FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard was arrested and accused of drunk driving early yesterday in Nebraska while on probation for assaulting a police officer, the second Pats player to get in serious legal trouble this summer.
Dennard’s arrest in Lincoln, where he was a college star for the Cornhuskers, came 15 days after Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder and three days after Patriots owner Robert Kraft said the club will “be looking at our procedures and auditing how we do things” with regard to character reviews.
“The New England Patriots are extremely disappointed to learn of Alfonzo Dennard’s arrest. We take this matter very seriously and are working to get more information on the incident,” the team said in a statement.
Dennard’s arrest is his second in 15 months. He hasn’t served a 30-day jail sentence for the assault outside a Lincoln bar on Apr. 21, 2012. That is scheduled to begin next March. He also was sentenced to two years’ probation.