Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was arrested early Saturday morning for drunken driving in his home state of Texas.
Austin police spokeswoman Veneza Aguinaga said Benson was driving his BMW at 5th and Colorado Streets between 3 and 4 a.m. when he was pulled over for a running a red light.
After an officer had him perform a series of sobriety tests, Benson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, Aguinaga said. After his arrest, he refused a breathalyzer and blood test.
Benson was taken to the Travis County Jail. He was released around 9 a.m. this morning on bond, jail officials said.
He was in Austin for his mother’s birthday this weekend, his attorney Sam Bassett said.
The arrest comes a month after Benson was arrested on Lake Travis on charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest, both class B misdemeanors. Those cases are still pending.
This is one smart individual. He was already on thin ice from the boating incident and now he gets charged for drunk driving. Couple those two incidents with the way he tiptoes into running lanes and tries to dances around would-be tacklers and the Bears have themselves what many call in the business a full-fledged bust.
