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Barkley Headed To Tent City
POSTED: 4:23 pm MST February 23,
2009
UPDATED: 1:59 pm MST February 24,
2009
PHOENIX -- Valley resident Charles Barkley will spend up to 10 days in the Tent City jail, according to a public information officer from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Barkley pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of drunken driving and was sentenced to a maximum of ten days in jail, according to an e-mail from a city of Scottsdale representative.The sentence, which will start March 21, will be trimmed to five days if he completes an alcohol rehab program, said city spokesman Mike Phillips. He will also pay $2,000 in fines.Under Arizona law, he'll also be forced to install an ignition interlock device on his vehicles, Phillips said.His attorney was not immediately available for comment.Blood tests revealed the former Phoenix Suns star was well above the legal standard for intoxication when he was cited on suspicion of drunken driving on New Year's Eve, police said.The test results revealed Barkley had a 0.149 blood-alcohol content, police said. The legal limit is 0.08.Barkley, 45, was pulled over in his 2005 Infiniti near 75th Street and 6th Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. for failure to stop at a stop sign by the officer working a DUI task force patrol in Old Town Scottsdale, one of the trendiest spots in the Phoenix area.During his interview with police, Barkley admitted to running the stop sign because he was in a hurry to drive around the corner to collect a sexual favor from a girl he had an encounter with, a police report said.Barkley failed standard field sobriety tests after the officer smelled alcohol on him, and he was arrested, the report said. Barkley declined to submit to a breath test, the report said.Barkley was detained and taken to the mobile processing command post where he was processed, cited on a charge of DUI and released, police said.
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