Eko of a Traffic Arrest

The Lost crew certainly know how to find themselves in traffic court.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays the possibly deceased moose wrangler cum doctor Mr. Eko, was arrested early Saturday morning in Waikiki, becoming the third cast member from the hit ABC show to be arrested on a traffic violation.

The 39-year-old Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who also starred in Get Rich or Die Tryin', was picked up at 2:25 a.m. for disobeying a cop and driving without a license, after which he spent six hours in jail before posting $500 bail. He is scheduled to appear in district court Sept. 26.

The fact that Akinnuoye-Agbaje was on the island of Oahu at all is a pretty decent indicator that he'll be showing up for Lost's third season, despite his having been down in the hatch with Desmond and Locke as an electromagnetic force of indeterminate origin tore through the space and subjected everyone else on the island to a bright white light and a high-pitched noise.

Some of Eko's fellow Tailies haven't been so lucky. Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros, who also got more than a glimpse of the inside of a Hawaiian jail last year after being arrested on DUI charges, were both killed off of the show in May, victims of Michael's stop-at-nothing plan to find Walt.

Watros, who played mental patient/pretend-clinical psychologist Libby, and Rodriguez, who portrayed the surly Ana Lucia, failed sobriety tests within 15 minutes of each other Dec. 2 on Oahu's Pali Highway. Both were taken into custody and released on $500 bail.

But while Watros pleaded guilty to one DUI charge in January and received a fine and counseling and had her driver's license suspended for 90 days, Rodriguez had previously racked up two speeding tickets in Honolulu and was on probation for two driving-related incidents in Los Angeles. She ended up pleading guilty and opting to spend five days in a Hawaiian jail, coughing up a $500 fine rather than performing 240 hours of community service.

Back in L.A. Rodriguez admitted she had violated the terms of her probation and was sentenced to 60 days in county jail. Due to overcrowding and the fact that she was a nonviolent offender, however, the Fast and the Furious star was only locked up for four hours and 27 minutes on May 25 before she was sent on her merry, yet hopefully slower, way.

Lost's creators denied that Rodriguez's legal woes had anything to do with her character getting bumped off. Then again, if they reacted every time a cast member violated a law, there'd be no one left to discover just what the Others are up to. Except Walt, that is. He's too young to drive.

Per the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, at least six other castaways have had run-ins on the mean (and kinda slow-moving) streets of Hawaii:

Sawyer: Josh Holloway paid $153 in fines for going 53 miles-per-hour in a 35 mph zone Sept. 21, 2005. Charlie: Dominic Monaghan has had two speeding tickets that have ended up costing him $324 in fines. A citation issued Mar. 10 for driving without a valid license has since been dismissed. Sayid: Naveen Andrews had to shell out $122 after breezing through a 45 mph zone at 70 mph Oct. 15, 2004. He then topped himself Mar. 9, 2005, going 70 in a 35 mph area. Andrews pleaded no contest and paid $232. Boone: Ian Somerhalder was lucky to not meet the same fate as his Lost character, after going 42 in a 25 mph zone. He shelled out $202 and landed a role in the Wi-Fi horror flick Pulse. Steve: Christian Bowman, who first came to light when it was time to dig Jack out of a collapsed cave in season one, was fined $112 for going 53 mph in a 35 mph zone. He wrote a letter to the court, and the citation was reduced to 48 mph. Michael: Harold Perrineau Jr. got a ticket for having no car insurance and no safety check. Case dismissed after the actor was able to produce proof of insurance.

We think it's about time ABC cuts its losses and commissions a bus to ferry the large cast around.