Former Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attorney was arrested Wednesday night for charges of driving under the influence and for possessing drugs.
Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records. He was arrested by Gadsden police and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances, second-degree possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
Court records do not yet reflect the charges.
Garmon, who worked as an attorney for Moore during his failed campaign bid for the U.S. senate last year, is being held in the county jail on bonds totaling $3,000.
According to a lawsuit filed in January, Garmon sued the Alabama Department of Public Safety after the department suspended his driver’s license. In Garmon’s affidavit in that case, he calls himself a “safe and competent driver” and said his last fault wreck was in 2003 when he backed into another car in a bank drive through lane. Garmon said in the document that he has never injured anyone in a wreck.
Garmon said in that affidavit he was arrested in April 2018 and charged with driving under the influence in Pinellas County, Florida, while he was “literally taking a nap on the side of the road.”
“I will try that DUI if it is not lowered to reckless driving and I would only be pleading to reckless driving to make it go away given arriving safely to take a nap less than 200 yards from our home indicates that I was not reckless and was in fact taking a nap before meeting with company who was at our home," Garmon said in the affidavit.
Garmon also said there is video of him “(1) speaking coherently, (2) walking a line without any issue, (3) there are medical records from Nurse Ray at the jail where an eye scan was done.”
He also listed a recent traffic citation of speeding and changing lanes without a signal in Georgia.
Moore threatened to sue the Washington Post and other media over stories detailing allegations he had sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s when he was in his 30s. The now-71-year-old former Alabama chief justice denies the charges. Garmon sent cease-and-desist letters to the media agencies, including AL.com, in 2017.
Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat, defeated Moore in the December 2017 special election. Moore has considered a run for the seat again in 2020.
This post will be updated.