D’IBERVILLE — Former 3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell is set to go to trial in D’Iberville Monday on a charge of second-offense driving under the influence of a substance other than alcohol.
The 43-year-old Harrell is under house arrest in Nashville on a charge of vehicular homicide by intoxication.
The Sun Herald reports Municipal Judge Albert Fountain will presided over the trial.
Harrell was arrested on the second-offense DUI charge Feb. 18, 2014, after a caller reported a man slumped over the steering wheel of a sport-utility vehicle. Harrell was in a family member’s SUV at 7 p.m. at Lamey Bridge Road and Central Avenue and was visibly impaired, D’Iberville police said at the time.
Police called Fountain for a court order to draw Harrell’s blood for a toxicology test and the judge set a cash bond of $1,789. Fountain ordered Harrell’s bond be paid in full before his release, instead of allowing him to pay only 10 percent of the bond.
The Escatawpa native is 43 and was convicted of a first-offense drug-related DUI in D’Iberville about a month before he was involved the fatal crash in Nashville. Harrell was arrested July 19, 2012, after his car rear-ended a pickup. He appealed that conviction in a bench trial in Harrison County Court on Jan. 8, 2014, and was found guilty again.
His D’Iberville impaired-driving conviction and repeat allegations cost him his job as bassist for 3 Doors Down, known for hits such as “Kryptonite.” He was a founding member of the band, formed in Escatawpa in 1996.
In the Nashville case, Harrell is accused of driving impaired by prescription drugs and alcohol when he was involved in a crash April 19, 2013, that killed driver Paul Howard Shoulders Jr., 47.
Davidson County, Tennessee, Criminal Court Clerk Jason Garrett on Friday said no trial date has yet been set in that case. There is a hearing set for March 27 on a motion to suppress.
After his first D’Iberville DUI arrest, a Davidson County judge revoked his bond on the felony case and ordered house arrest.
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