Danny Ray Smith, 66, was charged with driving under the influence and was being held at the Tuscaloosa County Jail Wednesday, according to jail records.
Northport City Administrator Scott Collins said that Smith was arrested around 12:30 p.m. while driving on McFarland Boulevard near 32nd Avenue. He was driving a 2012 Jeep Wrangler registered in Florida, where he has been given permission to travel for business while out on bond for charges of murder, manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, first-degree assault and leaving the scene of an accident with injuries.
Smith was charged with murder in April 2012, after police said he struck 8-year-old Haylee Burks while driving drunk after the Tuscaloosa Regional Air Show. Burks, from Chilton County, was walking on the shoulder of Fifth Street with her family after the Blue Angels performance.
According to investigators, Smith was driving a 2008 GMC Sierra pickup and struck Haylee, her 3-year-old sister and their 28-year-old mother. Her mother suffered multiple fractured vertebrae and her sister lost a tooth.
Smith had been hosting a private party at Dixie Air Services, a fixed-base operator he owns at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport, police said at the time. Court records indicate that his blood alcohol level was .13 percent. The ticket issued Wednesday did not note whether a test was conducted. Smith was also ticketed for failure or refusal to show the officer proof of insurance.
Smith also owns Danny Smith Realty and Construction.
In December, Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Brad Almond referred the criminal cases and a civil case filed by Haylee's mother to mediation and appointed retired Alabama Supreme Court Justice Bernard Harwood as the mediator.
Court records indicate that Smith pleaded guilty to a DUI in Tuscaloosa in 1981.
Tuscaloosa County Deputy District Attorney Scott Holmes filed a motion to revoke his bond on the outstanding criminal charges on Wednesday afternoon. Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge Chuck Malone signed the order, which was filed just before 5 p.m.
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66-year-old Danny Ray
Smith was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Northport and charged with
driving under the influence. It's the third time he's been charged with
that in Tuscaloosa County, and the last time it happened, he killed an
8-year-old girl that he hit with a truck while driving drunk in April
2012.
(Tuscaloosa County Jail)
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