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PROVO — A BYU football player pleaded guilty Monday to impaired driving.
Neil Armstrong Pau'u was charged in June in Provo Justice Court with DUI, a class B misdemeanor; and interfering with a traffic control device, a class C misdemeanor.
On June 8, just before 1 a.m., Pau'u drove onto a newly paved road that was blocked off by a police patrol car with flashing emergency lights, a barricade and yellow tape, according to a Utah County Jail report. Pau'u drove around the police car and through the yellow tape.
When police stopped him, an officer could smell a "strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from inside the vehicle," the report states.