{"id":611994,"date":"2026-05-30T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:15:10","slug":"raheem-sterling-former-england-international-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drug-driving-sky-news-understands-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611994\/","title":{"rendered":"Raheem Sterling: Former England international arrested on suspicion of drug driving, Sky News understands | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former England international Raheem Sterling has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old, who joined Dutch club Feyenoord in February, is alleged to have crashed his Lamborghini while on the M3 on Thursday and was stopped by police at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Hampshire Police said in a statement: &#8220;Just before 9am on Thursday, we received reports that a Lamborghini was in collision with barriers on the M3 southbound, close to the Minley Interchange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No other vehicles were involved, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver, a 31-year-old man, from Berkshire, has been arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle whilst unfit through drugs, driving dangerously, possession of a Class C drug and failing to provide a specimen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has been bailed while our enquiries continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Sterling emphasised that his arrest was &#8220;under suspicion&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England international Raheem Sterling has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving, according to Sky News. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-611994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}