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FILE - Former Alabama backmost Jay Barker, left, and his woman state euphony vocalist Sara Evans get astatine the 46th yearly Academy of Country Music Awards successful Las Vegas connected April 3, 2011. Barker was arrested Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, connected a felony home unit charge, Tennessee authorities said. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former Alabama backmost Jay Barker, who is joined to state euphony vocalist Sara Evans, was arrested Saturday connected a felony home unit charge, Tennessee authorities said.

Barker, 49, was booked into a Nashville region jailhouse aboriginal Saturday morning, according to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office website. He was charged with aggravated battle with a deadly limb and placed connected a $10,000 enslaved with a 12-hour clasp due to the fact that it was a home unit case. He was released Saturday nighttime aft posting bond.

WABM-TV successful Birmingham reported that an apprehension affidavit said Barker and the unfortunate are joined but separated and presently surviving separately. The Tennessean reported that the apprehension affidavit connected record with Metro Nashville General Sessions Court said 2 radical successful the conveyance were leaving a enactment astir 1:30 a.m. Saturday erstwhile Barker allegedly reversed his conveyance “at a precocious complaint of velocity attempting to deed them, but missed.”

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Barker did not reply a telephone from the AP and it was not instantly wide whether helium had an lawyer who could comment.

Barker is simply a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, sports vigor speech amusement host. He led Alabama to the nationalist title successful 1992. He won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award arsenic the nation’s apical upperclassman astatine the presumption and was 5th successful the Heisman Trophy voting successful 1994.

Barker led Alabama to a 35-2-1 grounds arsenic starting quarterback.

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This communicative has been corrected to amusement that Barker is simply a sports vigor speech amusement big successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama, not Birmingham, Alabama.

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