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'Heroes' star Adrian Pasdar busted for DUI; posts $15,000 bail
by Natalie James - January 28, 2010 - comments
The suspicion led to the officer determining that the actor was under the influence of alcohol and booking him for investigation of DUI charge.
Los Angeles, January 28 -- "Heroes" star Adrian Pasdar has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and veering across lanes on a West Los Angeles freeway.
Pasdar was arrested for DUI early Wednesday morning after police spotted him driving irresponsibly, according to reports.
The California highway police (CHP) report says that Pasdar was pulled over shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday when officers noticed his Ford F-150 truck speeding at 94mph on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles.
Pasdar failed to maintain his lane
The 44-year-old actor, who plays lawyer-turned-senator Nathan Petrelli on the NBC drama "Heroes," was seen swerving between lanes, the report says.
Pasdar first refused to take a breathalyzer test, but the police gave him a field sobriety test after they detected the smell of alcohol coming from his vehicle as they approached, according to the report.
“Upon contacting Pasdar, the officers noticed an odor of alcoholic beverage emitting from within the vehicle,” the CHP said.
The suspicion led to the officer determining that the actor was under the influence of alcohol and booking him for investigation of DUI.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Pasdar was taken to County jail and was released at around 9 in the morning when he posted a bail of $15,000.
‘Heroes’ star’s brief biography
Born Adrian Kayvan Pasdar on April 30, 1965, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Pasdar is the son of Homayoon Pasdar, who was born in Iran and worked as a surgeon near Philadelphia, and Rosemarie Pasdar, a German woman who worked as a nurse and then became an English teacher in France.
Pasdar rose to fame with his small role in Top Gun (1986). This led to bigger roles in Solarbabies (1986), Streets of Gold (1986), and Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 cult vampire movie Near Dark (1987), with Adrian in the lead role of Caleb Colton. He also appeared in Vital Signs (1990).
Pasdar is married to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and is also the father of two children.
Pasdar first met Natalie Maines in May 1999 at the wedding of band member Emily Robison and singer-songwriter Charlie Robison. After nearly one year of dating, the two tied the knot on the weekend of June 24-25, 2000 in Las Vegas's Little White Wedding Chapel. They swapped vows in a $55 no-frills ceremony officiated by the chapel's Pastor Ann.
Together the couple have two sons--Jackson Slade Pasdar (born on March 15, 2001) and Beckett Finn Pasdar (born on July 14, 2004).