Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs was transferred earlier this period to a minimum-custody transitional lodging installation successful Reno, a authorities corrections authoritative said.
Ruggs, 27, was approved arsenic a “community trusty” successful July and was transferred to Northern Nevada Transitional Housing connected Sept. 4, Nevada Department of Corrections spokesperson Teri Vance said successful a Friday email.
Ruggs was sentenced to 3 to 10 years successful situation successful 2023 aft pleading blameworthy to DUI resulting successful decease and vehicular manslaughter successful the 2021 clang that killed Las Vegas nonmigratory Tina Tintor, 23, and her aureate retriever.
A trusty is simply a minimum-custody offender who is allowed to enactment extracurricular of a closed institution, Vance said. She said the transitional lodging halfway is intended to location eligible nonviolent offenders who were not convicted of enactment offenses and who are wrong 18 months of their parole eligibility dates.
“The main intent is to let trusties the accidental to question enactment and unafraid imperishable lodging anterior to reintegrating into society,” Vance said.
Vance did not accidental wherever Ruggs was working. Ruggs’ lawyer David Chesnoff said helium was unavailable to supply comment.
In June, the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners denied Ruggs’ bid for parole. Commissioner Sandy Schmitt said antecedently that Ruggs was eligible for parole opening connected Aug. 5 and had a mandatory parole day of Aug. 24, 2027. She added guidelines recommended that Ruggs beryllium paroled astatine his archetypal oregon 2nd hearing.
At the clip of the 2021 crash, Ruggs was speeding down Rainbow Boulevard successful a Corvette Stingray erstwhile helium struck the rear of Tintor’s SUV, according to authorities.
Ruggs was driving 156 mph seconds earlier the crash, and authorities said his humor intoxicant contented was 0.16 percent, doubly the ineligible limit.
Ruggs, a erstwhile first-round NFL draught prime for the Raiders and a University of Alabama standout, was previously incarcerated astatine the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported astatine the clip of the parole board’s June 11 decision.
The Review-Journal antecedently reported Ruggs was serving his condemnation successful Casa Grande Transitional Housing, a dormitory-style installation successful Las Vegas for nonviolent offenders, aft being moved determination successful 2024.
Ruggs was initially booked into High Desert State Prison adjacent Indian Springs earlier helium was transferred to Stewart Conservation Camp successful Carson City 1 period into his sentence. While astatine the camp, Ruggs was successful a enactment programme that placed him astatine the Governor’s Mansion.
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