ARRESTED:

01/05/1998 at 12:00 AM EST

Andy Pargh, 45, the NBC "Today" show correspondent known as the "Gadget Guru," on a cocaine trafficking charge in Miami. Pargh was booked in the Miami-Dade County jail Saturday and released after posting $50,000 bond, a jail official said . . . Jason Priestley, on suspicion of drunken driving, after he crashed his new Porsche into a utility pole early Friday in the Hollywood Hills. Upon his release (on $50,000 bond) several hours later, he denied he had been drinking. "I think they do that to everybody," he told a local TV station, "especially if you're a celebrity in this town."