No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler’s arraignment has been postponed nearly two weeks following his arrest on charges alleging he ignored police traffic signals and assaulted a police officer while in Louisville, Kentucky, for the PGA Championship.
The athlete was driving near the Valhalla Golf Club Friday morning when he allegedly drove past a police roadblock and injured an officer with his vehicle, according to the police report.
He was arrested hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship.
Scheffler, 27, was initially scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning on charges of second-degree assault of a police officer — a felony — as well as third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic, according to police. The arraignment has been postponed to June 3 at 9 a.m., online court records show.
The district judge presiding in the case granted on Monday the defense’s motion to continue the arraignment “over the objection of Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, Josh Abner, said in a statement to ABC News. “Our office continues to gather information in the case.”
Scheffler’s attorney, Steve Romines, said in a statement to Louisville ABC affiliate WHAS that they plan to plead not guilty to the charges.
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