Kansas City Chiefs Defensive End Sentenced to Jail for DUI
Chiefs defensive end, Jared Allen, will spend 48 hours in jail after a municipal judge revoked an agreement for Allen to participate in a DUI diversion program and found him guilty of DUI. Allen was stopped for DUI in Overland Park Kansas in May 2006. He was granted diversion in July, but was arrested for DUI, again, in September. Because he violated the terms of the program, the judge revoked his diversion agreement. Allen pled to DUI and the judge sentenced him to 48 hours in jail, a $500 fine, and a 90 day suspended sentence.
Allen must still face a judge in February for the September DUI arrest.
Why can't professional athletes at least stay out of trouble during the playing season? Is it too much to ask these pampered over-paid athletes to keep their minds on sports during the season? Don’t they realize that they are in the spotlight and that most violations they commit against the law WILL be uncovered AND plastered all over the news? And the most ironic part of Jared Allen’s DUI arrest is that the Chiefs, his team, are going to the playoffs!