according to : DALLAS (AP) - Country singer Randy Travis was
lying in the middle of the road with no car in sight when another
driver spotted him and called 911, according to a recording released
Thursday.
"I just found a guy laying
in the road," the caller said in a recording released by the Grayson
County Sheriff's Office. He added later, "I want to say he had no shirt
on, but I don't know."
Officials said Travis was
naked and threatened to kill state troopers when he was arrested late
Tuesday night. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and
retaliation or obstruction, and released Wednesday on $21,500 bond from
the jail in Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas.
A mug shot showed a
battered-looking Travis in a T-shirt, with a black eye and dried blood
on his face. He later walked barefoot out of the county jail wearing
scrubs and a University of Texas ball cap.
The 911 caller did not
identify Travis by name and said he at first thought the body belonged
to a deer. "I'm spooked out," he said. "I don't see a vehicle, there's a
couple of cones scattered."
A representative for Travis said there would be no comment Thursday.
It was the second Texas
arrest involving alcohol this year for the Grammy-winning singer, who
was cited in February for public intoxication.
The sheriff's office in
Grayson County, located in far North Texas along the border with
Oklahoma, received the 911 call at 11:18 p.m. Tuesday from west of
Tioga, where the entertainer lives.
Texas troopers responding
to the scene said a Pontiac Trans Am registered to the 53-year-old
Travis had been driven off the road and struck several barricades in a
construction road.
Travis was not wearing
clothes and made threats against the Texas troopers, said Tom Vinger, a
Department of Public Safety spokesman. He said the singer refused
sobriety tests, so a blood specimen was taken.
"Travis had a strong odor
of alcoholic beverage on his breath and several signs of intoxication,"
according to a statement from the sheriff's office. "While Travis was
being transported, Travis made threats to shoot and kill the troopers
working the case."
Asked how Travis suffered
his facial injuries, Vinger told the AP "I know the vehicle suffered
significant damage to the front end during the wreck."
District Attorney Joe Brown
said the felony retaliation or obstruction charge could be referred to a
grand jury within a month or six weeks, while the DWI case could be
filed as soon as prosecutors decide whether to proceed. The felony count
carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to
$10,000.
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