HELENA, Mont.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The former Navy SEAL who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden was arrested Friday on a drunken driving charge after police found him asleep in a car parked at a convenience store in his Montana hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customers at the store in Butte called police to report a sleeping man behind the wheel of the running car around 2:30 a.m., Butte-Silver Bow County Undersheriff George Skuletich said. The officer who responded woke the man up, identified him as Robert O’Neill and noticed odd behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He was confused. His actions were consistent with somebody who might be under the influence of something,” Skuletich said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Neill denied drinking, gave different stories about where he had been and at one point told the officers he had taken prescription medication to help him sleep, Skuletich said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Neill failed a field sobriety test and would not perform others. The officers brought him to jail, where he refused a test to determine his blood alcohol level. At that point, he was charged with driving under the influence, which is a misdemeanor, Skuletich said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jail records show O’Neill was released at 4:26 a.m. after posting a $685 bond. It is O’Neill’s first arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A phone number listed for O’Neill was disconnected. It’s not clear whether he had hired an attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Neill began publicly discussing his role in the 2011 bin Laden raid two years ago. He told The Associated Press in a 2014 interview that the American public had a right to know more details about the killing of the al-Qaida leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Pentagon officials previously said it is not clear whose shots killed bin Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Neill has made numerous speeches across the country since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Neill, who joined the Navy in 1995, participated in the 2009 rescue of the captain of a merchant ship taken hostage by Somali pirates, a mission that was the subject of the Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also helped rescue the survivor of a four-man team attacked in 2005 while tracking a Taliban leader in Afghanistan, which was featured in the 2013 film “Lone Survivor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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