Vikings great Adrian Peterson arrested on DWI charge after appearing at team’s NFL Draft celebration

Former Minnesota Vikings prima moving backmost Adrian Peterson was arrested successful Minnesota aboriginal Friday greeting connected a DWI charge, hours aft helium had appeared arsenic a peculiar impermanent for the team’s draught enactment celebrations astatine U.S. Bank Stadium. 

Peterson, 40, was arrested by the Minnesota State Highway Patrol successful the early-morning hours connected Friday and is facing a fourth-degree misdemeanor complaint of driving portion impaired, according to online records from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. 

Former Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson salutes the assemblage successful the 3rd 4th of a crippled against the Chicago Bears astatine U.S. Bank Stadium connected Nov. 27, 2023. (Brad Rempel-USA Today Sports)

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TMZ Sports reported that the one-time league MVP was pulled implicit astatine astir 3:20 a.m. aft instrumentality enforcement saw him traveling 83 mph successful a 55-mph zone. According to the report, the arresting serviceman suspected that Peterson was driving portion intoxicated. 

According to a report, his humor intoxicant level was .14 – good implicit the ineligible bounds of .08.  

Peterson, 40, was arrested successful Minnesota aboriginal Friday greeting connected a DWI charge. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)

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Peterson, a aboriginal Hall of Famer, was 1 of the Vikings' astir ascendant players successful franchise history. A seven-time All-Pro, Peterson spent 10 seasons with the Vikings wherever helium was named league MVP and Offensive Player of the Year successful the aforesaid season. He led the league successful yards rushing 3 times and rushing touchdowns twice. 

Peterson celebrated the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft astatine the Vikings' stadium connected Thursday night. 

FILE - Minnesota Vikings Adrian Peterson (28) rushes against the Chicago Bears successful the 3rd 4th astatine the Metrodome connected Nov. 29, 2009. (Bruce Kluckhohn USA Today Sports)

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According to online records, Peterson was released 2 hours aft being booked connected a $4,000 bond. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected May 9. 

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