NEW YORK, Aug 11 (AFP) - CBS news legend Mike Wallace, the 86-year-old mainstay of the network's "60 Minutes" program, was arrested for disorderly conduct after a confrontation over double-parking in New York, police said Wednesday.
Wallace was handcuffed and hauled to a police station on Tuesday night by two Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) inspectors who claimed the veteran correspondent had "lunged" at them.
The altercation occurred when Wallace emerged from a midtown Manhattan restaurant to find the officers questioning the driver of his car, which was registered with the commission and allegedly double-parked.
"Finally, there was a little bit of a conversation, then they cuffed me and charged me with disorderly conduct and took me down to the (police) station," Wallace told reporters.
He was given a summons for disorderly conduct and was released less than an hour after the confrontation. He is due in court in October.
The TLC insists that Wallace was aggressive and disrespectful to its inspectors and that, at one point, he lunged at one of them.
Wallace told the New York Post that it was the first time he had been in handcuffs since the 1968 Democratic convention, when he was arrested while covering a Vietnam War protest.