A teenager claimed to be a UNM Lobo football recruit as police arrested him for DWI in head coach Mike Locksley’s vehicle.Joshua Butts, 19 was pulled over in a dark blue SUV near University Stadium moments before Saturday’s kickoff.The vehicle is registered to Locksley and his wife.Locksley and UNM refused to make a statement.Police said they pulled the vehicle over because it almost hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk.Butts showed signs of impairment and stumbled when he got out of the vehicle.According to the police report, he told police he was brought from Chicago to play football and that he was on his way to the game in, “coaches car.”Three other minors were in the SUV at the time and all showed signs of impairment.Two were released. Ashley Wellito, 20, was in the front seat and became hostile towards police.She threatened, “I will use my father’s powers,” to find out where the officers lived.Butts and Wellito were arrested and booked at the Metropolitan Detention Center.Wellito was charged with offenses by children.Butts faces charges of aggravated DWI, minor in possession of alcohol, reckless driving and no driver’s license.
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