Shonn Greene arrested for parking in handicap space, other driving charges

Tennessee Titans running back Shonn Greene was arrested Friday night for a variety of driving-related charges. He reportedly fled the scene of an incident while driving with a suspended license.

According to Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean, the incident began when Greene parked his vehicle in a handicap spot. When a parking enforcement officer approached Green, he reportedly got in his car and drove around the officer’s vehicle, nearly swiping it on his way by.

From there, Greene allegedly sped off and drove away when he was approached by police. An investigation later revealed that Greene was the one responsible for the incident, and authorities contacted him and convinced him to turn himself in.

“The entire situation could have been avoided if he would have left that handicap space for who is was intended for,” Franklin Police Department Sergeant Charles Warner said. “The fact that he didn’t and got caught being parked there, he could have stopped things from going any further than a parking ticket if he would have simply communicated with the parking enforcement officer and not taken such evasive measures to get away from her, increasing the seriousness of what would have been a simple parking ticket.”

We’re assuming the reason Greene was so adamant about getting away is that he had a suspended license, though I doubt the parking attendant would have done much aside from asking him to move his car.

Not the brightest of moves.