Pete Davidson Plans F.D.N.Y. Community Service to Resolve Crash Case

Pete Davidson, the comic, actor and former “Saturday Night Live” solid member, has reached an settlement that enables him to resolve a reckless driving cost in California by doing neighborhood service with the New York Fire Department, officers mentioned on Monday.

Mr. Davidson is a Staten Island native whose father, Scott, was a New York City firefighter who died whereas responding to the World Trade Center assaults on Sept. 11, 2001 — an expertise that helped inform Mr. Davidson’s 2020 movie, “The King of Staten Island.”

The reckless driving cost, a misdemeanor, was filed towards Mr. Davidson final month by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. It mentioned he crashed a Mercedes-Benz right into a home close to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills in March, The Los Angeles Times reported. No one was injured, The Times reported.

On July 19, a decide positioned Mr. Davidson into an 18-month diversion program, in accordance with an announcement from the district lawyer’s workplace on Monday. He should pay restitution, attend 12 hours of site visitors college, go to a morgue to study what occurs to victims of reckless driving, and carry out 50 hours of neighborhood service.

Mr. Davidson’s lawyer has indicated that the neighborhood service “is likely to be completed at” the New York Fire Department, the assertion mentioned. Details of the diversion program have been reported earlier by TMZ.

A lawyer for Mr. Davidson didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Amanda Farinacci, a Fire Department spokeswoman, referred to as Mr. Davidson “the son of a 9/11 hero” and, with out providing particulars, mentioned the division “would be happy to provide” him an opportunity to finish his service. (Mr. Davidson can even full the diversion program’s different phrases in New York, the district lawyer’s workplace mentioned.)

A stand-up comedian earlier than becoming a member of the “Saturday Night Live” solid in fall 2014, Mr. Davidson left the NBC present after the season finale final 12 months. His most up-to-date undertaking is the streaming collection “Bupkis.”

Doing his neighborhood service in New York might enable Mr. Davidson to inspect one other undertaking tied to his Staten Island roots: a decommissioned ferry that he and Colin Jost, a fellow “Saturday Night Live” solid member — and fellow Staten Islander — purchased final 12 months with different buyers for $280,000.

One imaginative and prescient for the growing older vessel concerned turning it into what one of many buyers referred to as an “arts and entertainment venue.” But Mr. Davidson sounded unsure concerning the ferry’s future in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” final month.

“I have no idea what’s going on with that thing,” he mentioned. “Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry. And we’re figuring it out.”