Cowboy Arrested for Fleeing Police

Dallas Cowboy linebacker Darren Hambrick was arrested in Lacoochee, Fla., after he fled from deputies who tried to pull him over for speeding, Pasco County sheriff’s officials said.

Hambrick was charged with fleeing a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence Sunday.

Sheriff’s officials wouldn’t say why Hambrick ran from his pickup truck as he was pulled over, but the arresting deputy reported a “a very strong odor of unburnt marijuana” inside Hambrick’s vehicle.

The deputy said that when he turned on his flashers to pull over the speeding truck, the driver turned onto a muddy side road and drove through a stop sign. At one point, the driver jumped from the moving truck and ran into the woods, leaving the passenger to steerthe vehicle. Police did not identify the passenger.

Deputies found Hambrick’s driver’s license and NFL players card in a billfold stuck behind the truck’s sun visor.

While deputies searched for the driver with a tracking dog, Hambrick drove up in another car wearing clean blue jeans. He told deputies he had been at night club in Lacoochee and had loaned his rental truck to a friend.

But deputies said Hambrick matched the build of the driver who fled and his socks were wet and covered with mud. Sheriff’s officials said Hambrick changed his muddy pants and shoes but forgot to change his socks.