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St. Louis Cardinals beat reporter Matthew Leach wrote the following:

JUPITER, Fla. — Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was arrested overnight for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, a misdemeanor in the state of Florida, the Jupiter Police Department said Thursday.

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According to police, La Russa was arrested at approximately midnight ET on Wednesday night/Thursday morning at the intersection of Frederick Small Boulevard and Military Trail in Jupiter. Undercover officers noticed that the manager’s vehicle stopped, but his car was running at the intersection, sitting through two cycles of a traffic light.

When Jupiter police officers approached the vehicle, they saw La Russa “slumped over in the driver's seat” and knocked on the window. After the knocks were not met with a response, a field officer came to the scene.

After further knocking on the window, La Russa responded. He was given standard field sobriety tests, and the officers believed they had probable cause to arrest the manager on suspicion of DUI.

When La Russa was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail, he underwent a breath test and was determined to have a blood alcohol level of .093, higher than Florida's legal limit of .08.

He was booked at Palm Beach County's Main Detention center at 4:07 a.m. ET and held until approximately 8 a.m.

...I’ve been a hardcore Cardinals fan for almost 20 years. All that I can ask is, “How the fuck could you be so stupid?”

Reference
▪ MLB.com