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Bucs Linebacker Jailed On DUI Charge Released From Team

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By VALERIE KALFRIN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 18, 2008

Updated: 10/18/2008 04:53 pm

  Matt McCoy

TAMPA - Matt McCoy, a linebacker signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a free agent earlier this year, was released from the team today after being arrested this morning on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence.

Jail records show Tampa police arrested McCoy at 4:11 a.m. at West Paul Avenue and South Sheridan Road, less than 500 feet from his home in the Gandy/Sun Bay South neighborhood.

About 4 p.m., the Buccaneers announced in a news release that they had promoted wide-receiver Brian Clark from the practice squad to the active roster and released McCoy "to make room."

McCoy, 26, was released from Orient Road Jail after posting $500 bail.

Police stopped McCoy driving a 2008 BMW after seeing the vehicle heading west in the eastbound lanes of Gandy Boulevard, according to an arrest affidavit. McCoy swayed while he was standing, had glazed eyes and the odor of alcohol, the affidavit stated. He refused to undergo field sobriety tests, citing his attorney's advice, the affidavit said.

McCoy refused a breath-alcohol test, jail records say.

McCoy is a California native who was signed by the Bucs as a free agent in March, according to the Buccaneers Web site. Before coming to Tampa, he had been signed by New Orleans as a free agent and drafted by Philadelphia, the Web site says.

He played college ball at San Diego State.

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