NASCAR CEO blows through stop sign, arrested for DWI and oxycodone
NASCAR CEO Brian France talks to the media during a news conference at the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto racing Media Tour in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014.
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SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — NASCAR CEO and chairman Brian France has been arrested in New York’s Hamptons for driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of oxycodone. France was arrested at 7:30 p.m. Sunday and held overnight. He was arraigned Monday at Sag Harbor Village Justice Court and released.
CBSSports.com reports that t he Sag Harbor Police Department issued a release that said France was arrested at 7:30 p.m. local time, not long after Chase Elliott secured his first career win in the NASCAR Cup Series at Watkins Glen.
There was no immediate information on an attorney who could comment on France’s behalf.
NASCAR says it takes France’s arrest “as a serious matter and will issue a statement after we have all of the facts.”
Police say the 56-year-old France was stopped after his 2017 Lexus blew through at a stop sign.
They say officers saw indications France was intoxicated and found the pills during a subsequent search.
TMZ first reported the arrest.
France has been CEO of the family-founded racing organization since 2003.
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