{"id":44859,"date":"2025-11-13T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44859\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:17:09","slug":"middletown-superintendent-arrested-on-dui-charge-in-florida-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44859\/","title":{"rendered":"Middletown superintendent arrested on DUI charge in Florida \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown Superintendent Alberto V\u00e1zquez Matos was arrested in Florida and charged with driving under the influence, according to police records.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest happened in July in Brandon, Florida, just east of Tampa. Police paperwork shows V\u00e1zquez Matos was charged with DUI after refusing to take a blood-alcohol test.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also accused of holding driver\u2019s licenses in both Connecticut and Florida, which is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Middletown Board of Education is holding a special meeting Thursday to discuss the situation and determine whether any action will be taken regarding V\u00e1zquez Matos\u2019 employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middletown Superintendent Alberto V\u00e1zquez Matos was arrested in Florida and charged with driving under the influence, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,8209],"class_list":["post-44859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-middletown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}