Arrest report gives details on UNLV basketball player’s DUI arrest
An report released Thursday by the Metropolitan Police Department provides more details in the misdemeanor DUI arrest of a UNLV men’s basketball player Sunday.
Kalib Xavier Boone, 22, was arrested after Metro officers responded to a report of a crash with injuries at South Maryland Parkway and Sahara Avenue just after 3:20 a.m. on Sunday.
According to Metro’s Impaired Driving Report from the incident, Boone told police he hadn’t had anything to drink or smoke, but officers arrested him because they alleged “the performance of his field sobriety test showed multiple signs of impairment.”
Police responded to the intersection to find a black two-door 2022 Audi facing south in a northbound U-turn/turn lane. The car had damage to its sides, police said.
A firefighter who responded told an officer that one of the drivers was sitting in the back of a nearby Chase bank. The officer then found two men sitting in the back of the bank at 2514 S. Maryland Parkway. One of the men identified himself as Kalib Boone, the arrest report said.
“Kalib stated that he was driving the vehicle south bound and attempted to merge into his left lane, while doing so there was another car there, so he jerked the wheel and crashed his car,” the report stated.
The officer asked Boone if he had had anything to smoke or drink, and Boone said no. The officer asked Boone if he would be able to complete a field sobriety test and Boone agreed, the report said.
The portion of the arrest report that appears to describe what happened during the field sobriety test was redacted, as were other sections of the report, so it wasn’t clear what exactly transpired.
It also wasn’t clear from the report if anybody was injured in the crash, or what those injuries consisted of, despite the initial call — which the report said came from an unknown caller — being a report of an accident with injury.
The report goes on to say that once Boone was placed in handcuffs, he told the officer he had been at a bar called We All Scream, located on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
The officer wrote in the report that he believed Boone “was impaired because of his driving pattern (causing him to crash his vehicle), the last place he left was a bar and the performance of his field sobriety test showed multiple signs of impairment.”
A UNLV Athletics spokesperson issued the samestatement Thursday afternoon that the university issued on Monday.
“We are aware that there was an incident and are in the process of gathering more information,” the spokesperson said in a Thursday email.
Boone, a 6-foot, 9-inch forward, came to UNLV during the offseason after four years at Oklahoma State. He joined his twin brother, Keylan Boone, who also arrived at UNLV after spending the past season at California’s University of the Pacific and before that, three seasons at Oklahoma State.
Contact Brett Clarkson at bclarkson@reviewjournal.com.
