TRUCKEE, Calif. — Former NFL halfback and Grant High School football star Onterrio Smith was booked into the Nevada County Sheriff's Office's jail in Truckee overnight on a drug charge warrant.

At about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, Truckee police pulled over a Pontiac GT for speeding westbound on Interstate 80 near central Truckee, and arrested the driver, John Payne-Johnson Sr., for suspicion of driving under the influence, said Truckee Police Capt. Randy Fenn.

During the routine check, the officer found Smith had an outstanding warrant out of Sacramento, and arrested him as well, Fenn said.

“He'll sit in jail until Sacramento comes to pick him up,” said Fenn Thursday morning. “Other than the fact that he's a former NFL star, it's pretty unremarkable.”

The sheriff's office jail report indicates Smith was booked in at 12:26 a.m., with a bail of $15,000.

Smith, 28, was a nationally-recruited star during his high school days in Sacramento and played at the University of Tennessee and the University of Oregon before joining the Minnesota Vikings.

He played for the Vikings during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In May of 2005 he was suspended for that season after he was caught at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying a kit used to beat drug tests, according to the Associated Press.

Smith's arrest at that time was the subject of many jokes because the kit he was caught with included a false penis and was called the “Original Whizzanator,” according to the Minneapolis-Star Tribune.

He signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League the next year, but was cut after showing up to training camp 20 pounds overweight and breaking his foot, the Star Tribune reported.

The former player was arrested at 4 a.m. on May 2 in Sacramento on suspicion of driving while under the influence, according to CBS13.com, the Web site of the CBS Broadcasting affiliate in Sacramento.

— Reporter Greyson Howard contributed to this report.