A Guatemalan who admitted he drank a small bottle of whiskey, 12 beers, and used cocaine three times during the 18 hours before he failed to stop for a red light, has been arrested in Phoenix for killing a six-year-old child.
Private detective and former Riverside cop Christopher Joseph Lanzillo, hired by the union-led Costa Mesa Police Association to set up a DUI scam against a conservative City Councilman, pleaded guilty to felony charges of false imprisonment and conspiracy to file a false police report.
West Virginia state troopers rescued and bathed a one-year-old baby boy covered in vomit after they arrested his mother for an alleged DUI arrest.
Murder charges have been added to those facing 29-year-old Esteysi Sanchez, the woman accused of killing Jack Ray Tenhulzen while driving with more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream and continuing about a mile down the road with the man lodged in the passenger side of the vehicle before she left.
SAN DIEGO — 29-Year-old Esteysi Sanchez Izazaga pled not guilty on Wednesday to felony charges relating to the brutal hit-and-run death of a 69-year-old man who authorities say was struck by Sanchez’s car and hurled through her windshield early Monday morning in Oceanside, California.
Voters in Austin, Texas, decisively rejected a proposal by Uber and Lyft to relax regulations on their companies. They have now responded that they are “pausing” operations there.
A Georgia man was arrested for underage drinking in a local bar, but being stinking drunk was not the only thing for which he was arrested. The 20-year-old was also arrested for spraying an entire bottle of novelty “fart spray” on patrons and stinking up the place, police say.
Abby Wambach had a rough weekend.
A drunk Wisconsin couple was caught by police allegedly allowing their nine-year-old daughter to drive them home in their pickup truck to avoid getting stopped for drunk driving.
A woman who blew a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit, had her charges dismissed by the judge after he heard evidence that her gut ferments alcohol from food. The condition is called “auto-brewery syndrome.”
On Thursday, only a day after an allegedly drunk teacher and former debutante smashed into two 12-year-olds walking to school, sending them to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, the city of San Francisco finally decided to make the area safer for pedestrians.
Actor John Stamos has officially been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, four months after he was arrested in a Los Angeles.
The owner of a daycare center told police that she was hit in the face with a shovel by the girlfriend of a drunken father of three children in her care because she would not allow him to leave the center with the children.
A Florida woman was arrested over the weekend for drunk driving after live-streaming her trek from the bar via Periscope, which is an app that allows users to stream live video. Whitney Beall, 23, told those watching her live-stream that
A Florida man, who led Manatee County Sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase, had an interesting explanation once he was apprehended: He was not the driver.
Former Full House star John Stamos will be charged with driving under the influence of the date rape drug GHB, TMZ reports.
A man has apparently got in trouble with the Marine Corps and the police in Camp Pendleton, San Diego, for his antics with a raccoon.
On Tuesday, a drunk Cincinnati woman engineered a trifecta, allegedly crashing her car into the patio of a restaurant, telling patrons to attack police if they arrested her, and assaulting a police officer.
A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.
A bizarre video of a California woman who abruptly stopped her car in the middle of a road and left the vehicle as it rolled into oncoming traffic has gone viral on YouTube, reaching over 2.8 million views since it was posted on September 1.
A Local television news anchor in California faces charges for driving under the influence (DUI) and assaulting a police officer after being tracked down and arrested Sunday evening.
According to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, an exponential increase in the number of deaths involving marijuana-impaired drivers occurred between 2013 and 2014, reports KOIN.
APOPKA, Flor. — A woman in Florida with a drinking problem apparently taught her 4-year-old son how to use a breathalyzer to get her car started.
There has been another “mystery death” for an inmate in a Texas jail. A man was found dead in his jail cell in Georgetown on Saturday afternoon. Texas Rangers are investigating the mysterious death to determine what happened to 54 year old Francisco Vasquez.
Michael Phelps, stopped for drunk driving last fall, told the Associated Press that he has not tasted alcohol since his arrest, and may give it up forever.
Sam DuBose, the man shot to death by Officer Ray Tensing, had two pounds of marijuana in his car, along with thousands in cash, according to police sources familiar with the case.
WRCB News in Chattanooga reports that Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez, the 24-year-old gunman who launched a murderous attack on a military recruiting office and training center, was arrested for DUI last April.
Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested for aggravated DUI outside a Santa Fe, N.M. restaurant Monday night.
Actor Seth Gilliam, who plays a priest on the AMC hit series The Walking Dead, was arrested for drunk driving, possession of marijuana, and reckless driving early Sunday morning after police caught him driving over 100 mph on a Georgia highway.
A 25-year-old female student from San Diego State University passed out while driving early Friday morning, leaving her black Chrysler Sebring stopped in the middle of I-805 near Kearny Mesa around 1 a.m. while, miraculously, other cars speeding by managed
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland believes former Bishop Heather Cook was “inebriated” at a private dinner the day before the official rehearsal for her consecration as Bishop, according to a timeline of events leading up the fatal accident two days after Christmas.
On Wednesday Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings was arrested going 99 miles per hour in a 65 zone in Georgia. Police allege he was also drunk. But Jennings had an excuse: he was late for his 2-year-old child’s parent-teacher conference.
A man was arrested on suspicion of DUI Thursday night after stealing a nine-passenger electric golf cart from the Rose Bowl and taking the vehicle onto the 210 freeway in Pasadena.
Parents Matt and Raeona Dies cannot bring their young daughter back to life, but have pushed to hold accountable those responsible in the DUI crash that killed her. A quiet early November settlement granted the couple $2.5 million from the United States Government, a co-defendant in the lawsuit seeking damages and asserting the Congressional aide behind the wheel that night became intoxicated on government time. Reports have indicated a possible cover-up from Congresswoman Capps’ office.
Monday State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, will introduce a bill to mandate that anyone convicted of driving under the influence will be forced to install an ignition interlock device in their vehicle.