{"id":850452,"date":"2026-10-04T03:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/850452\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:59:59","slug":"phoenixs-dillon-brooks-officially-charged-with-dui-tied-to-march-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/850452\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix&#8217;s Dillon Brooks officially charged with DUI tied to March incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been charged with driving under the influence related to his arrest in March by police in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records show that Brooks has a court date on Oct. 28 for the the Class 1 misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis charge stems from the incident last March,\u201d Suns senior vice president of communications Stacey Mitch said in a statement. \u201cWe have addressed the matter with Dillon and have no further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/suns-dillon-brooks-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-in-scottsdale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested during a traffic stop<\/a> on March 6 at roughly 1 a.m. and after an investigation, he was taken to jail. He was released following the booking process around 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was out with a fractured left hand at the time. He averaged a career-high 20.2 points per game last season and signed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/dillon-brooks-extends-with-phoenix-for-three-years-73-million\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a $73 million, three-year extension<\/a> during the offseason that will keep him with the team through 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is also facing separate misdemeanor reckless driving and speeding charges related to an arrest in January. The court date for that case is Nov. 9.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN first reported the developments in the cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been charged with driving under the influence related to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":["post-850452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117380646371367622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}