Olympian Michael Phelps Arrested on DUI

What? Olympian Michael Phelps Arrested on DUI in Maryland after police stopped him for excessive speed and crossing double lane lines within the Fort McHenry Tunnel on I-95 in Baltimore.

CelebNMusic247.com has learned that the most decorated Olympian of all time, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has been arrested early Tuesday. Phelps was pulled over in Maryland and charged with DUI, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.

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Phelps, known as the “Baltimore Bullet” and winner of 18 Olympic gold medals, was arrested at about 1:40 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence, excessive speed and crossing double lane lines within the Fort McHenry Tunnel on I-95 in Baltimore, the authority said in a statement. He was later released.

A Maryland Transportation Authority police officer was operating a stationary radar on southbound I-395 leaving Baltimore when a white 2014 Land Rover passed traveling at 84 mph in a 45-mph zone.

The officer followed the vehicle onto northbound I-95, through the tunnel and stopped the Land Rover just beyond the tunnel’s toll plaza.

This is NOT the first DUI charge for Phelps, he was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland back in 04. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months probation and issued an apology after that incident. Then in 2009, Phelps was put on BLAST after photos surfaced of him allegedly smoking pot from a bong at a party.

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