“An officer detected an odour of alcoholic beverage coming from the person, and he noticed an open bottle of wine in the passenger side of the vehicle,” said Sanger police chief Curtis Amyx. “His speech was slurred and the officer had a hard time understanding what he was trying to stay.”
Amyx said Travis was charged with public intoxication and was released after a couple of hours in the local jail.
He said Travis was parked when the officer spotted him, and he is not charged with drunken driving. Sanger is about an hour north of Dallas.
Travis, 52, is a six-time Grammy Award winner, and is one of the leading stars of country music. He has also been focusing on gospel music, and has won several Dove Awards. As an actor, Travis has appeared in a number of movies, and played a recurring character in the 1990s TV show “Touched by an Angel”.
Travis is a native of North Carolina, but he owns a ranch in Grayson County in Texas, which is west of Sanger. Amyx said he did not know why Travis — who he described as cooperative — was in Sanger.
Public intoxication is a misdemeanour punishable by a fine of up to US$500 (RM1,500). — Reuters
