Kurt Angle arrested

The following is from Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com:

TNA champion Kurt Angle's DUI arrest this past Friday was picked up by other media outlets in the Pittsburgh area and by paparazzi website TMZ.com overnight. It's a pretty major story in Pittsburgh, where Angle is obviously well known for his Olympic and professional wrestling exploits.

According to local media reports, a white Cadillac Escalade nearly struck a woman's car as it drove out of the parking lot for "The Sea Shell" a restaurant in Moon Township, PA around 1 PM. The woman, who was not identified, claimed she needed to stop short in order to prevent her car from being hit by the Escalade, which then crossed the yellow median, allegedly almost hitting a traffic sign as well.

The woman wrote down the license plate of the car and called authorities, who tracked it to Kurt Angle's home. Angle's car and his physical description matched the report phoned into the police.

After Angle was unable to pass several field sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest. Additionally, when authorities arrived at Angle's home to interview him, Chief Leo McCarthy told Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA that Angle, who was described as having "liquor on his breath" had "pills in his mouth when officers were interviewing him. Anti-inflammatory meds."

After being taken into custody, Angle was taken to Sewickley Valley Hospital for blood tests which he refused. That refusal will result in an automatic one year suspension of his driver's license. Angle will be facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance and careless driving.

As you probably could have surmised, Angle's scheduled appearance on the Florida-based "Between the Ropes" radio show last night was canceled. TNA's Ross Forman had promoted the appearance just hours before news of the arrest became public at the end of a media conference call with TNA President Dixie Carter, which leads me to believe TNA may not have been aware of the arrest at that point.

With the timing of their two hour iMPACT! expansion tonight and the biggest PPV of their calendar year, Bound for Glory just a few weeks away, one would assume the company cannot be happy.


Stupid bunghole had pills in his mouth while he was wasted and the cops are trying to talk to him. That guys life is a real mess.

Did you not read the story? Angle almost crashed into that lady's car and she had a right to call the police on him. They couldn't catch him on the road so they had to get him somehow and going to his house was the only way. He was breaking the law by drunk-driving and then he got caught, so if the cops have the info and evidence then there was nothing wrong with arresting him at his house.

Obviously I was joking around in my earlier post by saying James Storm spiked his milk, but Angle is just an idiot for doing this. The man is the face of TNA right now and then he goes and pulls of a stunt like this. What happened to that Intelligence Kurt?

Good.

LOL I love the visual of Kurt all ed up with pills in his mouth trying to talk to the police

It is 100% true. Im from the area as well, and watch KDKA every morning.

Here is the link.
kdka.com/video/?id=32603@kdka.dayport.com

that takes you right to the video.
Kurt not only was drunk driving, but when the police showed up, he had a mouthful of pills.