TYSON ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED DRINK DRIVING AND DRUGS

Last updated: Saturday, December 30, 2006

TYSON ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED DRINK DRIVING AND DRUGS

Former heavyweight boxing champion MIKE TYSON has been released on bail and will be charged with felony drug possession after being arrested on Friday (29DEC06).

MIKE TYSON

Police in Arizona stopped Tyson, 40, after he left a Scottsdale nightclub at 1:45 am on Friday and his car nearly collided with a sheriff's vehicle.

According to Sgt LARRY HALL, "He showed signs of impairment and voluntarily submitted to field sobriety tests."

Tyson showed "more signs of impairment" during the tests and was subsequently arrested and booked at a Maricopa County sheriff's jail after officers allegedly found cocaine on Tyson and in his car.

According to website TMZ.com, the arresting officer said that after stopping Tyson he "stated he is an addict and has a problem".

Tests reveal he was "under the influence of a depressant, stimulant and cannabis".

The boxer's most famous brush with the law was a rape conviction that landed him in jail from 1992 to 1995 for a 1991 sexual assault on a woman in an Indiana hotel room.

Earlier this year (06), Tyson checked into rehab at a treatment facility in Arizona.

Source: WENN

| Saturday, December 30, 2006

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