{"id":85388,"date":"2025-12-16T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:45:10","slug":"broward-firefighter-faces-dui-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85388\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward firefighter faces DUI charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PM3TAAFGCRDYRNJ66UNWAUDOIY.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Brian Vengoechea (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A first responder with Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue is the subject of an \u201copen and active internal affairs investigation\u201d following an early-December DUI arrest, officials confirmed to Local 10 News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies arrested Capt. Brian Vengoechea on Dec. 7 after a traffic stop in the 1800 block of North Federal Highway in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A BSO arrest report states that just after 10 p.m., a deputy saw Vengoechea, 41, of Deerfield Beach, driving erratically in a Ford F-350 beginning near Northeast 10th Street, at one point driving over a right lane divider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said after they pulled them over, they noticed a \u201cstrong odor\u201d of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Vengoechea, having \u201cdifficulty completing his sentences,\u201d told the deputy that he was \u201chaving problems with his wife and was just trying to get home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that Vengoechea gave the deputy a BSO identification number and later told the deputy he worked for BSO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said he refused field sobriety and breathalyzer tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies arrested him on charges and citations of first-offense DUI, refusal to submit to DUI testing, failure to use due care and disobeying or avoiding a traffic device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A BSO spokesperson said Vengoechea \u201cis on restrictive administrative assignment\u201d following his arrest and amid the internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandBrian Vengoechea (BSO) POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A first responder with Broward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-85388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85388","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=85388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}