A veteran deputy district attorney was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in midtown Sacramento early Saturday morning.
An officer observed a vehicle being driven erratically by Ross Robert Huggins westbound on I Street near 20th Street, according to Sacramento Police Department spokesman Norm Leong.
The officer stopped Huggins at 1:44 a.m. at 19th and J streets, he said.
"The odor of alcoholic beverage was emanating from the vehicle," Leong said. "Field sobriety tests were conducted and Mr. Huggins was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol."
Leong did not report Huggins' blood-alcohol content.
Huggins, 44, was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail at 3:01 a.m. and was released later Saturday, according to jail online records.
Reached by phone Saturday at his home, Huggins said, "I made a mistake and I'll have to accept the consequences. Beyond that, I'd rather not comment because it's a private matter."
Shelly Orio, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office, did not return a call seeking comment.
Huggins did confirm he is assigned to the "state-targeted offenses program," a division that comprises five units – prison crimes, vehicle theft, mental health litigation, public assistance fraud and parental child abduction.
He prosecuted crimes committed against children for a number of years.
He was also the prosecutor of former Kings players Chris Webber and Jason Williams on reckless driving charges in 2000. After a daylong non-jury trial, then-Sacramento Superior Court Judge Morrison C. England Jr., now a federal judge, decided they were not guilty without deliberating.
Huggins, who has been a local prosecutor for more than a decade, graduated from University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1991.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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