Former teen heartthrob David Cassidy was arrested for DUI in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Wednesday night after a highway patrolman spotted the ‘Partridge Family’ star weaving between lanes and nearly hitting another car.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the 60-year-old Cassidy told the officer he’d had a glass of wine at lunch and that he also experienced prescription medication and hydrocodone in his program.
When the trooper approached the automobile, he “could smell a slight odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage come from the defendant’s mouth,” based on the report. A half-empty bottle of Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon was spotted in the automobile.
Cops pulled over the former ‘Partridge Family’ star final night following observing him weaving between lanes and almost hitting another automobile. The trooper who stopped him observed a boozy aroma across the onetime teen idol and spotted a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the automobile, which . . . yeah, that’s pretty a lot going to obtain you arrested, proper there. He blew a 0.139 and 0.14 on the breathalyzer.
After Cassidy, described in the report as “unsteady on his feet,” failed several sobriety tests he was arrested and charged with DUI, failure to preserve a single lane and having an open container. The arrest occurred at 8PM, but he was not released on bond until 3:22AM Thursday.
Cassidy’s rep denies the police account, declaring that the actor was not drinking and experienced only taken a pain pill for his back earlier within the day. The actor, who says he was returning from a funeral at the time of the arrest, plans to battle the DUI charges.
“He would never jeopardize anybody on the road and he wouldn’t have been driving experienced he not had to go to a funeral,” Jo-Ann Geffen tells TMZ. “He’s by no means been arrested in his life before for anything.”