{"id":400683,"date":"2026-08-07T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:15","slug":"central-texas-man-was-driving-drunk-with-11-year-old-daughter-in-his-vehicle-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400683\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas man was driving drunk with 11-year-old daughter in his vehicle: affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A Central Texas man was charged after police say he drove while intoxicated with his 11-year-old daughter in the vehicle, and later pulled a knife during a fight at Cameron Park, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Christopher Alaman was booked into the McLennan County Jail on abandoning or endangering a child charges. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Christopher Alaman\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/R7SMODQ6YJHC7LCA264HBCHXRI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Christopher Alaman(McLennan County Jail Records)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waco police detectives began investigating after receiving a report that Alaman\u2019s daughter was injured during a June 29 incident at Cameron Park, where Alaman was initially arrested for public intoxication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victim told investigators she was afraid while Alaman was driving because he was drinking alcohol and swerving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said that at the park, Alaman began fighting with people and pulled a knife on them, the affidavit states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alaman admitted to police that he drank a beer while driving to Waco, but denied being intoxicated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He claimed he was jumped by a group at the park and pulled a knife in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Witnesses interviewed by police said Alaman behaved antagonistically toward multiple groups in the park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They reported that Alaman used racial slurs, which led to the physical fight and then drew a knife on the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alaman is currently out on bond. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A Central Texas man was charged after police say he drove while intoxicated with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140605,140602,140604,77144,140603,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-400683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abandoning-or-endangering-a-child","tag-cameron-park","tag-christopher-alaman","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-mclennan-county-jail","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400683","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=400683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}