Fla. Trooper Sought Tiger Woods Blood Test

(CBS/AP)  A Florida trooper who suspected Tiger Woods was driving under the influence sought a subpoena for the golfer's blood results from the hospital he was taken to after crashing his SUV, but prosecutors rejected the petition for insufficient information, according to a police report released Monday.

A witness, who wasn't identified in the report, told trooper Joshua Evans that Woods had been drinking alcohol earlier. The same witness also said Woods had been prescribed two drugs, Ambien and Vicodin.

The report did not say who the witness was but added it was the same person who pulled Woods from the vehicle after the accident outside his home. Woods' wife, Elin, has told police that she used a golf club to smash the back windows of the Cadillac Escalade to help her husband out.

"It's hard to imagine," says CBS News legal analyst Trent Copeland, "that if Tiger Woods was Tom Woods instead of Tiger Woods, that he would not have been taken into jail. ... The fact that Tiger Woods was not immediately investigated for driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or a drug seems to suggest that there was clearly some kind of preferential treatment here."

The police report adds weight to a report by The Daily Beast on Monday, claiming that Woods' apparently drowsy manner immediately following the accident was abnormal for a car crash victim.

Daily Beast chief investigative correspondent Gerald Posner told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith Monday that one doctor involved with Woods' treatment following a 2007 injury was so concerned about his level of prescription drug use that he sought to intervene.

Click on the video below to see the full Posner interview, including Posner's reporting on the possible involvement of Ambien, a sleep aid:


Watch CBS News Videos Online
"Impairment of the driver is also suspected due to the careless driving that resulted in the traffic crash," Evans wrote in the report dated Nov. 30 that was released by the State Attorney General's office.

Woods' attorney, Mark NeJame, didn't return a phone call for comment.

• Quick Poll

Will Tiger Woods lose some of his endorsements as a result of this incident and the way he handled it?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure

The world's No. 1 golfer hit a hydrant and a tree around 2:25 a.m. on Nov. 27. The Florida Highway Patrol last week cited Woods for careless driving and fined him $164.

Another police report offered new details into the accident from the officer who first responded to the 911 call.

Photos: Tiger Woods
Photos: Sports Sex Scandals
Photos: Elin Nordegren
Tiger Woods: I Let My Family Down
Parnevik: I Thought Tiger was a Better Guy
Tiger's Alleged Voicemail Message

Woods was at first unresponsive, lying on the road covered in a blanket and resting his head on a pillow, according to the report from the Windermere Police Department. The officer, whose name was redacted from the report, said Woods tried to stand up before the officer told him to lie down for his safety. The officer used the pillow to immobilize the golfer's spine.

Woods was bleeding from cut lips but was breathing normally. His wife, Elin, was kneeling over him.

The sport utility vehicle's engine was still running, the front passenger door was jammed and both rear door windows were broken out. Two golf clubs were next to a golf cart, which also was in the road. The officer found $235 in the vehicle, according to the report, which was obtained through a public records request.

Florida Highway Patrol investigators arrived after Woods had been taken to a hospital, the report said, explaining why they were unable to interview him at the accident site. In the days that followed, investigators tried three times to interview Woods, but he refused to meet with them.

The accident - and Woods' refusal to answer questions about it - fueled speculation about a possible dispute between the golfer and his wife.

Just days before the crash, a National Enquirer story alleged Woods had been seeing a New York nightclub hostess, Rachel Uchitel, who has denied it. After the crash, Us Weekly reported that a Los Angeles cocktail waitress named Jaimee Grubbs claims she had a 31-month affair with Woods.

Last week, Woods issued a statement saying he had let his family down with unspecified "transgressions" that he regrets with "all of my heart." He did not elaborate.

[JoeScrotum]

Influential scumbags have nothing to fear from ignorant cops....or the "justice system". If Woody was sufficiently coherent he could have taken off, like the celebrity below, without fear of consequences.



""""Wesley Snipes was thrown from his motorcycle but not seriously injured after a trooper for the Highway Patrol in Florida said the actor led him on a 120-mph chase.

Snipes, who stars in such films as Demolition Man, Sugar Hill, and Rising Sun, was riding his motorcycle in Jupiter, FL, when he allegedly sped by the trooper and led him on a 30-mile chase that ended when Snipes lost control of his motorcycle as he tried to exit a highway offramp and was thrown off of it.

