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Aldon Smith arrested for DUI, hit and run and vandalism
Posted by Josh Alper on August 7, 2015
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News broke that 49ers linebacker
Aldon Smith was arrested on Friday morning, but there weren’t any details about what led him to Santa Clara County Jail.
The Santa Clara Police Department has now offered up those details. They announced via Twitter that Smith was arrested for hit and run, DUI and vandalism on Thursday night. No further information about the incident that led to the arrest was released, but a press release is expected later this morning.
Smith’s no stranger to DUI as he’s been arrested on those charges twice before. He went to rehab after his second arrest in September 2013, which led to a stay in rehab and five missed games during the 2013 season. If he’s guilty of these charges and isn’t in prison, more help should be the least of the stipulations mandated as a way to protect the rest of the population.
He missed nine more games while serving a suspension for those arrests and other off-field trouble last season. Should these charges stick, Smith will be looking at another suspension and there’s a good chance it will also mark the end of his time with the 49ers.
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Aldon Smith: Justice will be served, there was no DUI
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 7, 2015
After he was released from jail following his third drunk driving arrest, 49ers linebacker
Aldon Smithdenied that he had been driving drunk.
Smith told KGO in San Francisco this morning that he’s sorry he got himself in trouble again but he wasn’t driving under the influence.
“The people who are faithful remain faithful,” Smith said. “Simple as this: Justice will be served, the truth will come out, there’s no DUI. I’m sorry for anybody I let down, I’m sorry for the way this whole thing . . . I need to speak and I want everybody to understand, this wasn’t a DUI, the situation I had could have been handled differently and I apologize for everybody I did let down and I apologize for how it all played out. But as far as everything is concerned, it will work out the way it’s supposed to work out. That’s all.”
The Santa Clara Police Department says Smith will face charges of hit and run and vandalism in addition to DUI. Smith declined to explain what happened. He’ll just say he wasn’t driving drunk.
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49ers owner Jed York on Aldon Smith decision: “Not yet”
Posted by Darin Gantt on August 7, 2015
Aldon Smith may have made the 49ers’ decision for them with his latest arrest, or at least made it easier.
But their owner isn’t ready to declare.
Michael Silver of the NFL Network asked 49ers owner Jed York if he had made a decision on his oft-arrested outside linebacker after this morning’s arrest on DUI and other charges, and York replied: “
Not yet.”
The team could always wait and let the league handle it. But this is also likely a case of “gathering information,” as Smith has already professed his innocence on his way out of jail.
Either way, it’s safe to assume they’re not necessarily working quite as hard to keep him as they were two days ago.
