plans to fight it
David Cassidy, the man "The Partridge Family" made famous, was arrested Wednesday in Florida on suspicion of DUI and spent nine hours in a county jail before posting $350 bail.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the actor and singer failed a field sobriety test and two breath tests after being pulled over around 6 p.m. for driving erratically on the turnpike in Fort Lauderdale. Officers said they found a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the backseat of Cassidy's white Mercedes.
According to an arrest report obtained by People, Cassidy allegedly crossed the center divider line, then cut off another driver while attempting to merge onto an exit ramp. He was charged with DUI, failure to maintain a single lane and having an open container.
Cassidy, 60, says he was not drunk and intends to fight the charges, his rep, Jo-Ann Geffen, told TMZ. He told police he had had a glass of wine at lunch and took a hydrocodone pill in the afternoon for back pain. But Cassidy says the results of two breath tests -- both around 0.14 -- are inaccurate.
"He would never jeopardize anyone on the road, and he would not have been driving had he not had to go to a funeral," Geffen said. Cassidy lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife, songwriter Sue Shifrin-Cassidy.
-- Christie D'Zurilla
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Photo: A booking shot of David Cassidy after his Nov. 3, 2010, arrest on suspicion of DUI in Florida. Credit: Florida Highway Patrol / Associated Press
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...but what about the open bottle in the back seat???
Posted by: Peter S. | Nov 04, 2010 at 11:14 AM
don't they always deny it?? I used to love him as a child (check out my last name); but am very disappointed right now.
Posted by: kpartridge | Nov 04, 2010 at 11:14 AM
If he's saying that that's how he looks sober, he should plead guilty.
Posted by: Bush the Liberator | Nov 04, 2010 at 11:24 AM
David you like a dead person.....is the whole world on painpills..????looks like it...real smart drink some booooooze and take a pain pill..you must want to be in a coma...you could at least go to rehab with charlie sheen
Posted by: rollo the walker | Nov 04, 2010 at 11:34 AM
DUI? Can't people take taxis? I mean, DUI? I have been drunk 300 times in my life. Yes, I drove drunk. Never got a DUI but should have had 250. Been driving 50 years, still tip one or four occasionally but NOT GOING to get a DUI. The first opening sip of the Newcastle and I am home for the night. DRUNK DRIVING is perhaps the most lame thing someone can do. Call someone, beg rides, call a cab. Walk. Run. Crawl. The ideal thing is to have some little hottie cheerleader type bring you home with her. But, no DUI's.
Posted by: Michael | Nov 04, 2010 at 11:57 AM
go to rehab with sheen
Posted by: rollo the walker | Nov 04, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Michael, if you've drivin drunk at least once in your life, u're already just as bad as anyone who gets a dui.
Posted by: sadie | Nov 04, 2010 at 12:15 PM
I hate to say it, but it looks a lot like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case. The legendary Jack Cassidy, his father, had a well known alcoholism problem, as well as mental illness. Even David Cassidy documented this in his most recent autobiography. I hope DC will not remain in denial and will get the help he needs so he doesn't wind up with such a tragic ending as his father.
Posted by: Sabrina | Nov 04, 2010 at 03:52 PM
he is innocent,,he borrowed the car from paris hilton and the bottle fell out of paris hiltons purse.
Posted by: MARK SHAPIRO | Nov 05, 2010 at 07:24 AM
Poor guy! National news?
Posted by: Rick Barbata | Nov 06, 2010 at 05:31 PM