Former Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleads guilty to drunk driving, speeding up to 156 mph in deadly crash

Henry Ruggs, the former Las Vegas Raiders player charged in a deadly 2021 car crash, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to driving while intoxicated at speeds up to 156 miles per hour before causing the fatal collision. 

A 23-year-old woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog were both killed when Ruggs' car rear-ended hers on a city street in Las Vegas, police said at the time. Tintor's vehicle went up in flames, and authorities later determined that both she and the dog burned to death in the incident.

"Guilty," said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24, who will avoid trial and is expected to be sentenced Aug. 9 to three to 10 years in state prison under terms of his plea deal with prosecutors. The minimum three-year sentence cannot be reduced by converting the year-and-a-half that he has spent on house arrest to time already served.