Rodman In Trouble Again

March 7, 2000 / 5:18 PM EST / CBS/AP

The Worm is in trouble again.

Basketball star Dennis Rodman was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor drunken driving stemming from a December arrest in Costa Mesa. Meanwhile, his court date in Las Vegas on a cocktail waitress' claim that grabbed her breasts is nearing.

Police said the 38-year-old Dallas Mavericks forward had a blood-alcohol level of .15, nearly twice California's legal limit, when he was pulled over Dec. 22.

After his arrest, a smiling Rodman told reporters he had a couple of beers and had no criticism for officers who stopped him.

"They're doing their job, they're doing their job," he said.

His arraignment is scheduled for April 3.

On March 27, a trial is scheduled to start in Las Vegas in the federal lawsuit by Connie Wilcox that accuses Rodman of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

"I think he needs to be reprimanded for his conduct, so that he will not do this to anybody else," she said.

Wilcox said she was serving cocktails at the Las Vegas Hilton on April 19, 1998, when Rodman came up behind her and hugged her and picked her up. Wilcox said she dropped her tray of drinks as Rodman, with his hands on the sides of both her breasts, held her in the air for about 10 seconds.

"Maybe he thought I was a basketball or something," she said.

Rodman testified in an April 29 deposition that he didn't remember being at the Hilton that day.