Miguel Cabrera, pro baseball player, smiles for the camera at St. Lucie County in Florida after being arrested for DUI last night. Here's what went down:
According to a police report, St. Lucie County sheriffs investigators saw Cabrera's car on the side of the road with smoke coming from the engine compartment.
The deputy who initiated contact with Cabrera said he "detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath when he spoke, his eyes were bloodshot and watery and his speech was accented and heavily slurred."
Asked by the officer who was with him, Cabrera said, "I am going to (expletive) kill him." Police found no one else in the black 2005 Land Rover Cabrera was driving.
The deputy also said he observed Cabrera take a drink out of a bottle of James Buchanan Scotch.
After the deputy asked for Cabrera's identification and received a passport, Cabrera got out of the car and started walking toward the road while putting his hands up. The deputy asked Cabrera multiple times to get off the road and put his hands behind his back.
Another deputy responded to the scene and tried to help get Cabrera in the vehicle.
"Do you know who I am? You don't know anything about my problems," Cabrera said several times, according to the report.
Cabrera was handcuffed because he did not comply. When the second deputy told him to get in the car, Cabrera uttered an expletive and pushed off the car into him. At that point the deputy "delivered 3-4 knee spikes into his left thigh muscle and the defendant fell onto the vehicle."
Knee spikes hurt.
