Vince Vaughn arrested for DUI
Vince Vaughn has been arrested for allegedly driving under the influence (DUI). The 48-year-old actor is said to have been taken into custody for driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the early hours of Sunday morning in Manhattan Beach, California.
According to TMZ.com, the Hacksaw Ridge actor was allegedly arrested at around 4 a.m. after being “stopped at a checkpoint while driving with a passenger in his car”.
The star is believed to still be in custody. If charged, it would mark his first DUI offence.
While the Brawl in Cell Block 99 actor — who has daughter Lockyln, eight, and son Vernon, five, with wife Kaya Weber — has never faced a DUI arrest before, he was once previously taken into custody in 2001 over a fight in a bar in Wilmington, North Carolina, during which actor Steve Buscemi was stabbed.
Although it isn’t known whether Vaughn had alcohol or another drug in his system at the time of his arrest, he previously spoke out about the need to make drugs legal in order to stop “f***ing ridiculous” drug wars.
He said: “I look at the drug wars, and they are absolutely f***ing ridiculous. There is a black market, and the prisons are overcrowded, and it’s not preventing drug use.
“There’s a corruption that goes all the way to the top.
“[Would I decriminalise drugs?] Yes, of course. It’s insane. I’m not saying that drugs can’t be dangerous, but not everyone that does drugs is going to go out and hurt somebody.”