Cedar Hill FB coach McGuire faces DWI charge
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:13 pmhttp://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04 ... show.html/
The head coach who has led Cedar Hill High’s football team to three state championships was arrested on a DWI charge early Friday, according to jail records.
Joey McGuire, 43, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail about 4:40 a.m. Friday, said Terry Grisham, a spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s office.
Grisham said the Texas Department of Public Safety is the lead agency on the case because a trooper arrested McGuire. Bail was set at $500.
Reached by phone Friday afternoon, McGuire’s wife declined to comment on the arrest. A Cedar Hill ISD spokeswoman said she was not aware of the arrest, but would look into it.
McGuire, a Midlothian resident, has been at Cedar Hill since 1997 and was elevated from assistant to head coach in December 2002. Cedar Hill had never won a playoff game before he became head coach and has now played in four state title games and won three of them. Cedar Hill won Class 5A Division II championships in 2006 and 2013, and last year it claimed the 6A Division II crown.
In January, McGuire was offered a position as assistant coach at Texas but turned down the opportunity to join coach Charlie Strong’s staff. McGuire said he couldn’t pass up the chance to coach his son, Garret, a quarterback who will be a junior at Cedar Hill in the fall.