West Virginia’s Bob Huggins Arrested, Charged With Drunken Driving
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Bob Huggins, the men’s basketball coach at West Virginia, was arrested in Pittsburgh on Friday and charged with driving under the influence.
According to a post on the police department’s public safety site, officers in Pittsburgh found Huggins blocking traffic in a black S.U.V. just before 8:30 p.m. Huggins’s door was open, and the car had “a flat and shredded tire.”
The police instructed Huggins to move his vehicle off the road, which he struggled to do. He failed field sobriety tests and was arrested.
According to the criminal complaint, the police found a white bag full of empty beer cans on the floor of Huggins’s car. Another white bag full of cans was found in the trunk. When the police asked Huggins where he was, he replied “Columbus,” which the officers took to mean that he thought he was in Ohio. Huggins blew a 0.210 on the breathalyzer, nearly three times the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.08 in Pennsylvania.
Huggins has since been released from custody. The university said in a statement Saturday morning that it was aware of the incident and was in the process of gathering more information.
Source: The New York Times
