(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former Fox News personality Ed Henry was arrested in Florida for allegedly driving under the influence, Radar Online reported.
Henry, who worked as Fox News’s chief White House correspondent, was pulled over on June 20 while driving a black Cadillac Escalade with a flat tire and a car rim dragging along the ground.
According to the police report, Henry’s driving almost caused at least one accident as he recklessly swerved through the streets.
“In doing this the front driver’s [side] tire came off the rim and rolled into the east bound lanes almost striking an oncoming vehicle,” the report stated. “That vehicle had to apply [its] brakes and swerve to avoid being hit by the tire.”
Authorities pulled him over in the parking lot of a Cadillac dealership, where Henry said he had been driving to get his tire repaired.
The deputy who pulled him over noted that Henry’s drunkenness was obvious.
“While Henry was talking, I was able to smell the odor of unknown alcohol coming from his breath,” the deputy noted, adding that his visual appearance was particularly telling. “Henry had glassy and bloodshot eyes…His gait was unsteady. His speech was slightly slurred.”
Nonetheless, Henry was reportedly “cooperative and polite” in his dealings with the officer. He admitted to having downed two bourbons roughly an hour before at at nearby Singer Island.
Despite appearing to fail several field sobriety tests, Henry blew below the legal limit of 0.08 in the blood–alcohol breath test, according to his lawyer, David Tarras.
“Mr. Henry cooperated with law enforcement during their investigation,” Tarras wrote. “He respectfully provided a sample of his breath that was below a .08, and thus below the legal limit in Florida.”
Tarras expressed confidence that Henry would be the charges in court.
Henry was fired in 2020 following serious rape and sexual misconduct allegations involving a Fox News coworker, Jennifer Eckhart.
Among the Eckhard made was that he violently raped her in 2018 and then sought to use “revenge porn” to intimidate her into silence.
The case remained pending as of December 2022, with Eckhart having amended her complaint after New York used the Adult Survivors Act to expand the legal options of many purported victims of sex crimes.
