Kurt Angle Arrested For DWI
Posted by David Damage on Monday, September 5, 2011
Under: News
TMZ.com
is reporting that TNA champion Kurt Angle was arrested early this
morning and charged with DWI in Virginia. Virginia State Troopers
responded to a call from another motorist who observed Angle's vehicle
alleged swerving between lanes on I-66. Angle was traveling from that
evening's TNA house show, where he had defeated AJ Styles.
Angle was arrested but later released from Warren County Jail after posting a $2,000 bond.
Angle has been arrested for similar charges several times in the past.
In March 2011, Angle was arrested in Grand Forks, North Dakota after
failing a field sobriety test and allegedly operating his car while
intoxicated after being found sitting in the middle of a median
separating lanes. Angle was arrested and charged with being in control
of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Since he wasn't seen driving the
car by police, they could not charge him with a DUI. Angle claimed
publicly via his Twitter account that he has slid out on an icy patch of
road, something that the police discounted at the time. Ironically
enough, Angle claimed that TMZ "blew the story out of proportion."
Angle later plead guilty to a charge of reckless driving for the
incident as part of a plea deal on 4/8 of this year. Under the terms of
that deal, Angle paid a $475 fine, would have to serve a year of
unsupervised probation and undergo a chemical dependency evaluation. He
also received a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail. There is no word
yet how this most recent arrest could impact his current probation for
the North Dakota arrest.
Angle was also arrested in Moon
Township, PA in 2007 on a DUI charge after police received a report of
an erratic driver leaving a local bar. Angle was the charged with
driving under the influence and careless driving after police traced the
description of the car to his home. In that case, Angle was later found
not guilty on those charges when the complaining witness was unable to
corroborate her story.
Angle was also arrested in 2009 on a
number of assault and harassment-related charges involving former
girlfriend Tranesha "Rhaka Khan" Biggers, although in the end those
charges were all dropped. At the time, Angle was charged with driving
with a suspended license, as a result of the license never being
reinstated after his 2007 court case was resolved. That charge was also
resolved.
It should be interesting to see what TNA's reaction,
if any, is to this latest arrest as they released Matt Hardy (who was
under suspension at the time) for his DWI arrest several weeks ago in
North Carolina.
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