at 17:08 on July 28, 2006, EST.

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Mel Gibson was arrested early Friday for suspicion of driving under the influence, a sheriff's department spokesman said.

Gibson's vehicle was speeding eastbound on the Pacific Coast Highway when officers stopped him at 2:36 a.m., sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Gibson, 50, was booked at the Lost Hills sheriff's station at 4:06 a.m., according to department records. The actor-director was cited and released, Whitmore said. Bail was set at $5,000.

"The investigation is ongoing," Whitmore said. "As we would do with anyone, we don't want to release any more since the information is fragmentary."

Gibson's spokesman, Alan Nierob, said he was looking into the matter.

Gibson won a best-director Oscar for 1995's Braveheart.

Like his 2004 religious blockbuster, The Passion of the Christ, which was shot in Aramaic and Latin, his new film, Apocalypto, was done in an ancient tongue, Yucatec Maya.

Gibson has starred in the Lethal Weapon and Mad Max films, What Women Want and The Man Without a Face, among other movies.


©The Canadian Press, 2006

Drunken bum!!

Mel think of your wife and all your kids!!

I wonder if he was on his way to that church he built and funds for his father and his father's fellow anti-Semite wacko conspiracy nuts. From the New York Times:



He's also a Holocaust-denier.

Mel remains mum on whether or not he shares his father's views (Gee, I wonder why that could be? ).

I say let this idiotic douchebag drive into a tree.

He was doing this type of stuff wayyyyy back in the 80's when he was still young and cool. Maybe he's trying to relive his lost youth.

Where's his Messiah now?

Oh,
for the passion of the Christ's sake.!

C'mon you guys! It was JESUS JUICE!

WWJD?

Shame on Mel- drinking and driving kills!

Mel Gibson will be a new addition to the Celebrity Mug Shots Gallery.






Too bad.



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Illustrator said:

It's the Passion of the Cristal

Nothinbutjoy said:

It can't be a NEW addition, it must be YET ANOTHER because this has happened before. Around the time he was filming Ms. Soffel (sp?), I think.

jtfolden said:

The Mug Shot "Where are they now" then???