Passenger McNair hit with misdemeanor DUI
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair was arrested early Thursday and charged with being the owner of a vehicle operated by a drunken driver.
The former Tennessee Titans player was a passenger in his silver pickup truck, police said.
He was arrested under a misdemeanor statute that charges the owner if an intoxicated person is allowed to drive a vehicle.
The driver was stopped because the truck was speeding, police said.
McNair was arrested in downtown Nashville in May 2003 and charged with DUI and illegal gun possession.
After a year of legal wrangling, a judge dismissed those charges, ruling that police didn't have sufficient reason to pull over McNair in the first place.