`TODAY' FIGURE FACES DRUG CHARGE

Andy Pargh, the NBC ``Today Show'' correspondent known as the ``Gadget
Guru,'' was arrested on a cocaine trafficking charge in Miami, jail records
showed Sunday.

Pargh, 45, was booked in the Miami-Dade County jail Saturday on the charge
and was released after posting $50,000 bond, a jail official said.

Television station WTVJ, an NBC affiliate in Miami, said Pargh was arrested
near his home in the Sunny Isles neighborhood after allegedly buying 250
grams of cocaine from an undercover policeman. Police who made the arrest
could not be reached for comment.

Pargh reports on new products on the ``Today Show'' and also writes a
technology column that appears in USA Today.