Mary Lou Retton, the celebrated American gymnast, was apprehended in her native West Virginia on a misdemeanor DUI charge following a May 17th incident wherein law enforcement, responding to reports of erratic operation of a Porsche vehicle, encountered Retton exhibiting signs of inebriation – including olfactory evidence of alcohol consumption and impaired articulation – in addition to the presence of an open container; the 57-year-old Retton, having failed field sobriety assessments and declined both preliminary breath analysis and subsequent blood toxicology, was processed and released on a $1,500 recognizance, with legal counsel Edmund J. Rollo remaining conspicuously silent on the matter, an event transpiring against the backdrop of her widely publicized 2023 convalescence from a critical bout of atypical pneumonia necessitating intensive respiratory intervention.