{"id":591135,"date":"2026-04-07T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:44:09","slug":"former-australian-test-cricketer-david-warner-facing-drink-driving-charges-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591135\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian Test cricketer David Warner facing drink driving charges in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Former Australian Test cricketer David Warner has been charged with mid-range drink driving in Sydney&#8217;s east over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were conducting random breath testing on Malabar Road in Maroubra about 5:30pm on Sunday when a van allegedly stopped short of the site and parked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers approached the vehicle and subjected the 39-year-old driver \u2014 since confirmed to be Warner \u2014 to roadside testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The test returned a positive result, and Warner was arrested and taken to Maroubra Police Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A second test allegedly returned a reading of 0.104.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Warner has been charged with middle-range drink driving and is due to appear in court in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Warner retired from international cricket in 2024 and has continued to play in the Big Bash League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian Test cricketer David Warner has been charged with mid-range drink driving in Sydney&#8217;s east over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,18754,288687,288688,288686,198757,5847,85,161246,182874],"class_list":{"0":"post-591135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-david-warner","11":"tag-david-warner-charged","12":"tag-david-warner-cricket","13":"tag-david-warner-drink-driving","14":"tag-nsw-court","15":"tag-nsw-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sydney-court","18":"tag-sydney-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591135","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=591135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}