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That's turrible.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...dQKbwD95DN4JO0SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Charles Barkley was arrested on su ion of drinking and driving early Wednesday morning.
An officer with a law enforcement task force that targets drunken driving saw the former NBA star run a stop sign around 1:30 a.m., said Gilbert police Lt. Eric Shuhandler.
Barkley declined to submit to a breath test but was given a blood test. The results weren't immediately available.
After Barkley was processed, he was cited and released. He left in a cab, Shuhandler said.
Shuhandler said there was nothing remarkable about Barkley's arrest and that it is customary to release people after they've been arrested on su ion of DUI.
"There was nothing unusual about how he was taken into custody," Shuhandler said. "He was treated exactly like we treat anybody else."
Barkley was arrested in Scottsdale's Old Town area, one of the trendiest spots in the Phoenix metro area.
Barkley played 16 NBA seasons for the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets, and played on the USA Olympic "Dream Team" in 1992 and 1996. He was an 11-time NBA All-Star and league MVP in 1993.
That's turrible.
Just because I can dunk a basketball, doesn't mean I am role model.
I am not a role model.
I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
Triple word score.
He's a knucklehead.
With all his money - take a cab!
how many hours do you take to play video games a week?
I told Chuck not to drink and drive.
he does what he wants.. who are the police thinking they are trying to stop him? Hes Sir charles
Good
well i'm glad no one was hurt, but this kinda sends a tingle up my leg. i wish i could laugh in this mans' face. i'm glad this will delay, or totally kill his chance to run for and public office. merry f'n new year, chucky.
Hopefully this doesn't interfere with his time on TNT. I'd hate to break up the dream team.
he lost his cab money playing pool
He's a up. A pretentious one. Glad they nailed his drunk ass.
Could not have happend to a bigger idiot.
So will we get the big sit down with EJ where he apologizes like he did with the gambling thing?
One thing that surprises me is that any scandal any player in the league gets involved in, the league puts it under a magnifying glass, then worries about the image of the NBA.
Yet one of their most popular spokespeople is constantly getting involved in controversies such as gambling and drinking, yet it seems to be swept under the rug because it's somehow expected of them. Even Jordan battled a lot of demons that people don't bring into conversation anymore.
I like Chuck, but that's a pretty boneheaded mistake.
He did, when he got out of jail.
He was speeding because he wanted a blowjob. Hahahaha.
This may be the very best police report of 2008. When Charles Barkley was busted in Arizona early this morning for DUI, he told cops he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to get some oral sex.
The cops stopped Barkley after he allegedly ran a stop sign. According to the officer who wrote the report, "He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl I saw get in the passenger seat."
The officer continues: "He asked me to admit that she was 'hot.' He asked me, 'You want the truth?' When I told him I did he said, 'I was gonna drive around the corner and get a b**w job. He then explained that she had given him a 'b**w job' one week earlier and said it was the best one he had ever had in his life."
The report says when Barkley was taken to the station, he told one of the employees, "I'll tattoo my name on your ass" if he helped "get him out of the DUI." According to the report, "He laughed and then quickly corrected himself and said, 'I'll tattoo your name on my ass' and then laughed again."
The report also says officers "found a handgun in the vehicle" which was immediately impounded. The report doesn't say if the handgun was legal or not, and the only thing that we know for sure was loaded...
I feel ya...and hopefully he wasn't DUI either
Did I do that?
Former Phoenix Suns player and NBA star Charles Barkley told police he was in a hurry to receive oral sex from a female passenger when he ran through a stop sign drunk early Wednesday, a police report states.
The report, released late Wednesday by Gilbert police, details how Barkley not only made candid references to his impending rendezvous with an unnamed woman for oral sex, but also how he at least half-seriously implored a civilian police employee to help him get out of the DUI bust.
The 11-time NBA All-Star was arrested, cited and released on su ion of misdemeanor DUI and being impaired to the slightest degree. Gilbert police Lt. Pete Smith pulled over Barkley's black Infiniti SUV at 1:30 a.m. after it rolled through a stop sign at about 10 mph near 75th Street and 6th Avenue in Scottsdale.
"He was very respectful and very cooperative," said Gilbert police Lt. Eric Shuhandler. "It was a very routine DUI arrest."
Smith was one of dozens of East Valley DUI Taskforce officers from 10 different police agencies who have been combing area streets for suspected drunk drivers since Thanksgiving. Barkley's was one of 90 DUI arrests made Tuesday night in Scottsdale alone.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Barkley said he was "disappointed that I put myself in that situation. The Scottsdale police were fantastic. Now it is a legal matter and I will not comment any further as it is a legal matter."
The reference to Scottsdale police reflects Barkley's apparent lack of knowledge about the regional DUI task force and how the arresting officer's department assumes jurisdiction for an arrest no matter where it occurred.
Smith was in an unmarked patrol car when the SUV roll passed the stop sign, the police report states. The SUV stopped just south of the intersection and a female climbed into the passenger seat.
Smith pulled over Barkley, who blocked the southbound lane and had bloodshot, watery eyes and had the smell of alcohol on his breath, the report states.
"I asked if he had been drinking and he said, 'Yes I have,'" Smith writes in the report. Barkley then admitted to having a "couple" drinks.
Smith gave Barkley a field sobriety test, which he failed, Shuhandler said. At the advice of his body guard, who Barkley said was a police officer, the basketball star refused to take a portable breathalyzer test but submitted to a blood test.
Those results will not be available for another week.
While being processed at the East Valley DUI Taskforce command post, Barkley told police, "I was going to drive around the corner and get" oral sex, the report states. He explained he had engaged in oral sex with the same woman last week, the report added.
He then told civilian employee, "I'll tattoo your name on my ass" if it would get him out of the DUI, according to the report.
Shortly before leaving the command post in a taxi cab because his SUV was towed, Barkley shook hands with several officers, Shuhandler said.
Barkley was returning from the Dirty Pretty Rock Bar near Camelback and Miller roads where he spent about three hours with a large group of 40 people, said owner Ryan Jocque. The party included actor Jaleel White, who played TV nerd Steve Urkel from the 1990s sitcom Family Matters, and football player Michael Strahan.
"Charles is a very good customer of ours," Jocque said.
Despite a turbulent end to the year, Shuhandler said he hoped the former Phoenix Sun star would turn the negative experience into a positive, Shuhandler said.
"He has a chance to do something good with this. I hope he does," Shuhandler said.
A court date in Scottsdale Municipal Court has yet to be scheduled.
Nicknamed "Sir Charles," Barkley was an 11-time NBA All-Star and league MVP in 1993. He played 16 NBA seasons for the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets, and played on the USA Olympic "Dream Team" in 1992 and 1996.
Charles is buried deeply in debt. He needed some money to pay off the debt so that he turned to bet, but the result was that he gained more debt.
The only good thing he's ever done is just making some correct comments on Yao who is really as weak as he has described.
What video games? My games suck ass man. My 2k9 pc game got that stupid inbounds glitch. I don't play it anymore.
Charles will be an awesome Governor for the State of Alabama someday. If this incident doesn't bite him in the ass.
Which it will
Lebron needs to call him stupid.
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