{"id":393569,"date":"2026-07-31T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:40:08","slug":"fort-worth-police-officer-arrested-on-drunk-driving-charge-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393569\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police officer arrested on drunk driving charge, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fort Worth Star-Telegram;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_fort_worth_star_telegram_mcclatchy_844.png\"\/><\/a>Thu, July 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>A Fort Worth police officer is under investigation after being arrested in Springtown on Friday, July 24, on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n<p>Officer K. Blasingame will remain on restricted duty during the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations, Fort Worth police confirmed in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Blasingame joined the department in 2016 and was most recently assigned to the Patrol Bureau, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the arrest and the driving while intoxicated charge were not immediately available. The Star-Telegram has contacted Springtown police for further information.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p>\n        \u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, July 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM UTC A Fort Worth police officer is under investigation after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-393569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393569","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=393569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}