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August Busch IV, former CEO of Anheuser-Busch, was held by police Monday after his helicopter landed on an office park parking lot in Swansea, Illinois. He was taken into custody after he tried to leave on the helicopter later Monday night and appeared intoxicated, police said. Court documents said he had no alcohol in his system but failed sobriety tests, as reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The paper also reports that police found several guns and prescription drugs inside the helicopter.
Busch was released Tuesday, and the investigation is ongoing.
This isn't the first time that Busch, who ran the St. Louis brewing empire for two years before it was sold to InBev in 2008, has had a run-in with the law. In January, he was questioned by Florida police when he pulled a gun during a confrontation at a bank in Key West; authorities said there were no injuries and no arrests were made. In 2010, Busch's former girlfriend Adrienne Nicole Martin was found dead from an accidental drug overdose at his Huntleigh home; a wrongful death suit seeking damages for Martin's son was later filed, and Busch agreed to a $1.5 million settlement.
