Prosecutors to subpoena Tiger Woods' prescription drug records after DUI arrest

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Prosecutors are seeking Tiger Woods' medicine cause records from a pharmacy, a week aft his vehicle crashed successful Florida and helium was arrested connected suspicion of driving nether the influence.

Florida authorities attorneys for the 19th Judicial Circuit connected Tuesday said they planned to contented a subpoena seeking copies of each medicine medicine records for the legendary golfer connected record astatine Lewis Pharmacy successful Palm Beach, Florida, from the commencement of the twelvemonth done the extremity of past month.

Prosecutors successful Martin County, Florida, privation the times the prescriptions were filled, the fig of pills, the dosage amounts and immoderate instructions that accompanied the pills, specified arsenic warnings astir driving portion taking them, according to documents successful an online tribunal docket.

Any objections to the subpoena indispensable beryllium filed with the State Attorney's Office wrong 10 days. Neither Lewis Pharmacy nor Woods' attorney, Doug Duncan, instantly responded to emails seeking comment.

Woods, 50, pleaded not guilty to charges including driving nether the power past week. His not blameworthy plea came hours aft an apprehension study was filed that noted Woods' eyes were bloodshot and his pupils were "extremely dilated." It besides noted that 2 pills, aboriginal determined to beryllium the painkiller hydrocodone, were recovered successful the pouch of Woods' pants.

The golfer told officers astatine the country of the mishap that helium was looking down astatine his cellphone and changing the vigor presumption erstwhile a pickup motortruck that was towing a trailer successful beforehand of him began slowing down to crook into a driveway, truthful helium did not announcement it, according to the report.

The apprehension study besides noted Woods swerved into the mediate of the road.

Woods took a Breathalyzer trial and "blew triple zeroes" but refused a urine test, authorities said.

The 15-time large champion said past week that he's "stepping distant for a play of clip to question attraction and absorption connected my health."

Woods was antecedently arrested connected a DUI complaint successful 2017 when Florida constabulary recovered him dormant down the instrumentality of his car. He said aboriginal helium had taken a atrocious premix of painkillers.

In 2021, Woods was seriously injured in a rollover crash in Los Angeles aft "driving astatine a velocity unsafe for the roadworthy conditions and the inability to negociate the curve of the roadway," authorities said.

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