Matt Hardy's Legal Troubles
Troubled wrestling star Matt Hardy is facing a tag team of legal troubles this week after being charged in Wake County with driving while impaired - his second arrest in less than a month.
Police at Raleigh-Durham International Airport stopped Hardy's car after receiving reports of a 2011 red Chevrolet Camaro swerving through traffic.
A caller said the car nearly hit two vehicles three times, according to a police report.
When officers pulled over the Camaro, they found 36-year-old Matthew Moore Hardy, of the 300 block of Boys Camp Road in Cameron, behind the wheel, the report said.
According to a police report, Hardy's speech was slurred and he appeared to be trying to "speak normally." When officers asked him to step out of the car, Hardy first tried to leave his seat without putting the vehicle in park, the report said.
The former World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action wrestler said he was at the airport to pick up his girlfriend, 24-year-old Florida model Rebecca Victoria Reyes.
Police said a breathalyzer test was negative for the presence of alcohol.
Hardy was unable to walk more than a few steps on a straight line, toe-to-toe, without stumbling and failed a field sobriety test.
A North Carolina Highway Patrol drug recognition officer examined Hardy and determined he was likely under the influence of drugs, the police report said.
Hardy was charged with driving while impaired, and blood was drawn for lab analysis. Police took him to the Wake County Detention Center, where he was released on his own recognizance.
He is scheduled to appear in District Court in Raleigh on Nov. 30.
State troopers charged Hardy on Aug. 20 with driving while impaired after he crashed his 2009 Chevrolet Corvette into a tree about a half-mile south of Vass in Moore County. The trooper reported that Hardy's breathalyzer test didn't detect alcohol, but Hardy appeared to be under the influence of a substance.
He is scheduled to appear in court on that charge Sept. 28.
The day before his first arrest, Hardy was involved in a crash with his 2006 Cadillac on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines. An officer found that he had run the car off the road and crashed into a guard rail near South Bennett Street.
Hardy told the officer that another car ran him off the road, causing him to crash. He said the offender driver then sped off, according to the accident report. He was not cited.
After the arrest in August, TNA Wrestling fired Hardy, who already was on probation with the company.
Hardy is a former member of the famous Hardy Boyz wrestling team with his younger brother Jeff Hardy.
Jeff Hardy pleaded guilty last week to three felony drug charges and was sentenced to serve 10 days in jail and pay a $100,000 fine, followed by 30 months on probation.
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