Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis seen getting a ticket for running a stop light on his motorcycle on a California highway

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has been spotted having a run in with the law. 

DailyMail.com spotted Kiedis, 61, looking defeated as he was handed a ticket by a California Highway Patrol officer for running a red light. 

Kiedis was seen on his BMW motorcycle cruiser with his hand under his chin as he waited for the officer to write up the ticket. 

Despite his best efforts to charm his way out of trouble, Kiedis was slapped with the citation before hopping back on the road. 

DailyMail.com spotted musician Anthony Kiedis, 61, getting a ticket by a California Highway Patrol officer for running a red light

The singer looked defeated as he was handed the ticket and rode away to his destination 

Kiedis was seen on his BMW motorcycle cruiser with his hand under his chin as he waited for the officer to write up the ticket

Despite his best efforts to charm his way out of trouble, Kiedis was slapped with the citation before hopping back on the road

The singer wore all black and was safe in a helmet, white bandana and dark sunglasses

The Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman was cruising down Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway on his BMW cruiser this week before being pulled over

The singer wore all black, a white bandana and dark sunglasses and was safe in a helmet.

The sighting comes as it was revealed earlier this year that an Anthony Kiedis biopic is in the works at Universal Pictures.

The rights to his 2004 memoir Scar Tissue has been optioned by the movie production company, with Kiedis set to produce the feature film.

The rights to the  frontman's 2004 memoir Scar Tissue has been optioned by the movie production company, with Kiedis set to produce the feature film

The movie - which is currently in early development - will also be produced by Brian Grazer, and Guy Oseary, reports Deadline.

Scar Tissue went to the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list when it was first released in 2004. 

In Kiedis' acclaimed book, he wrote about his unconventional relationship with his father, who was addicted to drugs and shared them with his son.

The tome also covers the passing of founding Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose aged 26.

But Kiedis has previously admitted he had regrets about penning the memoir, which once caused a rift with his bandmate Flea after he revealed in the book he had slept with his pal's sister.

In 2016, Kiedis told The Sun : 'I did regret the book for a while as there was some pain caused. But then, I started seeing the long-term positive reverberating. People were reading it in hospitals, in prisons and schools and it was having a positive effect.

'I realized that the whole point of writing that book wasn't for me, but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive, successful happy interesting life.

'And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through, then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it.'

Kiedis has fronted the multi platinum selling band since they formed in the late 1980s, frequently aappearing shirtless on stage during concerts.

He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and raised in Los Angeles from the age of 12.

Kiedis has fronted the multi platinum selling band since they began performing in the late 1980s

During the band's heyday, Kiedis regularly performed shirtless. He is pictured a Slane Castle in Ireland in 2001

The group - Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith - are seen in 2022

He spent much of his musical career writing lyrics about his experiences in the city. 

Kiedis co-founded Red Hot Chili Peppers with guitarist Slovak, bassist Flea (Michael Balzary) and drummer Jack Irons in 1982.

The group has sold over 120 million records sold worldwide, scored nine Top 10 albums, won six Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

In his memoir Kiedis revealed he accidentally tried heroin for the first time at age 14, mistaking it for cocaine.

He was in a relationship with Heather Christie from 2004 to 2008. They have one son, Everly Bear Kiedis, 16.