{"id":7678,"date":"2013-11-09T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-wr-simpson-arrested-on-drunk-driving-charge\/"},"modified":"2013-11-09T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:05:05","slug":"vikings-wr-simpson-arrested-on-drunk-driving-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-wr-simpson-arrested-on-drunk-driving-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings WR Simpson arrested on drunk driving charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jerome Simpson was arrested Saturday morning on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n<p>Hennepin County jail records show Simpson being booked at 5:39 a.m. CT on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings said they were aware of the incident and issued a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are continuing to gather information and will have further comment at the appropriate time,&#8221; the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson has had off-field issues in the past. He was suspended for the first three games of the 2012 season after a drug conviction earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2012, a Kentucky judge sentenced Simpson to 15 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. The previous September, when Simpson played for Cincinnati, police confiscated a package containing 2 1\/2 pounds of marijuana that was being shipped from California to Simpson&#8217;s Kentucky home.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson is the Vikings&#8217; second-leading receiver this season with 33 catches and leads the club with 491 receiving yards in nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jerome Simpson was arrested Saturday morning on a drunk driving charge. Hennepin County jail records show Simpson being booked at 5:39 a.m. CT on Saturday morning. The Vikings said they were aware of the incident and issued a brief statement. &#8220;We are continuing to gather information and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7685,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/7685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}