Tracy Morgan given probation in DUI case

Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ regular pleaded no contest to drunken driving

Tracy Morgan was given three years probation after pleading no contest to drunken driving.

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updated 5:55 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2006

LOS ANGELES - Former “Saturday Night Live” regular Tracy Morgan was given three years’ probation after pleading no contest to drunken driving, authorities said Friday.

The 37-year-old comedian was arrested shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 2 in Hollywood after police stopped him for speeding, city attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

He had a blood-alcohol level of .13 percent, well above the legal limit of .08 percent, Mateljan said.

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On Feb. 17, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, fined $390 and ordered to attend an alcohol education program, Mateljan said.

He had initially pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges on Jan. 13.

Morgan was a “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1996 to 2003, leaving the show to star in the short-lived “The Tracy Morgan Show.”