{"id":1007277,"date":"2026-08-17T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:29:23","slug":"dps-2-arrested-for-dui-after-seat-swap-fails-to-fool-troopers-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007277\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS: 2 arrested for DUI after seat swap fails to fool troopers in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 An alleged seat swap didn\u2019t save two people from getting arrested for DUI during a traffic stop in Phoenix last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers were on an enforcement patrol Thursday when they pulled over a vehicle for \u201cmultiple civil traffic violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">That\u2019s when things got interesting: as the trooper approached, the driver and a passenger reportedly switched seats \u2014 an apparent last-ditch effort to dodge a DUI arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plan didn\u2019t work, according to DPS. Troopers said both people showed signs of impairment and were checked out at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the end, the original driver and the passenger-turned-driver were both arrested and booked for DUI. DPS has not publicly identified either person or said where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 An alleged seat swap didn\u2019t save two people from getting arrested for DUI during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1007278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,49853,1587,50530,7182,403261,1589,7183,403260,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1007277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-department-of-public-safety","tag-az","tag-azdps","tag-azfamily","tag-dui-arrest-in-phoenix","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-seat-swap","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117112980509821630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}