{"id":1527914,"date":"2026-07-25T07:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527914"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:28:06","slug":"tony-romo-arrested-for-allegedly-driving-while-intoxicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527914","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2.webp 1920w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2-200x133.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2-1017x678.webp 1017w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Helfand-TonyRomo-2-1536x1024.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>(NEXSTAR) \u2013 Former Dallas Cowboys star Tony Romo was arrested Thursday night in Milwaukee for allegedly driving while intoxicated, according to an arrest report from the Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The former quarterback \u201cperformed poorly\u201d during a field sobriety test and was taken into custody, the arresting officer wrote. Officers stopped Romo around 6 p.m. while he was driving south on Interstate 43, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Romo was booked under a first-offense charge of OWI and released. Romo, who played with the Dallas Cowboys from 2004 to 2016, grew up in Burlington, Wisconsin, where he played quarterback for his high school team.<\/p>\n<p>He is due in court Sept. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Dallas Cowboys star Tony Romo was arrested Thursday night in Milwaukee for allegedly driving while intoxicated, according to an arrest report from the Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1527916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-27 07:25:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527917,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527914\/revisions\/1527917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}