Cyclone Graduate Assistant Arrested

Fri May 02, 2008 at 07:04:36 PM EDT

Ames Tribune

A member of the Iowa State University football coaching staff was arrested after allegedly breaking into a car impound lot and trying to drive his car out through the steel gate.
     Floyd Howard White, 30, of 3709 Tripp St., was arrested Friday morning and charged with OWI first offense and criminal trespassing causing damage of over $200, both serious misdemeanors.
     According to court documents filed in the case, police first saw White as he was walking along a gravel road near the entrance of Butch's Towing impound lot. The officer stopped to talk with him, and noticed that the entire steel gate blocking the impound entrance was lying on the ground, and heavy damage had been sustained to the steel and wooden support poles.
     When the officer asked White about the gate, he reportedly said it was like that when he got there.
     The officer walked White onto the lot to locate White's car, and when they located it, the officer saw that the front end was badly damaged, "consistent with driving through the gate."
     The officer also reportedly saw paint transfer from the vehicle to the gate.
     White had the keys to the car with him at the time, the police report said. After smelling alcohol on White's breath, the officer put him through a series of sobriety tests, including a preliminary breath test.

I'd be quite surprised if Mr. White is with the team to begin the season....

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  • Eh... (none / 0)

    I'd cut him some slack.  If those bastards impounded my car, I'd try to bust it out too.

    Only, probably not when I was drunk.  That wasn't too smart.

    We'll carry the banner high!

    by TB on Fri May 02, 2008 at 08:35:51 PM EDT

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    seems to me this GA got to the tow place via someone, he did not just fly to the tow place,  where is this ssomeone?????????? Who knows, he could have walked though. No one saw him (the Cyclones GA) drive, the officers reports states he was walking, therefore how could he be charged with driving anything drunkenly??? He had his keys.....but then so would ANYONE whose car was inpounded, or am I wrong? I am not sure what color this mans car is.....but I see very FEW cars that have custom paint jobs. Could someone else have hit this fence? COuld it have been he went to go get his towed car and found the fence down.....could that indeed be true? If someone drove him there.....could they have knocked down the fence/gate and left the GA to face the music on his own???  No one saw anything according to the report, but everyone is doing a whole lot of surmising....why not find out first. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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