{"id":286191,"date":"2025-10-08T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286191\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:43:23","slug":"well-known-san-antonio-attorney-accused-of-drunk-driving-drug-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286191\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-known San Antonio attorney accused of drunk driving, drug possession"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio’s\u00a0“dopest lawyer”<\/a> \u2013 a defense lawyer that’s built a brand around defending folks hit with drug charges \u2013 found himself on the opposite side of the law again over the weekend. Police say he drunkenly drove<\/a> his car around his girlfriend’s neighborhood with some undisclosed amount of a controlled substance on him.<\/p>\n

Daniel <\/a>Mehle<\/a>r, self-described as the “dopest lawyer in town,” was booked into the Bexar County Jail on Saturday, October 4. He was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and a felony drug possession charge. Apparently, he was carrying less than 20 units of a schedule 1-A drug.<\/p>\n

According to the Drug Enforcement Agency<\/a> website, this schedule of drugs could include LSD, cannabis, ecstasy and heroin, among others. It’s a class reserved for drugs that have no “currently accepted medical use” and a high abuse potential.<\/p>\n

The practicing attorney was reported to police, according to a warrant obtained by MySA, because his girlfriend wouldn’t talk to him.<\/p>\n

“We contacted a witness who informed us that the suspect was driving his vehicle around the neighborhood and had been throwing things at the house,” a warrant for Mehler’s blood, inked by officer D. Zimmerman, states. “When we arrived at the location, [Mehler] was standing outside. He claimed that his girlfriend was refusing to see him.”<\/p>\n

The officer says Mehler refused to participate in a field sobriety test but described him as emitting a strong odor of alcohol and speaking with slurred and confused speech. Though the attorney was reportedly cooperative and indifferent during the encounter with officers.<\/p>\n

Mehler claimed he had a speech impediment, which could account for his slurred speech, though officers say the combination of a “very strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath,” his inability to remain steady on his feet and glassy and blood-shot eyes were enough to arrest him and ask a judge to draw his blood.<\/p>\n

Mehler was first stopped by officers at 11:54 p.m. Friday, October 3. But it’d be 12:51 p.m. the next day before he was booked into county jail after his blood was taken at 2:07 a.m. Saturday morning. The lawyer made bail and was released from his cell by 3:45 a.m. the following Sunday.<\/p>\n

This isn’t Mehler’s first run-in with the law. He was arrested and charged with sexual assault,<\/a> family violence and violating a protective order in July of last year. However, all the charges were dismissed,<\/a> citing insufficient evidence, by March of 2025.<\/p>\n

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