Cassidy scored .19 % on an alcohol test , the California Highway Patrol says . The singer - songwriter was charged with drunken driving in 2010 in Florida and 2013 in New York . The CHP stopped his car after an illegal turn near the Los Angeles airport , it says . On the TV series , Cassidy played the eldest of five children of a widowed mother ( Shirley Jones , who was Cassidy 's real-life stepmother ) . Cassidy appeared in the 1970s TV series ` ` The Partridge Family ''
Cassidy scored .19 % on an alcohol test , the California Highway Patrol says . The singer - songwriter was charged with drunken driving in 2010 in Florida and 2013 in New York . The CHP stopped his car after an illegal turn near the Los Angeles airport , it says . Cassidy appeared in the 1970s TV series ` ` The Partridge Family ''