{"id":39055,"date":"2025-07-09T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/bodycam-footage-mug-shot-released\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:30:35","slug":"bodycam-footage-mug-shot-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/bodycam-footage-mug-shot-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam Footage, Mug Shot Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/mary-lou-retton\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou Retton<\/a>\u00a0appeared to refuse blood alcohol level tests, and told police officers &#8220;I&#8217;m West Virginia&#8217;s first daughter!&#8221; during her<a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/olympic-gymnast-mary-lou-retton-arrest-dui\/\" target=\"_blank\"> arrest for DUI <\/a>in Marion County, West Va., in May.<\/p>\n<p>Newly released bodycam footage obtained by\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z8XSrJTsM3k\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a><\/em> shows the full incident, which began when Retton was detained by officers in the parking lot of an AutoZone store.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you can see officers administering a field sobriety test that requires Retton to lift her foot up six inches off the ground and count until told to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Retton complied with the tests but appeared to struggle to execute them. In the clip, she protests the amount of counting she has to do, says &#8220;Oh, come on,&#8221; and struggles to breathe at one point during the test, taking a break to use her oxygen tank.<\/p>\n<p>More footage from the 30-minute-long video shows her being handcuffed with her hands in front of her, after telling police that she can&#8217;t have her hands behind her back due to the multiple shoulder surgeries she has undergone over the course of her life. Later video shows her at the police station.<\/p>\n<p><em>Entertainment Tonight\u00a0<\/em>also obtained Retton&#8217;s mug shots, which are included in the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/mary-lou-retton-dui-arrest-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou Retton Reportedly Slurred Words, Drove Erratically Before Arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retton was arrested on a DUI charge on May 17, after police got a call about a Porsche driving &#8220;all over the roadway&#8221; in Marion County.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers claim that Retton smelled like alcohol and spoke with slurred speech, and that they noticed a screw-top bottle of wine in the passenger seat of her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/mary-lou-retton-dui-arrest-breaks-silence\/\" target=\"_blank\">appeared in court<\/a> on June 10, entering a no contest plea to a non-aggravated DUI charge. She received a $100 fine, which is standard for first-time offenders of this misdemeanor charge in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Retton also issued a public statement saying she took &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for her actions during the incident. She also expressed her commitment to learning from the event, and said she was &#8220;committed to making positive changes in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened was completely unacceptable,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I make no excuses. To my family, friends and fans: I have let you down, and for that I am deeply sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/mary-lou-retton-dui-arrest-breaks-silence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou Retton Issues First Statement Since DUI Arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>57-year-old Retton is a retired gymnast who made history at the 1984 Olympic Games when she became the first U.S. woman to receive a gold medal in the women&#8217;s all-around gymnastics competition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, she battled a <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/mary-lou-retton-update-daughters-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">rare and near-fatal form of pneumonia<\/a>, and her daughters kept fans posted on her condition during her time in the ICU.<\/p>\n<p>As she recovered, Retton opened up about her ordeal in several interviews, revealing that her illness was so severe that she &#8220;should be dead,&#8221; and her recovery left her with &#8220;a new lease on life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though she has made a remarkable recovery, Retton said that she has scarring in her lungs that will affect her for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">R.I.P.: 40 Country Singers and Songwriters Who Died Too Soon<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>These country singers had so much more to give. See 40 country singers who died much too soon: Keith Whitley, Mindy McCready, Troy Gentry and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=69&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/mary-lou-retton-dui-arrest-bodycam-footage-mug-shot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou Retton\u00a0appeared to refuse blood alcohol level tests, and told police officers &#8220;I&#8217;m West Virginia&#8217;s first daughter!&#8221; during her arrest for DUI in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}