Judge orders Henry Ruggs back to court after missed alcohol test

LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas justice ordered erstwhile Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III to look earlier her connected Monday aft learning helium missed a required intoxicant trial portion connected location apprehension pursuing a fatal clang he’s accused of causing by driving drunk astatine speeds up to 156 mph.

Ruggs’ lawyers told Justice of the Peace Suzan Baucum that Ruggs “self-tested” antagonistic soon aft missing 1 of his calls for a enactment trial past weekend.

Ruggs’ attorney, David Chesnoff, blamed the hold connected occupation with investigating equipment.

A enactment posted aboriginal successful the tribunal grounds shows Ruggs, 22, missed a trial astatine 4:41 p.m. Saturday and that helium completed “a lawsuit initiated distant enactment test” astatine 6:28 p.m.

The intoxicant monitoring bureau noted that it “cannot corroborate Mr. Rugg’s sobriety during this point-in-time,” and said Ruggs’ lawyer provided an updated telephone fig for substance notifications for Ruggs’ distant enactment test.

Ruggs was not successful tribunal Wednesday for a little proceeding during which Baucum declined his lawyers’ petition for a tribunal bid to get occurrence section records astir the Nov. 2 clang and fire. She said she’d reconsider if they can’t get the records themselves.

Ruggs could look a instrumentality to jail. A justice who acceptable his bail astatine $150,000 warned Ruggs straight that if helium didn’t comply with merchandise restrictions helium would look re-arrest.

Ruggs is nether location confinement with physics monitoring and four-times-a-day intoxicant checks. He is required to respond to a telephone oregon substance awesome by blowing into a instrumentality that checks his blood-alcohol level. Records amusement helium owns a $1.1 cardinal location not acold from wherever the clang occurred.

Prosecutors person said Ruggs’ blood-alcohol level aft the clang was 0.16%, doubly the ineligible bounds for drivers successful Nevada.

Authorities said helium and his girlfriend, Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washington, were injured erstwhile Ruggs’ Chevrolet Corvette slammed into the rear of Tina Tintor’s Toyota Rav4, rupturing that vehicle’s substance tank.

His lawyers person said successful tribunal filings that a witnesser told them firefighters were dilatory to extinguish flames They person not identified the witness.

Other witnesses told constabulary they heard screams and tried to rescue Tintor, 23, and her canine but were turned backmost by heat, flames and smoke.

A Clark County spokesperson has said determination were nary delays successful the firefighting effect oregon the onslaught connected the fire.

Baucum has acceptable a Dec. 16 preliminary proceeding of grounds connected 2 felony charges of driving nether the power causing decease oregon superior injury. Each complaint carries 2 years of mandatory situation clip for a conviction, and arsenic overmuch arsenic 20 years each.

Ruggs besides faces 2 felony reckless driving counts and a misdemeanor limb complaint aft constabulary said a loaded handgun was recovered successful his wrecked sports car.

Ruggs suffered a limb injury, and Washington underwent country for an limb injury, prosecutors said.

Chesnoff and lawyer Richard Schonfeld are warring separately to artifact prosecutors from accessing Ruggs’ aesculapian records, and an lawyer for Washington has launched a akin effort connected her behalf. A Dec. 8 proceeding is scheduled.

The Raiders made Ruggs their archetypal prime successful the 2020 NFL draught from Alabama, wherever helium helped the Crimson Tide triumph the 2017 NCAA championship. He had been an emerging prima for the Raiders this season, but the squad released him aft his apprehension successful the crash.