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Brady Henderson
SEATTLE — Former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman was charged with DUI on Tuesday in reference to a February 2024 arrest, a spokesperson with the King County Prosecuting Legal professional’s Workplace informed ESPN.
The gross misdemeanor cost was filed at some point after the KCPAO obtained the blood-test outcomes from the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab that have been taken the evening of the arrest. Sherman registered a blood alcohol stage of round 0.11, above the state’s authorized restrict of 0.08.
He is scheduled to be arraigned June 30.
Shortly earlier than 2 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2024, Sherman was pulled over after a Washington State Patrol officer allegedly clocked his Tesla touring 79 mph in a 60 mph zone and veering in its lane on Interstate 405 in Renton, about 12 miles east of Seattle.
The WSP officer who helped reply to the visitors cease reported that he noticed Sherman’s eyes to be bloodshot and watery, and that he observed “the odor of intoxicants” coming from Sherman’s breath. Sherman refused a breath take a look at on the scene and once more at a WSP workplace earlier than being taken to a hospital for a blood draw.
The gross misdemeanor cost towards Sherman consists of an enhancement for refusing a breath take a look at.
In accordance with the KCPAO, it isn’t unusual for blood-test outcomes to take months to return again from the WSP Crime Lab on account of its capability and elevated caseload.
In 2022, Sherman pleaded responsible to negligent driving within the first diploma and prison trespass within the second diploma. These misdemeanor fees stemmed from a July 2021 incident wherein he allegedly drove his SUV right into a closed development website, fled the scene after which tried to interrupt down the entrance door of his in-laws’ dwelling.
Sherman, 37, made the Professional Bowl 5 occasions throughout an 11-year NFL profession and was a member of the famed Legion of Increase protection that helped the Seahawks win Tremendous Bowl XLVIII. He final performed for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2011 and started working as an analyst for Amazon Prime’s broadcasts of Thursday evening NFL video games in 2022.
Earlier this month, the KCPAO charged a Seattle man with a string of burglaries on the houses of present and former skilled athletes, together with Sherman’s.
