HAWAII
Huffington Post
Chris D’Angelo
Associate Editor, HuffPost Hawaii
Posted: 08/24/2015
One of the Roman Catholic Church’s most senior clergymen was arrested last week for driving under the influence during a trip to Hawaii.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Monday that 79-year-old Cardinal William Joseph Levada, of Menlo Park, California, was stopped at about midnight Thursday in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island after a patrol car saw him swerve.
Levada, formerly the highest ranking American official in the Vatican, was charged with driving under the influence and was released from police custody after posting $500 bail.
In a statement emailed to The Huffington Post by a spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Levada said, “I regret my error in judgment. I intend to continue fully cooperating with the authorities.”
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