Sherman charged with DUI following '24 arrest

SEATTLE -- Former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman was charged with DUI connected Tuesday successful transportation with a February 2024 arrest, a spokesperson with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office told ESPN.

The misdemeanor complaint was filed 1 time aft the KCPAO received the blood-test results from the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab that were taken the nighttime of the arrest. Sherman registered a BAC of astir 0.11, supra the state's ineligible bounds of 0.08.

He's scheduled to beryllium arraigned June 30.

Shortly earlier 2 a.m. connected Feb. 24, 2024, Sherman was pulled implicit aft a Washington State Patrol serviceman allegedly clocked his Tesla traveling 79 mph successful a 60 mph portion and veering successful its lane connected Interstate 405 successful Renton, astir 12 miles eastbound of Seattle.

The WSP serviceman who helped respond to the postulation halt reported that helium observed Sherman's eyes to beryllium bloodshot and watery, and that helium noticed "the odor of intoxicants" coming from Sherman's breath. Sherman refused a enactment trial astatine the country and again astatine a WSP bureau earlier being taken to a infirmary for a humor draw.

In 2022, Sherman pleaded blameworthy to negligent driving successful the archetypal grade and transgression trespass successful the 2nd degree. Those misdemeanor charges stemmed from a July 2021 incidental successful which helium allegedly drove his SUV into a closed operation site, fled the country and past attempted to interruption down the beforehand doorway of his in-laws' home.

Sherman, 37, made the Pro Bowl 5 times during an 11-year NFL vocation and was a subordinate of the famed Legion of Boom defence that helped the Seahawks triumph Super Bowl XLVIII. He past played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful 2011, and began moving arsenic an expert for Amazon Prime's broadcasts of Thursday nighttime NFL games successful 2022.

Earlier this month, the KCPAO charged a Seattle antheral with a drawstring of burglaries astatine the homes of existent and erstwhile nonrecreational athletes, including Sherman's.