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Diamars 23 November 2021

Ex-Raider Ruggs remains on house arrest in fatal crash case

(AP) — Former Raid- with Ruggs when he missed fighting separately to block
ers wide receiver Henry the call Nov. 13, and didn’t prosecutors from accessing
Ruggs III received a stern hear a signal from the moni- Ruggs’ medical records, and
talking-to from a Las Ve- tor. an attorney for Kilgo-Wash-
gas judge but was allowed ington has launched a similar
to remain on house arrest Las Vegas police still have effort on her behalf. A Dec. 8
with a continuous alcohol Ruggs’ cellphone, Chesnoff hearing is scheduled on that
monitor on one ankle and said, and he has now pro- question.
a GPS monitor on the oth- vided a new phone number
er following a fatal crash to the monitoring system, Prosecutors say Ruggs’
he’s accused of causing by SCRAM of Nevada. blood-alcohol level was
driving drunk. 0.16% — twice the legal limit
The hand-held device emit- for drivers in Nevada — and
Justice of the Peace Suzan ted a signal while Ruggs stood his vehicle hit speeds of 156
Baucum told Ruggs and his before the judge, requiring mph (251 kph) before the
lawyers she was “comfortable Ruggs to submit a breath test crash.
with a higher level of moni- after his court hearing.
toring” after a hearing about Ruggs is due for a Dec. 16 ev-
a delay in Ruggs providing a Police and prosecutors say idence hearing on two felony
remote breath-alcohol test Ruggs, 22, and his girlfriend, driving under the influence
with a hand-held device on Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washing- charges that each carry man-
Nov. 13. ton, were injured in the pre- datory prison time of two to
dawn Nov. 2 crash, when 20 years if he’s convicted,
“But if there are any misses, Ruggs’ Chevrolet Corvette plus felony reckless driving
if there are any problems, if slammed into the rear of a and a misdemeanor weapon
there is any alcohol detected Toyota Rav4 that caught fire. charge. Police say they found
in your system, you need to a loaded handgun in his
know that’s going to be prob- a three-hour requirement by Since his Nov. 3 release from Tina Tintor, 23, died in the wrecked sports car.
lematic for this court going submitting the negative test. jail on $150,000 bail, Ruggs Toyota.
forward,” she said. “Henry still did the right has passed more than 77 The Raiders released Ruggs
thing by testing within the breath-alcohol tests, his law- Chesnoff didn’t specify just hours after the crash.
Attorneys David Chesnoff window,” Chesnoff said, yer told the judge. Ruggs’ injuries, but told the
and Richard Schonfeld said standing with Ruggs before judge that a leg cast that ini- The team made Ruggs their
their client took a test any- the judge. “He should not be Ruggs’ lawyers also submit- tially prevented the use of first pick in the 2020 NFL
way “out of an abundance of punished because his case at- ted testimonials from two the ankle monitor has been draft, from Alabama, and he
caution” on Nov. 13 and met tracts so much attention.” people who said they were removed. had been an emerging star for
Chesnoff and Schonfeld are the Raiders this season.

FIFA publishes shortlists for

annual best player awards

(AP) — Chelsea won the the top 10.
Champions League and No player was nominated
England reached the Eu- from the United States team
ropean Championship which took bronze at the To-
final, but no Englishmen kyo Olympics.
are on the nomination lists
for FIFA’s annual awards A men’s list dominated by
published on Monday. forwards was completed
by Mohamed Salah, Kyl-
Jorginho, a double Europe- ian Mbappé, Erling Haaland,
an champion with Chelsea Kevin De Bruyne, Karim
and Italy, was joined by club Benzema and Neymar in
teammate N’Golo Kanté the nominations by a FIFA-
among 11 candidates to be appointed panel.
voted FIFA’s best player in
the 2020-21 season. There are no defenders or
goalkeepers in contention for
Lionel Messi and Cristiano the main FIFA award, though
Ronaldo took their usual goalkeepers have their own
places on the list with last separate award.
year’s winner, Robert Le-
wandowski. Italy’s Gianluigi Donnarum-
ma, who was named player of
The winner of the women’s the tournament at Euro 2020,
award last year, England de- is among the five goalkeeping
fender Lucy Bronze, is nom- candidates.
inated again and the 13 can-
didates include her national Robert Mancini, who led
and Manchester City team- Italy to the European title,
mate Ellen White. is among seven candidates
Olympic gold medal-win- for the men’s coaching
ning Canada has just one award that include Chelsea’s
candidate, veteran forward Thomas Tuchel and Lionel
Christine Sinclair, 19 years Scaloni, whose Argentina
after she was first voted into team won the Copa America.