Retired NFL running back Jamal Anderson was arrested for a DUI after being found asleep behind the wheel in Atlanta in the I-85 travel lane.
Former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson is in trouble with the law, following another DUI-related arrest.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Anderson was booked after being found asleep at the wheel in the travel lane of I-85 near Atlanta, Georgia.
“I asked Anderson why he was stopped in the middle of the interstate, noting that it was extremely dangerous and asked him if he was trying to hurt himself,” the report reads. “He stated that he wasn’t trying to hurt himself and didn’t really have a good explanation as to why he had parked in the middle of the interstate.”
Anderson was ‘unsteady on his feet and had watery, bloodshot eyes’ upon being found asleep at the wheel in the highway. He offered little in the way of a legitimate answer, and subsequently refused a field sobriety test.
He was then arrested for DUI and improper stopping in the roadway.
Anderson was held at Gwinnett County jail on more than $2,000 bond and was later released.
Jamal Anderson was a popular former running back for the most successful Atlanta Falcons team in franchise history, which lost to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII. He is known as the man who created the “Dirty Bird” touchdown celebration.
For now, he’ll await his trial in the hopes of having the charges dismissed, much like he did in 2009 when facing charges for possession of cocaine and marijuana.
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