MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien has been charged with boating while intoxicated three weeks after his arrest in Minnesota.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s office released the criminal complaint on Tuesday.
According to the complaint, a water patrol officer on Lake Minnetonka stopped Byfuglien’s boat because the navigational lights weren’t on. According to the officer, Byfuglien’s speech was slurred, his eyes were bloodshot and watery, he was unsteady on his feet and he smelled of alcohol. There were three people in the boat with him and Byfuglien refused to take a blood or urine test.
Byfuglien, a Minnesota native, was on the Chicago Blackhawks team that won the Stanley Cup in 2010 and was then traded to the Atlanta Thrashers in a salary dump. The franchise was relocated to Winnipeg in the offseason.
Messages left for Byfuglien’s attorney were not immediately returned Tuesday.
