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Texas A&M sack leader arrested on reckless driving charge, per report
By Sydney Hunte
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Texas A&M received some bad off-the-field news on Monday.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Shemar Turner, who leads the Aggies in sacks through 2 games, was arrested on a reckless driving charge.
Turner was reportedly driving his vehicle well over the speed limit, per Brent Zwerneman, “averag[ing] 85 miles per hour in marked zones of 35 to 45 miles per hour” near the Texas A&M campus.
“The incident occurred Aug. 12, but the officer who first witnessed Turner’s reckless driving was ‘unable to safely overtake the vehicle’ because of Turner’s high rate of speed headed south on Wellborn Road, according to the report, hence his arrest nearly a month later,” Zwerneman reported.
Turner’s bail was set at $3,000 on Monday, which he later posted before being released from jail.
As a freshman, Turner recorded 1.5 sacks and 2.0 tackles for a loss, with 4.5 TFLs and half a sack in 2022. He has a pair of sacks thus far in 2023.
Texas A&M faces Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
