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Article: Lakers Owner Buss Is Arrested
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 30, 2007
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Lakers owner Jerry Buss was arrested early yesterday for
investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.
The 74-year-old Buss was taken into custody shortly before 1 a.m.
after he drove his gold Mercedes-Benz station wagon the wrong way on
a street in an unincorporated section of Carlsbad that has double
yellow lines, California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Kerns said.
"Although I was driving only a short distance, it was a bad
decision and I was wrong to do it," Buss said in a statement issued
by the Lakers. "It was a mistake I will not make again."
A 23-year-old woman in the vehicle with Buss wasn't arrested,
Kerns said.