Former commissioner Collins arrested Friday on suspicion of DUI
Former Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins was involved in a car crash and arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Friday night.
Metro's dispatch and booking logs show that Collins, whose legal name is Clarence Weldon Collins Jr., was involved in a car crash with injury about 7:02 p.m. Friday near Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. More information on the wreck was not immediately available Saturday.
Collins was booked at 7:50 p.m. and faces charges of driving under the influence and being above the legal limit, logs show.
About two hours before the crash, Collins tweeted a photo of UNLV's Thomas and Mack Center featuring the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo sign. Along with the photo, he asks "Are you on your way?"
Another tweet from Collins' account shows that he was at the WNFR with his mother on Thursday.
Thomas and Mack is about a mile and a half from the location of the car crash.
Clark County Detention Center logs show that he was no longer in custody as of Saturday afternoon.
Multiple phone calls to Collins from the Review-Journal were not returned Saturday.
Collins served on the Clark County Commission starting in 2005 and resigned in August of 2015.
His resignation letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval said that he was leaving "due to family matters that I will be dedicated to for the next several months that will certainly impact my service to my constituents in District B and throughout Clark County."
Collins told the Review-Journal in September that he will run for mayor of North Las Vegas in 2017.
This is not the "cowboy commissioner's" first run in with the law. In 1991, he was charged with felony drunken driving and reckless driving after crashing the truck he was driving, injuring himself and two other men. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and agreed to attend drunken driving classes.
In July 2012, his neighbors called North Las Vegas Police after hearing at least seven shots fired on his property. He did not face criminal charges.
In August 2012, Collins pleaded no contest to charges of disturbing the peace and livestock at large after a bull escaped from his property and injured a 42-year-old woman.
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