{"id":93149,"date":"2026-01-08T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93149\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:05:06","slug":"nypd-off-duty-officer-charged-with-drunk-driving-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93149\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD: Off-duty officer charged with drunk driving on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Published: Jan. 07, 2026, 7:17 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KWTRLECY4VDXXI7V2LWD2LBVMA\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 An NYPD officer was arrested early Wednesday morning on Staten Island and charged with driving while intoxicated, according to a statement from the NYPD\u2019s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XBYQCFXO5NB4DN2PMYWCP4KQJM\">Artan Kurtovic, 24, of Travis, was off duty at the time of the arrest. The officer was charged at around 7:45 a.m. in the 121st Precinct, which encompasses the West Shore and part of the North Shore, an NYPD spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JRA3HMM5KNCALNFJVYEZ4ZNXAQ\">The NYPD did not immediately say where the traffic stop occurred and was unable to provide any further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyPublished: Jan. 07, 2026, 7:17 p.m. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 An NYPD officer was arrested early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-93149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93149","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=93149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}