{"id":6255,"date":"2019-11-21T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=6255"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:11:45","slug":"sam-hunt-taken-off-the-backroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/middays\/2019\/11\/sam-hunt-taken-off-the-backroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Taken Off The Backroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/05\/08\/dierks-bentley-darius-rucker-win-acm-awards\/591198002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country singer Sam Hunt<\/a>\u00a0was arrested in East Nashville on Thursday morning on DUI charges.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Hunt, 34, was charged with DUI and open container violation after his arrest in Davidson County, according to online court records. He was granted $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hunt, an arrest warrant says, was allegedly driving the wrong way on Ellington Parkway in the early morning hours Thursday before exiting at Cleveland Street towards Gallatin Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">When Metro Nashville police got behind the vehicle, the driver had difficulty staying in the proper lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hunt allegedly had bloodshot, watery eyes and smelled of alcohol, the warrant said. Two empty beers were in the vehicle next to the driver, MNPD reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The driver had trouble finding his ID to show officers, and attempted to give both a credit card and a passport instead of his driver&#8217;s license \u2014 while that card sat on his lap, according to the warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hunt was the only person in the vehicle at the time of the stop. He allegedly admitted to consuming alcohol &#8220;recently,&#8221; the warrant said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Sobriety tests were conducted in the field, which were captured on an MNPD dash cam, the warrant said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hunt allegedly tested with a blood alcohol level of 0.173, well over the legal limit of 0.08.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in court in January.<\/p>\n<p>~ chris lukas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country singer Sam Hunt\u00a0was arrested in East Nashville on Thursday morning on DUI charges.","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","category-middays"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 23:12:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/middays\/2019\/11\/sam-hunt-taken-off-the-backroad\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}