DUI

LAMAR Odom has allegedly been arrested for driving under the influence in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The former basketball player, 46, who was previously married to Khloe Kardashian, has battled drug and alcohol addition in the past.

According to TMZ, who reported the arrest, Lamar was also given two traffic violations during the arrest.

The celebrity news site claims that he was slapped with the violations for driving more than 41+ miles per hour over the limit and improper lane change/failure to maintain lane.

TMZ also claimed that Lamar remains in police custody currently.

The Sun has reached out to Lamar’s rep for comment.

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Lamar has made no secret of his struggles with alcohol and drugs in the past, and in 2023, fronted a TMZ documentary titled Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs & Kardashians.

During the documentary and in his memoir, Darkness to Light, Lamar detailed his struggles with substances and his journey getting clean from cocaine.

His recovery came following a highly publicized near-death experience back in 2015, when the sportsman overdosed in a brothel.

Following a four-day bender, Lamar was found unresponsive after having 12 seizures, six strokes, and his heart stopping twice.

“My doctors from Cedars-Sinai said, like, I’m a walking miracle,” he previously told ABC.

After the harrowing experience, Lamar admitted to having “no memory” of taking drugs that day, despite the near-lethal doses.

The incident – which came shortly after his split from wife Khloe – pushed Lamar to have a stint in rehab the following year.

However, he previously detailed how he has used small doses of ketamine under medical supervision in order to get clean.

In 2019, Lamar told ABC that he does occasionally have a social alcoholic drink, but has steered clear of any other substances.

Lamar rose to prominence for playing in NBA team Los Angeles Lakers, winning several accolades during his run in the professional league.

At the height of his fame, he married Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Khloe and the pair even had their own reality show, Khloe and Lamar.

However, things took a downward spiral for the couple as Lamar’s drug addiction worsened and he admitted to infidelities.

He has apologized publicly several times to his ex-wife, whom he split from in 2013 following four years of marriage.

The divorce was finalized two years later, in 2016.

The mother of a local tennis star joined Los Angeles County prosecutors on Monday in calling for stricter DUI penalties in California after they say her son was killed by a two-time drunk driver.

Braun Levi, an 18-year-old South Bay tennis standout, was struck and killed by a car in the early-morning hours of May 4 in Manhattan Beach.

According to Los Angeles County prosecutors, 33-year-old Jenia Resha Belt was behind the wheel, speeding while driving on a suspended license and with a blood alcohol level almost twice the legal limit. Belt, prosecutors say, has a previous conviction for driving drunk.

“California’s current DUI laws are broken and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and it’s devastating,” Braun’s mother, Jennifer Levi, said at a news conference Monday. “His death haunts my every breath, every day.”

Although his parents were proud of his athletic and academic achievements, they were most proud of how he treated other people, Levi said. “He had a smile for everybody. He had a heart for everybody. I miss him so much.”

In light of her son’s death, Levi said she would work with state Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), whose granddaughter died after being hit by a drunk driver last year, to write and pass a bill that will restructure the state’s DUI penalty laws and requirements, she said.

“The feeling, the sight, the smell of identifying our son’s body will never leave my mind, body or soul, so I will not be silent,” she said.

The SoCal athlete, who died a month before his high school graduation after entering the top national ranks in boys tennis, is part of a larger trend of DUI-related deaths over the last 15 years, according to a CalMatters investigative series that L.A. Dist. Atty. Nathan J. Hochman referenced.

Roadway deaths have been steadily rising since 2010, partially due to repeat drunk drivers and people driving over the speed limit, CalMatters reported. Alcohol-related deaths have increased by 50% over the last decade, according to the investigation.

“Braun should be home right now from his first semester at UVA, spending the holidays with his family, their first as a family still displaced by the Palisades fire,” said Councilmember Traci Park, whose district includes Pacific Palisades.

“He should be planning his future, not being remembered for the way his life was taken from him.”

California’s DUI laws, although considered to be nation-leading in the 1980s, have fallen behind the curve, Hochman said.

Hochman warned drivers, especially ahead of the New Year’s Day holiday, that his office would continue to charge them — and potentially those who over-serve alcohol at bars or parties — with serious crimes.

“We are here to prevent crimes and send crystal clear messages to would-be drunk and drug drivers, to people who want to engage in excessive speed on our roads: We will come after you,” Hochman said, calling the issue a “fight for people’s lives.”

Belt is charged with second-degree murder, felony gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and a misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license after a DUI. She is being held on $2-million bail and faces life in prison if convicted.

Belt’s arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 13.