Eldorado football star off team after DWI charge

From KRQE-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Eldorado High School football player Aaron Herrera was kicked off the team Friday after a car crash where police believe alcohol was a factor. Thursday night Herrera, 16, ran a red light crashing his car into a Jeep driven by another student in front of the school, according to Albuquerque police. Sources told News 13 the student in the Jeep is a member of the EHS basketball team. Police reported Herrera was screaming in the ambulance pulling off straps that were holding him into the gurney. Then at the hospital he pulled off his neck brace and screamed he was afraid he would be kicked off the football team, the investigating officer wrote in the accident report. On Friday football staffers told News 13 Herrera was no longer a member of the team. An Albuquerque Public Schools spokesperson confirmed that. Albuquerque Police Department officers said Herrera told them he had been drinking. He also smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot watery eyes. Read more

Eldorado football star off team after DWI charge