The head men’s basketball coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio was arrested in Corpus Christi early Tuesday morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to a police report.<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi police said officers found 45-year-old James Austin Claunch asleep in the driver’s seat of a running Mercedes outside a store around 5:06 a.m.<\/p>\n
According to the report, officers observed signs of intoxication, including slurred speech, the odor of alcohol and difficulty maintaining balance.<\/p>\n
Police said Claunch admitted he had been drinking and told officers he had driven to the store.<\/p>\n
He was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n
The University of Texas at San Antonio announced Wednesday that Claunch has been suspended following the arrest.<\/p>\n
Additional details about the suspension or any disciplinary action have not been released.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information related to the incident is encouraged to contact the Corpus Christi Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head men’s basketball coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio was arrested in Corpus Christi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-481038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}