Former KFAN and ESPN 1500 sports radio personality Jeff Dubay has pleaded guilty after a recent drug-related arrest in Todd County, Minnesota. Dubay has a long string of previous convictions for drug possession, as well as other convictions for assault, domestic assault, and driving offenses.
Dubay, 56, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while under the influence of an illicit drug after being pulled over on March 8. In exchange for the guilty plea, Dubay will have a felony-level 3rd-degree drug possession and an additional driving under the influence charge dismissed.
According to the charges, via the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
“On the evening of March 8, a state trooper saw an SUV traveling erratically before stopping in the West Union Catholic Church parking lot. The SUV then left the parking lot, prompting the trooper to pull the driver over.
Dubay explained he was heading to Fargo and got off the freeway in order to get the Minnesota Gophers hockey game on his cellphone. Dubay, beneath a blanket and naked, said he had been sleeping at a rest stop near Avon earlier.
The trooper saw that Dubay was restless, sweaty and speaking rapidly. He explained that he stopped taking his medication. He acknowledged using methamphetamine about a week earlier.
As Dubay got out of his SUV to perform sobriety testing, he was covered in vegetable oil that came from a bottle he had with him. Drug smugglers have been known to use various cooking oils to conceal meth as it is shipped.
Dubay failed numerous aspects of the sobriety testing. A law enforcement search of his vehicle turned up methamphetamine and two small bottles of adhesive remover. “It was suspected that Dubay may have been huffing from those bottles,” the charges read. While at the jail, Dubay acknowledged using meth that morning.“
Dubay told the Star Tribune in a brief phone call that “the police report is full of misinformation and horrible assumptions.”
Dubay was a longtime sports talker on KFAN as a co-host with Paul Allen. He was fired after his arrest in 2008 for cocaine possession. Dubay later returned to sports radio in 2013 with 1500 ESPN, however, he was laid off in 2014.
