Sha’Carri Richardson couldn’t run herself out fo trouble this time.

World champion sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is back in the news this week. Richardson was booked into the Orange County Jail in Florida on Thursday. A sheriff’s department spokesperson claimed she had been ‘dangerously tailgating and traveling across lanes of travel to pass other motorists.’

She later posted $500 bond and was released. The official charge is dangerous, excessive speeding at 100mph or more. According to TMZ, an arrest affidavit claims police used radar to catch Richardson’s Aston Martin going at 104mph.

What made things even worse was that her boyfriend was also arrested on the same day. After she was pulled over, Christian Coleman would find himself being arrested.

When Sha’Carri Richardson was pulled over, a black Jeep stopped nearby. It was Coleman. He stepped out and asked officers what was going on. TMZ claims he was instructed to walk back to his vehicle. As he returned to his Jeep, the cop said he had dropped an object in the grass.

TMZ claims that Richardson identified Coleman as her boyfriend, but police say that he refused to identify himself. That led to Coleman’s arrest for resisting. His arrest led to a search of his vehicle, where they found a ‘glass smoking device.’ It contained a small amount of cannabis.

TMZ has now dropped bodycam footage of the initial interaction with Richardson.

Sha’Carri Richardson Begs Not to Be Arrested

US’ Sha’Carri Richardson ((Photo by Martin BERNETTI / AFP)
Olympic medalist Sha’Carri Richardson did everything she could to avoid going back to jail for the second time in less than a year. The 25-year-old sprinter was arrested and booked in Orange County on a charge of dangerous excessive speeding at 100 mph or more.

Bodycam footage has since been released of Richardson begging the arresting officer not to take her to jail.

“I’d wipe that smile off your face,” the cop says before explaining she was being “stopped for dangerous, excessive speeding.”

“You’re driving at 104 miles per hour in a 65 miles per hour zone, with subpar equipment, flashing people to get out of your way, following too close, using every lane to pass everybody, cutting me off, passing a car on the inside shoulder with their hazard lights on, you’re going to jail for dangerous excessive speeding.”

Sha’Carri Richardson then tried to talk her way out of going to jail.

“I really want to work with you, sir. I am a law-abiding citizen,” Sha’Carri said. “Sir, please don’t allow me to go to jail. Please. Please, sir.”

“Please, sir. I’m begging you. Don’t take me to jail. I will do everything. My tire, I cannot go to jail. I promise you, I don’t want to go to jail. I’m right here. I have a team here. I have a coach, everything. I was not intentionally doing anything.”

Richardson is one of the bigger names in Track & Field. She won silver in the 100 meters and gold in the 4×100-meter relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

She is no stranger to controversy off the track. In August, she was arrested on allegations that she assaulted her boyfriend at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

In 2021, she was suspended for a month after she tested positive for THC.