The Washington Nationals’ star right-fielder and garden gnome model Jayson Werth will serve a five-day prison sentence for reckless driving.
Werth pleaded guilty to reckless driving in a circuit court today, NBC4 reports. Werth was originally pulled over on July 6 in Fairfax County for going a whopping 105 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone. He was later charged in August with a misdemeanor for reckless driving. He was convicted in December and appealed, but ultimately dropped it and pleaded guilty today.
Werth was sentenced by circuit court judge to 180 days in jail with 170 suspended, along with a $1,000 fine, with $800 suspended and a six-day suspended license, but he’ll only serve half that jail time, five days.
That is, five days he’ll spend during weekends “so the sentence won’t interfere with his physical therapy,” (Werth is scheduled to have shoulder surgery soon).
Lesson learned: Don’t recklessly drive in Virginia, unless you’re a popular professional athlete, to which you can just serve your jail time on the weekends.