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04/02 11:09 CDT Bodycam shows a stunned Tiger Woods handcuffed after a Florida
rollover crash
Bodycam shows a stunned Tiger Woods handcuffed after a Florida rollover crash
By R.J. RICO
Associated Press
Tiger Woods expressed astonishment as he was handcuffed after crashing his
vehicle last week in Florida, according to body camera footage released
Thursday.
"I do believe your normal faculties are impaired, and you're under an unknown
substance, so at this time you're under arrest for DUI," Martin County
Sheriff's deputy Tatiana Levenar told Woods after conducting a sobriety test on
the golfer.
Woods said he was looking at his phone and changing the radio station when his
speeding Land Rover clipped the back of a truck and rolled onto its side on a
residential road on Jupiter Island.
"I'm being arrested?" Woods responded as he stood alongside the road.
"Yes sir," Levenar said.
The video also shows that officers found pills in Tiger Woods' pocket after the
crash.
"That's a Norco," Woods said after an officer pulled out two white pills,
referring to a painkiller that contains acetaminophen and hydrocodone.
Authorities would later confirm they found that Woods was in possession of
hydrocodone.
In the bodycam footage, Woods told Levenar that he had not drunk any alcohol
and that he had taken "a few" medications earlier in the day, though Woods'
words are muted in the released video as he describes some of the drugs.
Woods entered a not guilty plea on Tuesday to suspicion of driving under the
influence. He posted a statement Tuesday night saying that he was stepping away
indefinitely "to seek treatment and focus on my health."
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