DUI News

Top DUI News for the Week of June 27th - July 3rd in the year Two Thousand and Eleven

Sunday July 3rd, 2011
John Shore: On Ryan Dunn: Drunk Driving Is Wrong? We'll Drink to That It's so easy to say that Ryan Dunn, or anyone who drinks and drives, is personally responsible for whatever damage they do. But every time a drunk driving accident occurs, aren't we all at least a little to blame?
Saturday July 2nd, 2011
Elgin woman pleads guilty to 6th DUI, gets 8 years The Daily Herald reports: Sandra Uher, 54, of Elgin was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined almost $7,000 today after pleading guilty to her sixth DUI charge. Uher, who apologized and said she was trying to deal with her addiction, had faced up to 30 years incarceration.
Friday, July 1st, 2011
DUI suspect kicks officer in the groin A woman is now facing felony charges for kicking an officer in the groin. The Dover Township woman, Natasha Lynn Spotts, 27, Dover, was driving erratically in the vicinity of North George Street and 7th Avenue. She was pulled over and arrested for DUI. While undergoing tests at the hospital Spotts kicked the officer who arrested her in the groin. The officer responded by applying additional ...
Thursday June 30th, 2011/
DWI charge filed against driver allegedly caught with victim's body lodged in car HOUSTON - A driver accused of killing a pedestrian on the Gulf Freeway early Tuesday has been charged with DWI and failure to stop and render aid. James John Onak, 49, struck and killed Fadel Steadman, 32, and kept going with the victim's body lodged in his car, according to Houston police. HPD said Steadman had pulled his Ford Explorer into the emergency lane on the Gulf Freeway southbound near ...
Wedneday June 29th, 2011
Man in drunk-driving case found not guilty The father of a young woman killed in what prosecutors called a drunk-driving crash attacked the defense attorney outside court on Tuesday, moments after the jury acquitted the driver of causing two deaths and severely hurting a third passenger.
Tuesday June 28th, 2011
Officer Benny Lantigua's big mouth leads to gun, DWI raps An off-duty NYPD cop was charged with boozed-up driving and pulling a gun on a restaurant worker during a spat over the weekend. Officer Benny Lantigua, 32, who denies the rap, capped a ...
Monday June 27th, 2011
DUI suspect claims victim's bad parking led to fatal accident An attorney for a Burbank man charged with striking and killing a prominent local doctor argued in court Friday that the victim was dangerously close to traffic at the time that he was hit. A family practitioner and a married...