By: E&P Staff A report in the Tampa Tribune today states that Janet Weaver, the executive editor of the paper, was arrested early this morning on a charge of DUI.
Tampa police arrested Weaver at 12:30 a.m., says the report, and found that she had a blood alcohol level between 0.081 and 0.085. The legal limit for drivers in Florida is 0.08. She spent about five hours in jail, and then was released on $500 bond.
Weaver was hired to be managing editor at the Tribune in 2004, and was promoted to executive editor in January 2005.
?I am deeply embarrassed on every level,? said Weaver in to a collegue writing a story for the paper. ?As a journalist, as a representative of the Tribune and certainly as a person. I have tried to conduct myself in a way that would make the people who care about me proud and I certainly don?t feel that this morning.?
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