Archive for January, 2007

Woman Arrested For Felony

Woman Arrested For Felony DUI After Bus Crash (CBS 13 Sacramento)A Ceres woman was arrested Monday on felony DUI charges after swerving in front of a school bus, causing it to collide with an SUV and strike a nearby home. More Local News Get CBS13 Video […]

Police keep quiet on

Police keep quiet on DUI checkpoints (Tennessean)Now that the holidays are over, many motorists might think the weekends are free of DUI roadblocks — until they get pulled over on a local road, far from interstate hot spots.
South Charleston man charged with DUI (The Charleston Gazette)A South Charleston man was arrested on a DUI charge […]

Man drives car off

Man drives car off road, gets DUI (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)NORTHFIELD — A Woodstock man was cited for DUI after allegedly driving his car off the road. …
DUI Plates for Habitual Drunk Drivers (WRIC 8 News Richmond)Habitual drunk drivers could soon be forced to wear a scarlet letter in the form of a specialty […]

Sheriff to start weekend

Sheriff to start weekend with DUI saturation patrols (Orlando Sentinel)The Osceola County Sheriff's Office plans to conduct two DUI saturation patrols Friday night as part of the Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. campaign. The first patrol will be from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the west side of Osceola County, and the […]

Cooper City official pleads

Cooper City official pleads not guilty to DUI (Miami Herald)Cooper City Commissioner Bart Roper's attorney has entered a written plea of not guilty in response to the commissioner's November DUI arrest.
Paris Hilton Gets Probation For L.A. DUI Arrest (CBS 5 Bay Area)Paris Hilton was placed on 36 months probation and ordered to pay fines after […]

Man Charged In Deadly

Man Charged In Deadly DUI Wreck (WLEX-TV Lexington)The driver of a car that plunged 70 feet down an embankment into a ravine in Thursday night, killing the passenger, has been charged with DUI. The accident happened at about 6:15 p.m. on Boonesboro Road in Clark County.
Felony DUI trial begins (NBC 15 Mobile)Testimony began Wednesday in […]

Sallee faces old DUI

Sallee faces old DUI charges (Wickenburg Sun)The Town of Wickenburg recently re-filed DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol) charges against former Wickenburg Police Officer James Christian Sallee stemming from a December 2005 incident that included an automobile accident.
Evidence Suppression Hearing Could Change Outcome Of Fatal DUI Case (Whiz News Southeastern Ohio)What's being labeled, a […]

DUI crash lands Mechanicsburg

DUI crash lands Mechanicsburg man in jail (Star-Gazette)State Police in Coudersport arrested Michael Francis Kinkopf, 69, of Yorkshire Drive in Mechanicsburg, Pa., on Wednesday on DUI charges. Police said Kinkopf was traveling north on state Route 872 when his vehicle left the right side of the roadway.
Dismissed charge could be refiled in DUI case (Penn […]

Man sentenced in DUI

Man sentenced in DUI deaths (The Biloxi Sun Herald)A Covington County man has been sentenced on two counts of DUI-related vehicular manslaughter in the deaths of two hurricane-recovery workers from Missouri in 2006.
Norco stepped up DUI busts in '06 (Daily Bulletin)NORCO - When three youths died in 2005 from alcohol-related traffic accidents, city officials vowed […]

Murrysville council approves DUI

Murrysville council approves DUI checkpoint participation (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)Murrysville council voted twice in 2003 against participating in a DUI checkpoints program. The current council has approved taking part in the Allegheny Valley DUI Enforcement Program, but the Dec. 20 vote was not unanimous.
DUI Task Force prowls streets (Eastern Arizona Courier)The Gila Valley had a new weapon […]

Tougher DUI laws stir

Tougher DUI laws stir debate (East Valley Tribune)State lawmakers took the fi rst steps Tuesday to create a category beyond extreme DUI that would trigger mandatory jail terms of at least 45 days for Arizona's most intoxicated drivers.
Md. cops defend discretion in DUI enforcement (The News Journal)OCEAN CITY — Police made efforts to educate the […]

Some Broward DUI cases

Some Broward DUI cases could be tossed (Miami Herald)A recent appellate ruling has provided Broward defense attorneys with a strong weapon to try to dismantle hundreds of drunken driving cases.
Metro DUI conviction rate averaged 95% for 2006 (WHAS 11 Louisville)From January 1 through December 31, 2006, Assistant County Attorneys prosecuted 3,297 DUI cases. Of those […]

Defender with two DUI

Defender with two DUI arrests asked to resign (The Palm Beach Post)Following her second DUI arrest in less than seven months, Elizabeth Ramsey, chief of the public defender's major crimes division, has been asked to resign.
DWI/DUI arrest count reaches 118 for December (Plano Courier)A large amount of driving under the influence arrests has grown to […]

DUI crackdown nabs 287

DUI crackdown nabs 287 (Moorpark Acorn)In a winter holiday crackdown brightened by a zero in the DUI fatality column, police officers, sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers from Avoid the 14 Campaign in Ventura County brought in 287 DUI suspects.
Big Island DUI statistics (KPUA Hilo)On January 1, 2007, Big Island police arrested five motorists […]

DUI Task Force prowls

DUI Task Force prowls streets (Eastern Arizona Courier)The Gila Valley had a new weapon against drunk drivers this holiday season. The newly formed Eastern Arizona DUI task force ran at full speed, patrolling Graham and Greenlee counties determined to stop people from drinking and driving.
DUI task force stops more than 30,000 (Tucson Citizen)A statewide DUI […]

Holiday DUI enforcement nets

Holiday DUI enforcement nets more than 40 people - video included (KSEE 24 Fresno)The Fresno Police Department continued their holiday DUI operations through New Year's Eve, arresting 43 people for driving under the influence.
Police Conduct DUI Patrol (WESH 2 Orlando)The Osceola County Sheriff's Office will be conducting a DUI saturation patrol on New Year's Eve […]