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Newly crowned junior welterweight world titleholder Maurice Hooker was arrested for drunken driving early Tuesday in his hometown of Dallas.
Hooker, 28, was pulled over by police for speeding at 1:50 a.m. CT, and while he was being followed by a Dallas police car, he crashed into a squad car ahead of him that was being used to redirect traffic in a construction area, according to the police report, as reported by the Dallas Morning News. The police car following Hooker collided with another unoccupied police car at the construction site and two officers were hospitalized, one with a broken arm.
Hooker, whose brother was a passenger, refused a blood alcohol level test, triggering a misdemeanor driving-while-intoxicated charge. Hooker was also charged with misdemeanor unlawful possession of a handgun. He posted bond on both charges.
"We're checking the facts, but Maurice has his attorney in Dallas trying to sort through the police paperwork to see exactly what happened," Dino Duva of Roc Nation Sports, which promotes Hooker, told ESPN on Thursday. "I don't want to say too much but Maurice disputes whether he was even intoxicated. They are still doing an investigation and he did a blood test."
As for the gun charge, Duva said Hooker has a license to carry the legal weapon but that once he refused the blood alcohol test and was charged it "nullifies the gun license until you are convicted or not."
Hooker, 28, was pulled over by police for speeding at 1:50 a.m. CT, and while he was being followed by a Dallas police car, he crashed into a squad car ahead of him that was being used to redirect traffic in a construction area, according to the police report, as reported by the Dallas Morning News. The police car following Hooker collided with another unoccupied police car at the construction site and two officers were hospitalized, one with a broken arm.
Hooker, whose brother was a passenger, refused a blood alcohol level test, triggering a misdemeanor driving-while-intoxicated charge. Hooker was also charged with misdemeanor unlawful possession of a handgun. He posted bond on both charges.
"We're checking the facts, but Maurice has his attorney in Dallas trying to sort through the police paperwork to see exactly what happened," Dino Duva of Roc Nation Sports, which promotes Hooker, told ESPN on Thursday. "I don't want to say too much but Maurice disputes whether he was even intoxicated. They are still doing an investigation and he did a blood test."
As for the gun charge, Duva said Hooker has a license to carry the legal weapon but that once he refused the blood alcohol test and was charged it "nullifies the gun license until you are convicted or not."