Charge: Driving while intoxicated and reckless driving

Arrest Date: January 12, 1990

Franchise: Seattle Supersonics

Age 29

Details: While driving up a highway on-ramp at 2am, Ellis veered sharply into a collapsible barrier and across into the express lanes before crashing.  Ellis was hospitalized with a collapsed lung and three broken ribs, and arrested for driving while intoxicated.  This was his third arrest in the previous 3 years.

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