{"id":131198,"date":"2025-09-04T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131198\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:45:06","slug":"ex-viking-everson-griffen-accused-of-driving-130-mph-in-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131198\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Viking Everson Griffen accused of driving 130 mph in Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">In July 2023, he was stopped in Chanhassen and accused of driving 60 mph in a 40 mph zone. His blood-alcohol content was 0.09%. Griffen pleaded guilty to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/plea-deal-allows-former-viking-everson-griffen-to-avoid-drunken-driving-conviction\/600346433\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reduced careless driving charge<\/a> in February 2024 and was placed on a year\u2019s probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">In the months following that allegation, Griffen crashed his car into a fence and gazebo in Mound on Oct. 28, 2023. He was cited for failure to drive with due care, a petty misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">On Dec. 7, 2023, in Shakopee, police stopped Griffen for driving 55 mph in a 30 mph zone. He was convicted of a petty misdemeanor in that case as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Griffen called 911 shortly after 3 a.m. from his Minnetrista home on Nov. 24, 2021, saying someone was with him, and he needed help. He also told the dispatcher he fired one round from a gun, but no one was wounded, police said. They added that no intruder was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The same day, Griffen had posted, then deleted, a video on Instagram saying people were trying to kill him as he held a gun in his hand. He was alone inside the house, with police outside, until he emerged and agreed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/vikings-everson-griffen-police-mike-zimmer-minnetrista-incident-911-standoff\/600120347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taken for treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2023, he was stopped in Chanhassen and accused of driving 60 mph in a 40 mph&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-131198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}