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Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Charles Snowden During his DUI arrest last month, police video shows that one officer actually thought the football player was “too drunk to even stop.”
Snowden’s run-in with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department occurred at 11:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in Sin City … after police say they found him passed out in his Jeep Grand Cherokee. at the helm of
The body cam footage that was captured TMZ Sportsshows that the SUV was actually impaled on a retaining wall … and despite multiple attempts to wake him up and turn off the vehicle, the video shows Snowden not moving.
After knocking and yelling for several minutes, Snowden finally listened to the officers and turned off the car and got out. But watch the video, he seemed to have no idea what was going on.
He seemed to slur his words…and at times appeared to fall in and out of sleep on the hood of the squad car.
“We’re going to have to put him in the car,” one of the officers said, “because he’s too drunk to even stand.”
Emergency responders eventually arrived at the scene, and Snowden, who was wearing a Santa hat emblazoned with the Raiders team logo, initially told one of them he thought he was in Florida.
“Try again,” said the doctor.
Snowden was eventually taken to hospital, although just before he was taken away, a police officer was heard on CCTV saying: “Yeah, he smells like alcohol.”
Court records show Snowden pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of DUI in connection with the incident … and he’s due to appear before a judge in April.
The 26-year-old, who has started nine games for Vegas this season, has yet to comment publicly on the matter.
