{"id":268765,"date":"2026-04-27T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:27:08","slug":"dallas-police-squad-cars-struck-by-suspected-drunk-drivers-in-two-weekend-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268765\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police squad cars struck by suspected drunk drivers in two weekend crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Two people were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated in separate incidents after crashing into Dallas Police Department squad cars late Saturday and early Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p> Separate DWI incidents result in squad car collisions   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/randyjones.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Randy Jones, 46 (Source: Dallas County Jail) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The first collision occurred around 11:05 p.m. Saturday in the 3900 block of Frankford Road. According to a preliminary investigation, 46-year-old Randy Jones struck a squad car while officers were responding to an assist call. One officer was transported to a local hospital for precautionary reasons.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Jones was arrested and booked into the Dallas County Jail on a charge of driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brooke-arnold.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Brooke Arnold, 27 (Source: Dallas County Jail) <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The second incident took place about two hours later, around 1:10 a.m. Sunday, in the 2900 block of Reagan Street. Police said 27-year-old Brooke Arnold hit a marked squad car at the location. No officers were injured in the second crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Arnold was taken into custody and also charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Both investigations remain ongoing, according to Dallas Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Two people were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated in separate incidents after crashing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-268765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268765","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=268765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}