ALBUQUERQUE, March 3 (UPI) -- Officials say a drunken-driving arrest prompted them to reassign the head of the U.S. agency that transports nuclear weapons around the country.
Craig Tucker, 49, Tijeras, N.M., was reassigned after he was arrested by Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies while parked on a rural New Mexico highway in late January, The Santa Fe (N.M.) New Mexican said Tuesday.
The arresting officers said breath blood-alcohol tests indicated an alcohol level of 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit in New Mexico. The officers said Tucker admitted to having consumed a beer and a sleeping pill.
Tucker is the head of the Office of Secure Transportation but has been reassigned to other classified duties within in the National Nuclear Safety Administration. A spokesman told the New Mexican Tucker could lose his job if he is convicted.
