Longtime St. Louis Cardinals TV announcer Dan McLaughlin was arrested in a St. Louis suburb on Sunday and later charged with a continuous DUI offense.
Police in Cleve Cool, Missouri, said they received two calls Sunday night from a suspicious vehicle believed to be driven by a driver with a disability. Officers found and tracked down McLaughlin’s car on I-270, pulling him over after he failed to maintain a single lane of travel. police report.
Officers found “several clues that the driver was disabled,” according to the report, and arrested McLaughlin on charges of driving under the influence after a field sobriety test. St. Louis Post-Shipment Report The DWI arrest is at least the third for McLaughlin.
St. Louis County prosecutors charged McLaughlin with sustained DUI on Monday. This is a class E felony and carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
McLaughlin addressed his arrest in a statement to the Post-Dispatch.
“I have no excuses,” McLaughlin wrote in a text message. Privacy please, thank you.
McLaughlin, 48, is the Cardinals’ TV voice and has worked in the Cardinals’ TV booth for 25 years. according to his careerThe Post-Dispatch reports that he was pulled over for the second time in 13 months while driving under the influence of alcohol in 2011 in Chesterfield, Missouri. According to reports, he avoided his jail time and received his two-year probation upon his first arrest.
His then-employer Fox Sports Midwest suspended him after his second arrest, later reinstated himThe Cardinals and TV partner Barry Sports had no mention of his arrest as of Monday night.