By msnbc.com staff and NBC News
Update 1:53 p.m. ET: FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has been placed on leave after he was charged with driving while intoxicated over the weekend, the agency said Monday.?
The Transportation Department, which oversees the FAA, said ?they didn't learn about the incident until Monday, two days later.?Deputy Administrator Miguel Huerta will serve as acting administrator while officials conditions consider Babbitt's "employment status," the Transportation Department said.
Original post 1:08 p.m. ET: Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, was free on bond Monday after he was charged with driving while intoxicated over the weekend.
Police in Fairfax, Va., a suburb of Washington, said Babbitt, 65, was driving on the wrong side of the road when he was stopped at 10:30 p.m. ET Saturday. Babbitt, who was alone in the vehicle, was found to be intoxicated, police said, and was held at a detention center, where he was charged and released on a personal recognizance bond.
Police said that Babbitt wasn't involved in an accident and that he?cooperated with police. The FAA didn't immediately return a call and and an e-mail message seeking comment.
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