The starting kicker of the Ball State University football team was suspended indefinitely after he was arrested Saturday.
Ian McGarvey was arrested at approximately 2:15 a.m. Saturday by Ball State police on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and minor consumption, according to the arrest report from the police department.
Associate Athletics Director Joe Hernandez said McGarvey was suspended indefinitely, but coach Stan Parrish declined to comment further. McGarvey also declined to comment, Hernandez said.
Dispatch received a call Saturday about a white Ford Explorer driving extremely slow and stopping in front of houses on Riverside Avenue, according to the report. Police spotted the vehicle, for which the caller had also provided a license plate number, pulling into the Ball State Emens Auditorium parking garage near Riverside and Martin Street.
Police followed the car to the second floor of the parking garage and approached the driver, McGarvey.
The officer told McGarvey police received a call about a suspicious vehicle that matched his car. McGarvey - who did not look at the officer while talking - said he did not know why someone would report him because he was driving normally, according to the report.
The officer smelled alcohol on McGarvey's breath and conducted three field sobriety tests, according to the report. McGarvey, who is 19 years old, passed the one leg stand, and walk and turn tests, according to the report. He failed the horizontal gaze nystagmus test, which monitors the jerkiness of eye movement to determine sobriety, according to the report.
McGarvey blew a .087 on a Breathalyzer test, according to the report. A separate chemical test found his breath alcohol content to be .10, according to the report.
McGarvey was taken to Delaware County jail and released at approximately 6 a.m. on $3,500 bail, according to jail officials.
He faces two preliminary charges of driving while intoxicated - a Class A misdemeanor and a Class C misdemeanor - and one preliminary charge of minor consumption - a Class C misdemeanor - according to jail officials.
If convicted of the Class A misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge, McGarvey could face up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine, according to Indiana Code. If convicted of the Class C misdemeanors, he could face up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for each count, according to Indiana Code.
McGarvey attempted all of the Cardinals' field goals and extra points during the 2008 season after splitting time with Jake Hogue in 2007. The two split kickoffs during the 2008 season.
McGarvey made 16-of-21 field goal attempts in 2008. The sophomore tied a career high by making a 47-yard field goal against Kent State University and against the University at Buffalo in the Mid-American Conference Championship Game.
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