A Texas judge has given Patrick Mahomes Sr. permission to leave the state for select games in the 2026 season, allowing him to travel to Kansas City while turning down requests tied to road trips in Las Vegas and Cincinnati.
The ruling comes after a rocky stretch in Mahomes Sr.’s felony DWI case. In August 2024, he pleaded guilty to a felony Driving While Intoxicated charge tied to what was described as his third or more DWI arrest in Tyler, Texas.
That plea let him avoid a trial and a possible ten-year prison sentence. Under the original agreement, he received five years of probation, along with intense supervision, 160 hours of community service, a SCRAM alcohol monitoring ankle device and an outpatient substance abuse treatment program.
That probation nearly took a harder turn at the start of the year. On January 1, 2026, the ankle monitor recorded a high alcohol reading, with a transdermal alcohol concentration level of 0.045% during the New Year’s Day alert.
The Smith County District Attorney’s office then moved to revoke his five-year felony DWI probation. Mahomes Sr. was arrested and booked into a Texas jail on February 3 over the alleged violation.
His defense pushed back hard on the monitoring data. The attorney challenged the accuracy of the automated ankle-bracelet reading in court, and later testing undercut the initial alert.
Urine tests on January 5 and January 9 were both negative for alcohol, and Mahomes Sr. also passed a polygraph test and a negative hair follicle alcohol screening. With the hair test contradicting the sensor alert, the state backed away from its revocation request.
The judge ultimately chose not to send him to state prison, instead adding two years to his probation.
Mahomes Sr. then asked for a limited travel allowance so he could attend seven specific games. The court modified his probation terms to permit out-of-state travel for the 2026 season, but only under tight conditions. He can attend games in Kansas City, but his requests for Las Vegas and Cincinnati were denied.
The travel permission comes with strict oversight. Mahomes Sr. must alert his supervising officer before every trip out of Texas, and he has to submit to mandatory urinalysis drug and alcohol tests before and after each trip. The court said his completion of community service and outpatient rehabilitation justified the exception.
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