Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been charged with a misdemeanor DUI in Scottsdale months after police pulled him over for alleged speeding early one March morning.
Scottsdale prosecutors have now filed a criminal complaint against the 30-year-old Phoenix Suns forward for a misdemeanor driving-under-the-influence charge tied to that March arrest, Daily Mail reported.
The filing lands just as the Suns finished media day and turned toward the 2026-27 NBA season, a reminder that a high-profile athlete still answers to the same traffic laws as everyone else on an Arizona road.
On March 6, around 1 a.m., officers pulled Brooks over in Scottsdale for traffic violations. Police claimed he was going 85 mph in a 45 mph zone and placed him under arrest.
Fox News reported the stop at 1:33 a.m. and said Brooks was taken to the Scottsdale City jail, booked on suspicion of DUI, and released about two hours later.
A Scottsdale police spokesperson said he was released after booking around 3:30 a.m. Reporting on the stop described Brooks as respectful and cooperative with officers that night.
No blood-alcohol figure, field-sobriety detail, or full police report language has been laid out in the available accounts. No attorney is listed yet for the DUI case.
"We are aware of the situation involving Dillon Brooks and are gathering more information. We have no further comment at this time."
That was the Phoenix Suns’ full public statement after the arrest became known.
The criminal complaint follows the March stop by months and arrives days after the club’s media day ahead of the new season. The Suns open the regular season on October 21 in Portland against the Trail Blazers and host Golden State at home on October 24.
Last spring the team barely reached the playoffs as the West’s seventh seed and was swept in the first round by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Brooks, a Toronto-area native and Canadian known as one of the league’s tougher perimeter defenders, put up a career-high 20.2 points a game in the prior season referenced in coverage and shot 84.2 percent from the line.
He has long leaned into a villain role on the floor and has drawn headlines for feuds with stars such as LeBron James and Draymond Green. He shares the Klutch Sports agency with both. Comment was sought from the agency; none is recorded in the charging coverage.
Eight months before the March arrest, Brooks had filed for a new restraining order against the mother of his two children. That earlier family-court step is separate from the DUI complaint, but it adds to a stretch of off-court legal noise around a player the Suns need locked in for a long season.
Misdemeanor DUI is still a criminal charge. Prosecutors in Scottsdale chose to put it on paper well after the handcuffs came off. Stars get booked and released like other drivers; the difference is that the paperwork follows them into training camp and opening night.
Fans pay for tickets. Taxpayers fund the courts and the cops who work 1 a.m. shifts. A forward who averages twenty a night does not get a free pass when an officer clocks 85 in a 45.
The season starts soon enough. The complaint is already on the docket.
