Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ex-wrestler Matt Hardy charged with Driving While Intoxicated at KRDU airport, his second arrest since August. Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Carolina.

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TMZ.com has published the police report (.PDF) from Matt Hardy’s arrest and the details are disturbing to say the least.

Matt Hardy was at the airport on Monday afternoon when police received several phone calls from concerned drivers who said Matt’s car “almost hit two drivers three separate times.” When an airport police officer spotted Hardy, the wrestler’s car, “swerved into the curb and then back onto the road.”

Once Hardy was pulled over, the officer claims Hardy was asked to step out of the vehicle. Matt proceeded to open his door and get out of the car – without putting the car in park. The police report reads, “The vehicle rolled forward and I yelled for him to put the vehicle in park.”

Matt Hardy was observed to have “slow and slurred speech, sleepy eyes and a very lackadaisical demeanor.”

Former professional wrestler Matt Hardy of Moore County was charged with driving while impaired this week, his second arrest in less than a month.

Police at Raleigh-Durham International Airport arrested Hardy on Monday afternoon. A driver called airport police shortly before 2 p.m. to report that a 2011 red Chevrolet Camaro was swerving across traffic and had nearly hit two different cars three times, according to a police report.

When officers stopped the Camaro, they found 36-year-old Matthew Moore Hardy of the 300 block of Boys Camp Road in Cameron behind the wheel, the report said.

According to a police report, Hardy's speech was slurred and he appeared to be trying to "speak normally." When officers asked him to step out of the car, Hardy first tried to get out without putting the vehicle in park, the report said.

The former World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action wrestler said he was at the airport to pick up his girlfriend, 24-year-old Florida model Rebecca Victoria Reyes.

Police said a breathalyzer test was negative for the presence of alcohol. However, Hardy failed a field sobriety test by being unable to walk more than a few steps on a straight line, toe-to-toe, without stumbling.

A North Carolina Highway Patrol drug recognition officer examined Hardy and determined that he was under the influence of drugs, the police report said.

Hardy was charged with driving while impaired, and blood was drawn for lab analysis. Police took him to the Wake County Detention Center, where he was immediately released on his own recognizance.

He is scheduled to appear in District Court in Raleigh on Nov. 30.

State troopers charged Hardy on Aug. 20 with driving while impaired after he crashed his 2009 Chevrolet Corvette about a half-mile south of Vass in Moore County. The trooper reported that Hardy's breathalyzer test didn't detect alcohol, but Hardy appeared to be under the influence of a substance. He is scheduled to appear in court on that charge Sept. 28.

The day before his first arrest, Hardy was involved in a crash with his 2006 Cadillac on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines.

An officer found that he had run the car off the road and crashed into a guard rail near South Bennett Street.

Hardy told the officer that a car ran him off the road, causing him to crash, according to the accident report.

After the arrest in August, TNA Wrestling fired Hardy, who was already on probation.

Hardy is a former member of the famous Hardy Boyz wrestling team with his younger brother Jeff Hardy.

Jeff Hardy pleaded guilty last week to three felony drug charges and was sentenced to serve 10 days in jail and pay a $100,000, followed by 30 months on probation.

http://www.fayobserver.com

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