Alex Jones Arrested in Texas for Driving While Intoxicated, InfoWars Website Responds

InfoWars founder Alex Jones takes photographs at a hearing to examine foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms before the Intelligence Committee at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

InfoWars host Alex Jones was booked into a Travis County Jail on a charge of driving while intoxicated at around midnight on Tuesday, said the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, but his website said he was “cleared of a DWI.”

Jones, 46, was taken into police custody at around 12:37 a.m., according to a spokesperson for the office, Kristen Dark, reported the Austin American-Statesman. It’s a class B misdemeanor, she said.