Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III returned to the Clark County Detention Center on Thursday, but he didn’t stay. He was there to be reprocessed after the status of his case changed.

If Ruggs’ appearance at an arraignment hearing on Wednesday morning at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas goes as his attorneys and prosecutors have agreed, the former Alabama standout will be going soon to a detention center for at least a three-year stay.

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One week ago, Ruggs unconditionally waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the 8th Judicial District Court for arraignment. The court was informed that Ruggs would plead guilty at the arraignment to two charges and serve three to 10 years in state prison. The agreement calls for a sentence of 10 years, but he could become parole-eligible after three years.

The dramatic turn of events came two days before what would have been the sixth attempt at the preliminary hearing for Ruggs, when a judge would decide if the state had enough evidence to proceed with prosecution of the five charges against him.

That would have been almost 18 months since Ruggs was charged in a fatal automobile crash.

The State of Nevada has contended Ruggs was at fault in a deadly accident that occurred in Las Vegas at 3:39 a.m. Nov. 2, 2021. That’s when a Corvette driven by Ruggs struck a Toyota RAV4 driven by Tina Tintor, a 23-year-old Las Vegas resident. Tintor and her dog were killed in the wreck.

Ruggs was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled or prohibited substance resulting in death, driving under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled or prohibited substance resulting in death or substantial bodily harm, two counts of reckless driving resulting in death or substantial bodily harm and possession of a gun under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said Ruggs could have been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if convicted of all the charges at a trial.

Under the plea arrangement, Ruggs will admit guilt to one count of DUI resulting in death and one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.

If that happens on Wednesday, then Ruggs’ formal sentencing would follow on another court date.

Judge Jennifer Schwartz will have the last word. If the judge doesn’t accept the compromise between the defense and prosecution, then Ruggs would be able to retract his guilty plea and all original charges would be back in play for his trial.

Ruggs’ arraignment is on the court calendar for 11 a.m. CDT Wednesday.

Law-enforcement authorities say Ruggs’ Corvette was traveling at 156 mph 2.5 seconds before impact and 127 mph at the time of the collision. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department used data from the car’s airbag control module to find those speeds.

The Clark County Office of the Coroner determined Tintor died from “thermal injuries due to a motor-vehicle collision.”

The Coroner’s Office also determined that significant conditions contributing to Tintor’s death “were inhalation of products of combustion, fractures of the nasal bones, right-sided ribs and left forearm, and a left hemothorax.” (A hemothorax is a collection of blood in the space between the chest wall and the lung.)

The Las Vegas police department reported tests on Ruggs at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada within two hours of the accident showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.161 percent. The legal limit in Nevada is 0.08 percent.

After his bail was set at $150,000 on Nov. 3, 2021, Ruggs was released into an electronic-monitoring program. The use of SCRAM technology also is a condition of Ruggs’ bail. SCRAM stands for secure continuous remote alcohol monitoring.

But Ruggs hasn’t been confined to his home and trips to court for the entire period. Ruggs received court permission on March 16, 2022, to train at Phase 1 Sports in Las Vegas from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the court ordered modifications to the electronic-monitoring program to permit the activity. On April 27, 2022, over an objection from the District Attorney’s Office, the court issued a release order from electronic monitoring for Ruggs in response to a defense motion seeking permission for him to travel to California for medical treatment, according to court records. The court records show Ruggs was removed from the electronic-monitoring program for one month on May 2.

The original date for the preliminary hearing in Ruggs’ case had been Dec. 16, 2021, and it had been rescheduled to March 10, May 19 and Sept. 7 in 2022 and Feb. 1 and May 4 in 2023.

The delays were caused by the wait for a 47-page police report, a defense request for more time to inspect the evidence, a dispute over judges and court assignment and a challenge to the legality of the blood draw that yielded incriminating evidence after Ruggs declined to submit to a field sobriety test.

A prep star at Lee High School in Montgomery, Ruggs caught 40 passes for 746 yards and seven touchdowns in 2019 for Alabama and had 98 receptions for 1,716 yards and 24 touchdowns in three seasons with the Crimson Tide.

Ruggs joined the Raiders as the 12th selection of the 2020 NFL Draft after he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.27 seconds at the NFL Scouting Combine, the fastest time at that year’s event.

At the time of his arrest, Ruggs had 50 receptions for 921 yards and four touchdowns in 20 games for Las Vegas. The Raiders released Ruggs on the same day the wreck occurred.

Ruggs had signed a four-year contract worth $16.672 million when he was drafted. Las Vegas paid him $11.019 million before his release, according to the sports financial website spotrac.com, with most of that as a $9.685 million signing bonus.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.