

I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. “It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. “But I do want to say, I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,” the actress said in a statement. Having had time to sober up, Witherspoon apologized profusely for her behavior. The couple were bailed out of jail Saturday morning. An unidentified passenger in the back seat caught a cab, it said. Their car was impounded, and Witherspoon and Toth were taken to the Atlanta city jail, the report said. After several coordination tests, he was given a breathalyzer test that registered 0.139, well above the legal limit of 0.08 for a driving under the influence charge, the report said. Toth’s eyes were bloodshot and his clothing disheveled, Pyland wrote. Pyland stopped Toth, 42, after seeing him weave in and out of his lane as he drove through the city’s Buckhead community, the arrest report said. “You’re about to find out who I am,” she replied, the arrest report said.

“I answered, ‘No, I don’t need to know your name.’” “Do you know my name?” the trooper recalled Witherspoon asking him. Witherspoon was resistant but I was able to put handcuffs on her without incident due to Mr. Witherspoon’s arms to arrest her,” Pyland wrote. citizen and allowed to “stand on American ground.” Her American pride got her handcuffed. When the trooper warned her again, Witherspoon allegedly told him she was a U.S.

Witherspoon, 37, allegedly did not follow his order, getting out of the Ford Fusion instead. Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be quiet.” Witherspoon began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer,” Pyland wrote. Witherspoon, who was in Atlanta working on a movie titled “The Good Lie,” was charged with interfering with Pyland’s arrest of her husband, Hollywood agent James Toth, on a drunken driving charge. She did walk the red carpet at the movie’s New York premiere Sunday night, but she declined to talk to the media. The actress canceled plans to do interviews in New York to promote her new film “Mud” on Monday, her publicist said. While the court’s program may be relatively painless, Witherspoon is suffering from another punishment: public humiliation. “Participants are charged with minor criminal offenses, do not have prior convictions, do not have any cases pending, and have not already gone through a diversion program.” The judge set May 22 as the date for a hearing to check if she is complying with the program. The program provides “alternative methods of resolving criminal matters other than prosecution,” the court’s website said.
