Times staff Posted: Feb 28, 2011 12:50 PM BROOKSVILLE — Eric Perez predicted to deputies that he would have a hard time passing a sobriety test early Saturday. Deputies say he was right. A deputy stopped Perez, 36, as he was driving a golf cart in the wrong direction along State Road 50 shortly after…Read More
Debra Oberlin (Credit: Alachua County Sheriff’s Office) (CBS) – Here’s one MADD unfortunate case of do as I say, not as I do. PICTURES: Most Outrageous Mug Shots Debra Oberlin, a former president of a defunct chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, was arrested recently by the Gainesville, Fla. police – for drunk driving,…Read More
FROM SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A west suburban woman had a blood alcohol level of .188 when she crashed a Jeep into a median early Friday, sending the vehicle flying over freight tracks and onto the CTA Blue Line tracks in west suburban Oak Park. Jessica Garcia, 21, of the 1300 block of South 59th Avenue…Read More
Gov. Susana Martinez witnessed another one of her legislative priorities fail Saturday in committee. House Bill 49, designed to prosecute individuals arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, would have allocated more funding for law enforcement officials to draw blood samples from those suspected of being…Read More
Los Angeles – A suspected drunken driver in a Ford Explorer crashed the sport utility vehicle into a sober-living house in South Los Angeles early today. The driver and a passenger were temporarily trapped in the wreckage at 8005 S. Figueroa St. after the roughly 12:55 a.m. accident, according to police and firefighters. The two…Read More
Sobriety and driver’s license checkpoints around Oxnard netted one arrest Saturday night and 37 drivers were cited for different driver’s license violations. The Oxnard Police Department held checkpoints on the southbound lanes of Rose Avenue at Ives Avenue and on the southbound lanes of Victoria Avenue at Gonzales Road from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m….Read More
MILFORD, Pa. Tracy Loendorf, 29, of New Windsor, N.Y., was sentenced Thursday in Pike County Court for DUI. She was sentenced to 60 days to 6 months, consecutively, with a Lackawanna County sentence for a total of 18 months; and 60 days to 54 months at a state correctional facility. She must also pay a…Read More
Jack Mizer’s 20-year prison sentence for drunken driving might seem harsh at first blush. There are, after all, plenty of cases in which such egregious conduct drew lighter sentences. In Gilbert, for example, a young man who was drunk when he killed a police officer in 2006 received less than half that time in prison….Read More
A woman was arrested on Saturday in connection with a November crash that killed a woman in Brevard County and sent two children to the hospital with serious injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Troopers arrested 24-year-old Katrina Johnson, of Cocoa, on Saturday. She faces charges of DUI manslaughter, DUI with serious bodily injury…Read More
By Carl Hessler Jr., chessler@pottsmerc.com NORRISTOWN A somber appearing Ambler man admitted that he was speeding and driving under the influence of illegal drugs when he struck and killed a 13-year-old Penllyn boy who was riding a scooter in Lower Gwynedd. Andrew Richard Meyers, 26, of North Main Street, pleaded guilty Friday in Montgomery County…Read More
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