{"id":521316,"date":"2026-03-05T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:52:10","slug":"britney-spears-arrested-in-california-on-dui-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521316\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears arrested in California on DUI suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Britney Spears was arrested late Wednesday in California on suspicion of driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy-winning singer, 44, was stopped by officers from the California Highway Patrol in Ventura County at about 9:30 p.m., according to a report confirmed by Variety.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.BJlT311mDYZe\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.BJlT311mDYZe\"><\/p>\n<p>1 View gallery <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.BJlT311mDYZe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BJoRsP64yx_0_136_1993_1122_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05d8\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e1\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05e1\" title=\"Britney Spears  (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.BJlT311mDYZe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BJoRsP64yx_0_136_1993_1122_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05d8\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e1\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05e1\" title=\"Britney Spears  (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Britney Spears <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Spears was taken into custody and booked early Thursday morning, around 3 a.m., according to inmate records from the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reviewed by USA TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>The records show she was released several hours later, shortly after 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Spears is scheduled to appear in court on May 4. Officials did not immediately release additional details about the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop star Britney Spears was arrested late Wednesday in California on suspicion of driving under the influence. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-521316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}