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Title: Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Arrested on DWI Charge
Source:
Daily Beast
URL Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/consp ... x-jones-arrested-on-dwi-charge
Published: Mar 10, 2020
Author: Will Sommer
Post Date: 2020-03-10 17:19:58 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 935
Comments: 5
Prominent right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested early Tuesday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated, according to law enforcement. Jones, who as host of the Austin-based InfoWars conspiracy theory outlet has become a prominent force on the fringe right, was arrested on a class-B misdemeanor DWI charge, according to a spokeswoman for the Travis County sheriff’s department. Jones was booked into the Travis County Jail in Austin at 12:37 AM, and released on bond at 4:11 AM. Court records about Jones’s arrest weren’t immediately available. InfoWars didn’t respond to a request for comment. An article on the InfoWars website claimed that Jones was “caught up in a Travis Co. DWI dragnet.” In the story, Jones said he had been “drinking a small amount of sake at a Japanese restaurant.” Jones announced his arrest on a Tuesday episode of his show, claiming that he had blown under the legal limit of 0.08 Blood Alcohol Content. Texas law, however, allows for a driver to be charged with a DWI even if they’re under the limit, if they’re considered to be impaired. This isn’t the first time Jones has been linked to alcohol and driving. In a December New York Times story, a former InfoWars staffer described Jones driving while drinking out of a Dixie cup that had the “smell of vodka, like paint thinner” in 2016. As the head of InfoWars, Jones is facing multiple lawsuits from families who lost children in the 2012 Sandy Hook after claiming that the mass shooting was a hoax.
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He claims that he wasn’t even legally drunk.
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#1. To: Willie Green, Alex Trotskyite Jones (#0)
Alex's dreams of a Communist utopia have been shattered, and he's hitting the bottle. Trump was offering his opinion on "Red Flag" laws enforced by the states. "In Davis v. Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office (2019), the Florida First District Court of Appeal rejected a challenge to Florida's red-flag law, holding that the law is constitutional and does not violate the right to due process."
Texas law, however, allows for a driver to be charged with a DWI even if they’re under the limit, if they’re considered to be impaired. It will be up to the court to determine whether Jones was actually impaired to drive.
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#2. To: Hondo68 (#1)
#3. To: Willie Green (#0)
#4. To: misterwhite, Bottle Let Me Down (#2)
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#5. To: Hondo68 (#4)
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