Pete Davidson, the comic, actor and former “Saturday Night Live” solid member, has reached an settlement that permits him to resolve a reckless driving cost in California by doing group 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 in opposition to 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 choose 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 find out about what occurs to victims of reckless driving, and carry out 50 hours of group service.

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

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

Amanda Farinacci, a Fire Department spokeswoman, known 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 also can 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 show after the season finale final 12 months. His most up-to-date challenge is the streaming sequence “Bupkis.”

Doing his group service in New York may permit Mr. Davidson to investigate cross-check one other challenge 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 ageing vessel concerned turning it into what one of many buyers known as an “arts and entertainment venue.” But Mr. Davidson sounded unsure in regards to 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.”