( CNN ) -- Former teen idol David Cassidy faces a drunken driving charge after his arrest early Wednesday in Schodack , New York , police said . Cassidy , 63 , was given breath and field sobriety tests after he failed to dim his car 's headlights at a police checkpoint , according to the police report . Word of the arrest surfaced on Twitter , starting with early tweets from local TV reporter Jessica Layton . He was arrested when he blew a .10 in the Breathalyzer device , the report said . The legal blood alcohol limit is .08 . The former star of the TV series `` The Partridge Family '' was released on $ 2,500 bail and ordered to appear in court on September 6 , the police report said . Cassidy , who lives in Fort Lauderdale , Florida , entered a no contest plea as a first-time offender in February 2011 to a drunken driving charge that followed a November 2010 arrest in Florida . He was sentenced to a year 's probation and his driver 's license was suspended for six months for that conviction . He also attended a DUI school , paid a $ 500 fine and served 50 hours of community service . On the TV series , Cassidy played the eldest of five children of a widowed mother ( Shirley Jones , who was Cassidy 's real-life stepmother ) . The family , all musicians , traveled to gigs in a repainted school bus . When the show was canceled after four seasons , Cassidy launched his own pop music career , filling concert halls with screaming teenage girls attracted to such hits as `` I Think I Love You . '' A more recent acting job was on the 2009 ABC Family sitcom `` Ruby & the Rockits , '' in which Cassidy played an aging former teen heartthrob . The show was canceled after one season . CNN 's Topher Gauk-Roger contributed to this report .
Cassidy was tested after he failed to dim his car 's headlights at a police checkpoint . The former star of the TV series `` The Partridge Family '' was released on $ 2,500 bail . Cassidy pleaded no contest as a first-time offender to a Florida DUI charge in 2011 .