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Following up on an ongoing story. ... Ward had glassy, bloodshot eyes and failed field sobriety tests during a traffic stop in Atlanta that landed him a drunken driving charge, according to a police report released Monday. Ward swayed back and forth and became agitated during the sobriety tests, the report says. He also could not keep his balance and mixed up and omitted letters in the alphabet, the report says.
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A transit police officer pulled Ward over just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday after he left his lane and at one point hit a curb in his gray Aston Martin, the report says. The transit police officer called a DeKalb County police officer, who wrote in the report that the former Super Bowl MVP champ smelled strongly of alcohol. Ward told the officer he had had two bottles of Corona beer three hours earlier. Atlanta lawyer Andrew Ree on Saturday released a statement saying the 35-year-old Ward was not impaired by alcohol while driving and cooperated fully with police. Ree told the Associated Press in an email Monday that he stands by the earlier statement and had no further comment. After failing several field sobriety tests, Ward was arrested and booked into the DeKalb County jail and was later released on bond. Ward is set to appear Oct. 6 in DeKalb County State Court. He faces a misdemeanor driving under the influence charge, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Ward just might find himself visiting commissioner Roger Goodell, too.
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