The 31-year-old actor refused medical treatment and was cited at the scene for reckless driving, A spokesman for Snipes told the Associated Press that "contrary to rumors of an intentional high-speed chase, Mr. Snipes was unaware of the patrol car trailing him."

[toldyouso21]

What BS--the first articles stated the police came to the scene to find Woods on the ground unresponsive with his wife over him--the beating out of the window with the golf club had already happened AND Woods was still there and could have been tested for Blood Alcohol levels--they just didn't. Because he was rich. Who are we kidding? All of the world knows that in America there is preferential treatment for those in power, the rich, or those with money/connections and by race--it is a lie to ever to suggest otherwise....

[toylover]

Innocent until proved guilty!?
What if Tiger and his wife had a fight and he decided to leave. She jumps in the golf cart to pursue him... he looks in the mirror sees her and hits the hydrant because he was looking in the mirror????? She may have smashed out a window before he hit the hydrant?

[Oregon_State_OSU]

ffoulkes-2009 December 8, 2009 9:22 AM EST
Please don't SPAM on these boards. Go elsewhere to sell your crap.


KRAP is the Word,,,, you said it,,, more Christmas KRAP !

[Oregon_State_OSU]

Vicodin and Vodka that's a great Midnight Snack.

Tiger says "Its GR-88888888888888888888888888888888888"

[cbs4me3]

Why isn't he behind bars? Anyone else would have been cuffed and led off for refusing to cooperate with the police. What makes him special? Actually, he is now less than special with the birdie count at 10, renegotiated pre-nup, other potential payments, and now Elin apparently buying a house on an island in her home country.

[sean56v]

Tiger probably abuses subatances like methamphetamine and crack cocaine. The Police should arrest him for psychosis.

[KabulsHere-0003]

by formrusmcsgt December 8, 2009 4:13 AM EST
Either ALL these women are lying, or Tiger's not much of a man.

No honor.
****************************************************

He's a liberal, a Democrat party voter and certainly voted for Obanana.

[cherokeedreamer]

"by pigsinlipstick December 8, 2009 5:09 AM EST
what a crock, what about a right to privacy and minding your own business?"
Tiger has made it his life to be out there in the public eye. He's become a billionaire based on that quest. He's just like all these high profile men who have HUMILATED their spouses and significant others with sexual cheating. His right to privacy is compromised by his quest for fame and fortune. You can't have it both ways~if you don't want to be skewered on the kabob of public opinion, you better live a life as pure as the driven snow. You think minding 'your own business' is what should be done? Wrong~he's took money from the public thru endorsements and the like BASED off the 'image' he is selling.
His wife and all those other wives in the Letterman, Spitzer, Sandford, Getty cases of high profile infidelity have to live daily with the gossip, the speculation ,the humilation not only for themselves but their kids because their old men couldn't keep their zipper up and the part of them that belongs to their wife and no other in their pants...why should they put up with it?? WHY tell me that???? WHY should we?? A committed relationship should be just that, despite that old perv' from Playboy's stance that "momogamy is overrated"~I guess so if you're a sex-addicted liar.
Divorce is so easy, its just wrong to cheat, especially in the manner described by Tiger, with not one woman, but three and while his wife has been pregnant twice? and still living the lie with that wife who wouldn't even date him at first?? I don't think so.
Yea, sure Tiger and them are all class acts. No class or act I care to follow.

[longtree-2009]

prosecutors were obviously star struck or golfers. tiger is a public figure, a celibrity, even though he is not an elected official. if tiger gets a free pass, privacy pass, then clinton, monica, sanford, edwards, jfk, ensign, newt gingrich, and et al should get the same free pass even retroactively.

[ffoulkes-2009]

Now why couldn't the officer obtain that blood test? It would seem that a toxicology report would be valuable in determining the cause of the crash.

[AOCGUY]

pig - Fact is that Tiger drove his vehicle on a public road, hit a city owned fire hydrant and ended up in a neighbor's yard against a neighbor's tree. If he was DWI, then he and all those on the road are fortunate that he only made it as far as his neighbor's tree. Since the police were called it is appropriate to invesitgate whether alcohol was involved. Don't what the laws are in your state but here in Florida it is illegal to operate a motor vehicle while impaired.

[ffoulkes-2009]

Piggy,

You really should read the stories before you post hate-filled drivel toward other posters.

The man drove his vehicle off his property, onto a public road and into a public fire hydrant and a neighbors private property (tree). Any ONE of those three things are just cause to have his toxicology reports examined by the authorities.