November 20, 2023 - Missing context. O’Rourke, a Democrat running for Texas governor, was charged with a misdemeanor burglary charge in 1995 when he tried to jump a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso, according to court records.

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August 12, 2025 - “Robert Francis flagrantly and knowingly violated the court order I secured that prevents him from raising funds and distributing any more Beto Bribes. He’s about to find out that running your mouth and ignoring the rule of law has consequences in Texas. It’s time to lock him up.” · O’Rourke, whose criminal past includes drunk driving, was sued by Attorney General Paxton last Friday for operating a misleading and fraudulent scheme to raise personal funds for rogue runaway lawmakers breaking quorum while advertising it as political fundraising.

3 days ago - O'Rourke was arrested for driving while intoxicated on September 27, 1998, at 3:00 a.m. on Interstate 10 in Anthony, Texas. The charges were dismissed in October 1999 after he completed a court-approved DWI program.

September 24, 2019 - Diaz, Kevin. “Police reports detail Beto O’Rourke’s 1998 DWI arrest.” Houston Chronicle.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke of Texas has said that in younger days he was twice arrested in his hometown of El Paso--once, he says, for leaping a campus fence and the other time for driving while intoxicated.

August 12, 2025 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking the arrest of Beto O'Rourke for allegedly violating a restraining order and funding fleeing lawmakers during the state's redistricting battle.

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May 27, 2025 - Beto O'Rourke was in a band called the El Paso Pussycats and was arrested at least twice in the 1990s.

February 1, 2026 - This is the electoral history of Beto O'Rourke, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He previously served in the El Paso City Council from 2005 to 2011. O'Rourke came to national prominence during his 2018 United States Senate campaign in Texas, where he narrowly lost to incumbent Republican Ted Cruz. He later sought the 2020 Democratic nomination for President, but ended his campaign before any votes were cast. In 2019, O'Rourke was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

September 18, 2019 - O’Rourke then attempted to drive away, but the witness stopped him, according to the report. Law enforcement arrived and arrested O’Rourke, recording that he scored a 0.136 and 0.134 on a breathalyzer test, above a blood-alcohol level of 0.10, the state legal limit at the time.

Police documents from a decades-old drunken-driving arrest of Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke provide a more completely picture of an incident that the congressman has long acknowledged

September 23, 2019 - Smith allegedly responded, in an apparent reference to Democratic presidential candidate and El Paso native, Beto O'Rourke. "I don't know enough people that would be relevant enough to cause a change if they died." In an interview before his arrest, Smith told investigators he knows how to ...

August 12, 2025 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a motion for contempt against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) Tuesday, accusing him of violating a temporary restraining order blocking him from fundraising to help cover the cost of Democrats’ quorum break.

November 20, 2023 - In 1995, O’Rourke was arrested for jumping a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso and was charged with misdemeanor burglary charges, which were later dropped. In 1998, he was arrested in El Paso for driving while intoxicated.

BILL 22. H.R.5619 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Emergency Port of Entry Personnel and Infrastructure Funding Act of 2018 Sponsor: O'Rourke, Beto [Rep.-D-TX-16] (Introduced 04/25/2018) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Homeland Security; Ways and Means; Appropriations Latest Action: House - 05/02/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security. (All Actions) Tracker: ... Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-04-25 [displayText] => Introduced in House [externalActionCode] => 1000 [description] => Introduced [chamberOfAction] => House ) 22. H.R.5619 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Emergency Port of Entry Personnel and Infrastructure Funding Act of 2018 Sponsor: O'Rourke, Beto [Rep.-D-TX-16] (Introduced 04/25/2018) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Homeland Security; Ways and Means; Appropriations Latest Action: House - 05/02/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

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September 4, 2018 - O'Rourke has indeed been arrested for burglary and drunk driving, a history which he has discussed several times over the course of his political career, as his spokesperson told us: "While charges were dismissed, this is something that Beto ...