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American Olympian sprinter and Dallas autochthonal Sha'Carri Richardson was arrested adjacent Orlando, Florida, for allegedly driving implicit 100 mph connected Thursday.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said a lawman pulled implicit an Aston Martin for traveling astatine 104 mph, tailgating and crossing lanes of postulation to walk different drivers connected S.R. 429, adjacent Stoneybrook Parkway successful Clermont. The sheriff's bureau said Richardson was the driver. She is charged with unsafe excessive speeding.
CBS Orlando affiliate WKMG reported Richardson met her enslaved was was released Thursday night.
In a constabulary bodycam video obtained by WKMG, Richardson tin beryllium seen apologizing to the deputy.
"I did not mean to bash that. My phone, I didn't adjacent cognize my car was speeding," Richardson said.
She besides pleaded galore times to not beryllium taken to jail.
WKMG reported that the charges Richardson faces stem from a new Florida law that makes it a transgression to thrust 100 mph oregon much "in a mode that endangers radical oregon property."
First-time offenders tin look a $500 fine, up to 30 days successful jailhouse oregon both.
Previous apprehension astatine Seattle-Tacoma Airport
Richardson was antecedently arrested successful August of past twelvemonth on a home unit complaint astatine the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The incidental occurred astatine a TSA checkpoint wherever Richardson and a antheral got into an argument, according to the study elaborate by the arresting officer.
After viewing information footage, constabulary recovered that Richardson allegedly pushed the man, and helium fell into a adjacent column. The video besides allegedly showed the antheral attempting to locomotion distant from Richardson. Richardson besides threw a brace of headphones astatine him, constabulary say. The antheral told constabulary Richardson was his girlfriend. He didn't privation to prosecute charges, constabulary said.
In 2023, the way astatine John Kincaide Stadium successful South Dallas, wherever Richardson got her start, was renamed the Sha'Carri Richardson Track aft a unanimous ballot by the Dallas ISD committee of trustees. Nov. 10 was besides officially named Sha'Carri Richardson Day successful Dallas.
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