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Former NFL halfback and Grant High School football star Onterrio Smith was booked into the Nevada County Sheriff's Office's jail in Truckee early Thursday morning on a drug charge warrant.
Smith was a passenger in a vehicle on Interstate 80 that was pulled over by police for speeding, according to Capt. Randy Fenn of the Truckee Police Department.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and Smith was arrested on a Sacramento County warrant for drug possession, Fenn said.
Smith was booked in at 12:26 a.m., and was released later in the day after making a $15,000 bail, according to Truckee Police.
Smith, 28, was a nationally-recruited star during his high school days at Grant in Sacramento and played against Nevada Union High School several times.
He signed with the University of Tennessee and transferred to the University of Oregon before joining the Minnesota Vikings.
The scatback played for the Vikings during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In May of 2005 he was suspended for that season after he was caught at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying a kit used to beat drug tests, according to the Associated Press.
Smith's arrest at that time was the subject of many jokes because the kit he was caught with included a false penis and was called the “Original Whizzanator,” according to the Minneapolis-Star Tribune.
In 2006, he was released by the Vikings and signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, but was cut after showing up to training camp 20 pounds overweight and breaking his foot, the Star Tribune reported.
The former player was arrested at 4 a.m. on May 2 in Sacramento on suspicion of driving while under the influence, according to CBS13.com, the Web site of the CBS Broadcasting affiliate in Sacramento.
To contact Senior Staff Writer Dave Moller, e-mail dmoller@theunion.com or call 477-4237.
Smith was a passenger in a vehicle on Interstate 80 that was pulled over by police for speeding, according to Capt. Randy Fenn of the Truckee Police Department.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and Smith was arrested on a Sacramento County warrant for drug possession, Fenn said.
Smith was booked in at 12:26 a.m., and was released later in the day after making a $15,000 bail, according to Truckee Police.
Smith, 28, was a nationally-recruited star during his high school days at Grant in Sacramento and played against Nevada Union High School several times.
He signed with the University of Tennessee and transferred to the University of Oregon before joining the Minnesota Vikings.
The scatback played for the Vikings during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In May of 2005 he was suspended for that season after he was caught at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying a kit used to beat drug tests, according to the Associated Press.
Smith's arrest at that time was the subject of many jokes because the kit he was caught with included a false penis and was called the “Original Whizzanator,” according to the Minneapolis-Star Tribune.
In 2006, he was released by the Vikings and signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, but was cut after showing up to training camp 20 pounds overweight and breaking his foot, the Star Tribune reported.
The former player was arrested at 4 a.m. on May 2 in Sacramento on suspicion of driving while under the influence, according to CBS13.com, the Web site of the CBS Broadcasting affiliate in Sacramento.
To contact Senior Staff Writer Dave Moller, e-mail dmoller@theunion.com or call 477-4237.
