The Las Vegas Raiders are dealing with another drunk driving arrest.
Three years after wide receiver and first-round pick Henry Ruggs III killed a woman and her dog in a fiery car crash in Las Vegas, TMZ reports that Raiders defensive end Charles Snowden has been charged with DUI in Nevada.
Court records obtained by TMZ show Snowden faces a single misdemeanor charge.
8 news from Las Vegas now reported that Snowden, 26, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center early Tuesday morning and released. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested Snowden on Rainbow Boulevard near Sunset Road on the city’s southwest side after witnesses reported a “suspicious vehicle.”
Raiders spokespersons did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Snowden, 26, who went undrafted out of Virginia, is in his first full season in the NFL. Although undrafted, the Maryland native has carved out a role for the Raiders after serving on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ practice squad in 2022.
Raiders defensive end Charles Snowden has been charged with DUI in Nevada
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested Snowden on Rainbow Boulevard near Sunset Road on the city’s southwest side after witnesses reported a “suspicious vehicle.”
Snowden’s arrest comes three years after the most notorious drunk driving incident in NFL history.
Ruggs was sentenced in 2023 to at least three years in prison in Nevada for killing Tina Tintor, 23, in a fiery crash while driving his sports car drunk at speeds of up to 156 mph on a city street.
“I sincerely apologize,” the former NFL first-round draft pick said while appearing for sentencing in Las Vegas after pleading guilty in 2023 to felony DUI causing death and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. a charge that carries a six-month jail sentence that will be doubled with his prison sentence of three to 10 years.
Ruggs, now 25, was cut by the Raiders while still hospitalized following the crash that occurred before dawn on Nov. 2, 2021. The collision killed Tintor and his dog, Max, and injured Ruggs’ passenger, Kiara. Je’nai Kilgo-Washington, his fiancée and mother of his daughter.
“I have no excuses,” Ruggs said, citing the pain the case has caused his family, his teammates and Tintor’s family. Ruggs said that after prison, he intends to counsel others “about the dangers of driving at an unsafe speed and of driving and drinking.”
In a statement read in court by Tintor’s cousin David Strbac, Tintor’s mother, Mirjana Komazec, offered pain, grace and memories of “what it was like to hold her and hold her, knowing we will never be able to kiss her.” on her forehead or tell her how much we love her and how absolutely proud we are of her.’
Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III’s case has been delayed by a court issue
Tina Tintor, 23, ‘died from thermal injuries due to a car collision’ in November 2021
Ruggs (left) and his girlfriend, Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washington (right), were injured in the crash.
“We pray that Henry Ruggs is lucky enough to have the opportunity to watch his beautiful daughter grow into the incredible woman she can be,” Komazec’s statement read.
‘And we pray that this terrible accident inspires positive change in the world. We pray that we all take away the importance of caring for one another, remembering that everyone we meet is a loved one of another human being.’
In court papers leading up to the sentencing, Ruggs’ attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, included letters from high school administrators and teachers in Montgomery, Alabama, praising Ruggs, and testimony from Alabama Democratic state Rep. Phillip Ensler.
‘Mister. “Ruggs is a man of good character who made a terrible mistake,” the attorneys said in the filing memo. “His remorse is deep and sincere.”
His plea deal avoided a trial that Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said posed obstacles to conviction because Ruggs was not given a field sobriety test after the crash and his defense attorneys argued that Ruggs’ blood alcohol test was obtained incorrectly at the hospital.
Wolfson, a Democrat, said the blood test provided “virtually” the only evidence that Ruggs was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.
It revealed that Ruggs had a blood alcohol level of 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit in Nevada, after the rear-end crash caused a fire in Tintor’s Toyota Rav 4.