KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated last summer.
Pinkel, 74, was charged with a Class B misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated for an incident on July 7, 2025.
He was pulled over late that night in Camden County, Missouri, for operating a motor vehicle with “eight-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol” in his blood, according to a court document.
Pinkel’s plea bargain states he must pay a $1,000 fine, as well as nearly $350 in court costs and recoupment.
The 2025 arrest was Pinkel’s second DWI arrest. The first was in 2011.
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