NEWPORT, Ky. -- An assistant basketball coach at the University of Cincinnati is facing drunken driving charges again, News 5 reported.
John Keith Legree was arrested in Northern Kentucky early Saturday morning.
A news release from the university's athletics department said Legree resigned his coaching position on Monday.
Officers said Legree was found sleeping behind the steering wheel at a red light, with his foot on the brake and his vehicle in drive.
When police woke him up, he allegedly started driving away, and officers said they then stopped him a few blocks away
Police said Legree smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes.
He had a plastic container of liquor in the center console and also had open container of Hennessy cognac in his vehicle, according to police.
Legree's blood-alcohol level was 0.143 percent, according to the arrest report.
He was also accused of drunken driving in Cincinnati last March on Central Parkway, but Legree was later acquitted by a jury and reinstated at UC.
In May, UC athletic director Bob Goin instituted a zero-tolerance policy that brings immediate termination to employees who engage in conduct detrimental to the athletic department and university, the news release said.
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