{"id":127611,"date":"2026-01-18T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:33:11","slug":"fort-worth-city-council-member-charged-with-dwi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127611\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth City Council member charged with DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth City Council member has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He&#8217;s charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The circumstances around his arrest are not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A sitting councilmember for the City of Fort Worth has been arrested and accused of driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Crain arrested<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael D. Crain, who represents Fort Worth District 3, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail Saturday on his DWI charge, according to the jail&#8217;s booking information.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Records show Crain was arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of publishing, he was still being held on a $750 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city released the following statement to FOX 4 upon request:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The City is aware of the arrest by the Texas Department of Public Safety. This is a legal matter; we will not comment further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The circumstances surrounding Crain&#8217;s arrest have not been commented on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details were limited at the time of publishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article comes from the Tarrant County Jail website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Fort Worth City Council member has been arrested. He&#8217;s charged with driving while intoxicated. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,54903,5694,6877],"class_list":{"0":"post-127611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-michael-crain","12":"tag-michael-d-crain","13":"tag-texas-department-of-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}