Adrian Peterson admitted to drinking during poker games hours before DWI arrest, police say

That’s what police in Sugar Land, Texas say Adrian Peterson He claimed he downed shots of vodka mix during a poker game early Sunday morning… just hours before he was arrested for DWI.

The officer who took Peterson into custody over the weekend wrote in court documents obtained by TMZ Sportsthat the former NFL running back made the confession while the two were at a Sugar Land gas station around 9:23 a.m.

The officer claimed in the documents that he encountered Peterson while he was asleep behind the wheel of a running black Mercedes SUV that was parked next to some pumps … and he claimed that once he woke the unconscious ex-Minnesota Vikings star, he smelled of booze and had bloodshot, shiny eyes and slurred speech.

The officer claimed that Peterson told him that he had been playing cards in Houston shortly before their meeting… and stated that he had consumed “about 2 to 3 shots of a vodka mix” about “2 or 3 hours ago.”

A witness who was at the poker game and photographed the football legend during one of the hands told us that he saw Peterson ‘drinking like a fish’. An additional witness said Peterson was at the game for hours, going back and forth from the poker game to his car to collect money to place more bets.

At the gas station, Peterson’s arresting officer claimed he said “on a scale of 0, completely sober, to 10, drunk, to the point where he blacked out…Peterson stated he was a 2.”

Peterson then allegedly bombed the field sobriety tests… and once he was cuffed for DWI, the documents state that a gun was discovered in the passenger side glove box of his car.

Peterson was eventually taken to jail and booked on one charge of DWI and one charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon. Police say they are still waiting for the results of his blood test.