DUI

Jerry Springer protege Steve Wilkos is facing a drunken driving charge in connection with a car crash in Connecticut last month. Darien police say the 53-year-old Wilkos turned himself in Wednesday after learning there was a warrant for his arrest. Police say Wilkos, a TV talk show host who was the security director on “The […]

  LONDON (AP) — Actor Brendan Coyle, who played beleaguered valet John Bates on TV drama “Downton Abbey,” has been banned from driving after being caught behind the wheel after drinking. Coyle appeared at King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court in eastern England Thursday under his real name, David Coyle, and pleaded guilty to drunken driving. Police […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Stamos has been charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence of a drug after he was arrested for erratic driving in Beverly Hills in June, prosecutors announced Thursday. The “Full House” star was charged Wednesday and is due to be arraigned on Friday. The charging document does not identify the […]

JEFFERSON, Ohio (AP) — Soap opera actor Freddie Smith has been sentenced to two years of probation and had his drivers’ license suspended for a year after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a car crash that seriously injured his girlfriend. The 26-year-old “Days of Our Lives” actor from Los Angeles lost control of his […]

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — An actor on the television show “The Walking Dead” has been charged with driving drunk in Georgia, where the show is filmed. Peachtree City police arrested 70-year-old Scott Wilson at 2 a.m. Aug. 18 after someone called 911 to report a Chrysler PT Cruiser driving erratically. On the AMC drama, […]