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Police charge Travis after crash, naked threats
Randy Travis (CP)
DALLAS -- Randy Travis was charged with driving while intoxicated after the country singer crashed his car and was found naked and combative at the scene, officials said.
It was the second arrest this year for Travis, who was cited in February for public intoxication.
A Pontiac Trans Am registered to Travis, 53, had driven off a road around midnight Tuesday, said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Travis refused sobriety tests, Vinger said, so a blood specimen was taken. The test results are pending.
Travis was released on $21,500 bond Wednesday morning pending an appearance before a judge in Sherman, about 100 kilometres north of Dallas.
Vinger said Travis made threats against Texas Highway Patrol troopers and was not wearing clothes at the time of his arrest. Grayson County Sheriff's Sgt. Rickey Wheeler said Travis also faces a charge of retaliation or obstruction.
A Travis representative said there would be no immediate comment on the arrest.
In February Travis was charged with public intoxication after being spotted in a vehicle parked in front of a church in Sanger, about 20 miles from Tioga, where the entertainer lives.
He also has been involved in messy court proceedings with his ex-wife. Travis was divorced from Elizabeth Travis in 2010 after 19 years of marriage.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 9, 2012 D2
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