{"id":298051,"date":"2026-07-16T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:46:18","slug":"mike-lawler-reveals-he-was-arrested-for-dwi-in-nyc-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298051\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lawler reveals he was arrested for DWI in NYC in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) <\/a>came clean and revealed he had been arrested in 2012 on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Hudson Valley politician, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in the country<\/a>, disclosed that he\u2019d been pulled over and charged with DWI after drinking on St. Patrick\u2019s Day in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was deeply disappointed in myself, but moreover disappointed that I let my dad down,\u201d Lawler told News 12 in an interview Wednesday, noting that his father was a recovering alcoholic battling cancer at the time.<\/p>\n

\"Rep.Rep. Mike Lawler came clean that he was pulled over and arrested on a drunk driving charge on St. Patrick\u2019s Day in New York City in 2012. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The congressman had previously revealed the charge<\/a> to a group of students at Nanuet High School during a presentation on distracted driving last month.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was not my proudest moment. It was something I was deeply embarrassed about,\u201d he told the students.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, I could\u2019ve killed myself or someone else. I was grateful that I was pulled over and nobody was hurt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lawler was arrested along the Palisades Parkway on March 17, 2012, according to The Journal News at the time.<\/p>\n

He was charged with driving while intoxicated, but later pleaded to the lower charge of driving while ability impaired, a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

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Lawler is one of a handful of GOP-held toss up seats being targeted by Democrats<\/a> as they attempt to retake the House in this November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The former GOP Assemblyman defeated lefty former Rep. Mondaire Jones in 2024 despite Vice President Kamala Harris winning the district.<\/p>\n

His opponent in the November election is Democrat Cait Conley, a West Point grad and former intelligence official who is positioning herself as a centrist candidate.<\/p>\n

Members of Congress serve two-year terms at a salary of $174,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) came clean and revealed he had been arrested in 2012 on a drunk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,858,44507,57,46937,883,9,24,55,54,56,87,2134,7316,58],"class_list":["post-298051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrests","tag-congress","tag-dwi","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-mike-lawler","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}