PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) – Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and possessing a firearm while under the influence of alcohol.
Wallace appeared Tuesday in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac. He faces a maximum penalty of 93 days in jail when he returns to court Dec. 13, but his attorney expects probation. A felony charge of possessing a concealed weapon was dropped.
Police in Bloomfield Township stopped the 37-year-old in a Cadillac Escalade about 3 a.m. Sept. 24. An unloaded pistol registered to his wife was discovered in a backpack.
A breath test showed Wallace had a blood-alcohol level of 0.14 percent, which is above Michigan’s legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Assistant prosecutor Robert Novy says Wallace was very cooperative.