Alex Jones Charged With DWI In Texas

TEXAS — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was charged with driving while intoxicated in Texas following a motor vehicle stop by Travis County Sheriff's Office deputies.

Deputies went to Jones' residence after a report of a domestic dispute and saw him in the area driving 5 mph over the speed limit, according to a police report obtained by the New York Post. Jones said he and his wife got into an argument over dinner at a Japanese restaurant, according to the report.

Jones is being sued by several families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. The lawsuit alleges that Jones insisted the shooting was a "false flag" operation and parents were "crisis actors." Several family members have been subject to death threats and other harassment after the 2012 shooting which left 20 children and six educators dead.

Jones’ wife told dispatchers they engaged in a physical and verbal fight earlier in the day, according to the report.

Jones failed a field sobriety test and his blood-alcohol level was measured at .076 and .079, police said. Both results are under the legal limit of .08 in Texas, but state law allows police to charge drivers if they exhibit impairment.

Jones took to his radio show to give his side of the incident.

"I want to not just get ahead of something, but I actually enjoy talking about this because it was quite the experience to see what’s going on in this country and to go through it myself," Jones said on his show.

Jones said he and his wife shared a small bottle of sake over dinner about two hours before he was pulled over and that he had about half the bottle. He said he couldn’t balance on one leg for 10 seconds while performing the field sobriety test and claimed the deputy who pulled him over couldn’t do so either.

He claimed he was caught in a countywide dragnet because of a low number of arrests.