{"id":22496,"date":"2025-10-27T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:53:08","slug":"former-vikings-star-adrian-peterson-arrested-for-dwi-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22496\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Vikings star Adrian Peterson arrested for DWI in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SUGAR LAND, Texas. (KTTC) \u2013 Former Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was arrested on Sunday for suspicion of drunk driving in Texas, according to FOX 9 in Minneapolis. Peterson was also arrested for \u201cunlawfully possessing a weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the second DWI arrest for the former Viking this year, as Peterson was arrested in April for drunk driving after attending a Vikings NFL draft party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FOX 9 added that the arrest occurred around 10 a.m. on Sunday in Sugar Land, Texas, and that Peterson has not been formally charged to this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUGAR LAND, Texas. (KTTC) \u2013 Former Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was arrested on Sunday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16362,2911,294,13031,13531,8515,16364,11728,16363,16361,27,29,28,16356],"class_list":{"0":"post-22496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-adrian","9":"tag-arrested","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-driving","12":"tag-dui","13":"tag-dwi","14":"tag-intoxicated","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-peterson","17":"tag-sugar-land","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-headlines","20":"tag-texas-news","21":"tag-vikings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22496","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=22496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}