UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson has settled a court case stemming from a May arrest on DUI charges after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.
According to online court records, the DUI charge was dismissed with Ferguson pleading Nolo Contendere to a lesser charge of wet reckless driving upon a highway. As a condition of his plea deal, Ferguson will serve one year of probation.
MMAJunkie initially reported the news.
Nolo contendere means a defendant in a criminal case accepts a conviction but does not admit guilt.
The plea deal concluded the court case surrounding Ferguson after he was arrested and charged with DUI back in May. The veteran UFC fighter was taken into custody after he allegedly crashed into two cars parked outside a nightclub in Hollywood.
Ferguson allegedly flipped his truck during the accident and was arrested after refusing a field sobriety test.
He was released on bail and later pled not guilty to the charges.
With Ferguson accepting the plea deal, the DUI charge has now officially been dismissed and he’ll serve one year of probation on the lesser charge of reckless driving.
Ferguson, 39, returns to action on Dec. 16 when he faces Paddy Pimblett in a featured bout at the UFC 296 pay-per-view card in the former interim UFC lightweight champion’s first fight since a July loss Bobby Green.
Nothing sticks to Harvard grads.
Wet reckless (often called “wet and reckless“) is the crime that California prosecutors reduce a misdemeanor DUI charge down to as part of a plea agreement. Wet reckless is simply a nickname for a reckless driving (Vehicle Code 23103) charge that includes a note on your criminal record that the offense involved alcohol and/or drug use.1
A wet reckless conviction is preferable to a DUI conviction because it carries lesser penalties, including no mandatory driver’s license suspension. However a wet reckless conviction is priorable, which means if you get convicted of a DUI within the next 10 years (California’s DUI “lookback” period), you will be considered a repeat offender and punished more harshly.
dad got a wet and reckless
he had all the dui classes and fines that u would get for a dui
plus lawyer fees
“dismissed” is inaccurate
This will be the first time I’m ever rooting for Paddy the Fattie…
Why was I under the impression that Wet Reckless was a lesser charge for prostitution in Las Vegas?
Thats Reno
I remember Nick Swardson had a bit where someone accused him of being gay because of that character on Reno 911 and he said “hey man, Tobey Maguire? Not really Spider-Man”. That shit cracked me up back in the day.
Not surprised. It was Cali, right?
wet reckless driving
I found that really interesting. Never heard of it before and immediately thought since he practically got off and how his truck had climbed up on other vehicles, it was something minor like driving too fast on a slick road. Peeling out at a red light on a road after a rain drizzle and losing control of the vehicle! 