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Sam Shepard Arrested for DUI in Illinois
Sam Shepard DUI: Actor charged with drunk driving in Normal, Illinois Saturday January 3, 2009 around 2AM.
The actor, playwright and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Sam Shepard was charged with driving under the influence in Central Illinois early Saturday. Shepard reportedly had been drinking at 'Fat Jacks', a bar in Bloomington, and was stopped around 2:00 am for speeding while on his way back to his hotel. The arresting officer said Shepard appeared intoxicated and had driven his Chevy Blazer onto the curb during the traffic stop. His blood alcohol content was more than twice the .08% legal limit for intoxication in Illinois. Shepard posted bond and was released Sunday.
Shepard, 65, was driving from Minnesota through Illinois on his was home to Kentucky. He appeared in the films 'Black Hawk Down', 'Swordfish', 'The Pelican Brief' and 'The Notebook'. He received a Pulitzer in 1979 for his play 'Buried Child'. Shepard lives with his longtime partner Jessica Lange, with whom he has two children.
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Heather Locklear's California DUI Dismissed
Actress Heather Locklear pleads to lesser offense of reckless driviing and receives probation.
Heather Locklear entered a plea of no contest to misdemeanor reckless driving and, in exchange, had her case of driving under the influence of drugs dismissed. Locklear was not in the Santa Barbara court on Friday morning when her California defense attorney accepted a plea bargain that calls for the actress to serve three years of probation, pay a $700 fine and complete a 12-hour drug education program.
Last September the 47-year old Locklear was charged with California DUI in Montecito after a 911 call alerted police to her erratic driving. She was determined to be impaired by prescription drugs. A blood test confirmed no presence of alcohol or illegal narcotics.
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Police Arrest 438 for California DUI During New Year’s Celebration
Number of statewide arrests for drunk driving in California up from last year.
The California Highway Patrol reported an up-tick in arrests for drunk driving across the state. A total of 438 motorists were charged with driving under the influence in California, with 11 traffic related deaths attributable to alcohol. Last year there were 362 arrests and 4 fatalities.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, officers arrested 84 drivers for California DUI, more than twice the number in 2007. The increase in drunk driving arrests surprised law enforcement officers, as the number of DUI arrests made during the Christmas holiday were down as much as 40%.
The arrest reporting period started early evening New Year’s Eve and ended early morning on New Year’s Day.
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24 Holiday Arrests Recorded for Texas DWI in Austin
The ‘no refusal’ blood draw involved with half of those arrested.
The Austin Police Department arrested 24 motorists for driving while intoxicated in Texas on New Year’s Eve. Eleven of those arrested submitted to a breath test, one voluntarily provided a blood sample and 12 had their blood drawn under a no refusal policy. For those who refused a breath test, police received search warrants from a judge that forced the motorist to have their blood drawn. The blood draws were conducted at the Travis County Jail by a trained phlebotomist. The average blood alcohol content of those arrested was .16%, which is twice the legal threshold for intoxication in Texas.
During the drunk driving crackdown, police patrolled the streets accompanied by a mobile breath testing bus. The effort started at 9 pm New Year’s Eve and ended at 5 am New Year’s Day.
Police Chief Art Acevedo has reported that alcohol related deaths fell in the last year. Alcohol is now involved in 37% of all traffic fatalities in Austin.
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UFC Fighter Charged with Iowa DUI
Lightweight Josh Neer led police on high speed chase before arrest for drunk driving in Des Moines.
"Ultimate Fighting Championship Lightweight Josh Neer was charged with driving under the influence in Des Moines Iowa after reportedly hitting two vehicles and leading police on a high speed chase. Neer fled the scene of the accident and exceeded 100-mph while leading cops on a 15 minute chase. He was stopped with spike strips that deflated his tires.
Neer was booked for drunk driving in Iowa and freed on a $7000 bond.
Neer holds a 3-4 record in the UFC octagon, winning a unanimous decision on his return to UFC in early 2008. He cancelled a September bout and is scheduled to return to action February 7 in UFC Fight Night 17.
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First 2009 Arrest for Texas DWI in Waco
Driver crashes into police cruiser to be first charged with drunk driving in 2009.
The first 2009 arrest for driving while intoxicated in Waco, Texas came with a bang early Thursday morning. Shortly after midnight, Martin Flores, 23, crashed his 1997 Pontiac Grand Am into the back of a police cruiser that was stopped at an intersection.
The accident caused little damage to either vehicle and no one was injured. Flores was booked on suspicion of drunk driving in Waco at the McLennan County Jail and released Thursday afternoon.
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Close to 2300 Arizona DUI Arrests Made During the Holidays
Statewide total for drunk driving in Arizona covers Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve window.
Law enforcement agencies across the state arrested nearly 2,300 motorists for driving under the influence in Arizona. The annual sweep began Thanksgiving Day and ended New Year’s Eve.
Officers made 26,917 traffic stops resulting in 2,262 DUI arrests. A spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety said the total number of arrests were down from the previous year, though that was partly influenced by the fact that the enforcement window was a week less due to a late Thanksgiving. Of the arrests, 175 drivers were charged with extreme DUI which is applied when the blood alcohol content is .15% of greater. The legal limit for intoxication in Arizona is .08%. The average BAC of all the arrested drivers was .148%.
The arrest total includes 143 charges of underage Arizona DUI.
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Changes to California DUI Laws
New year brings new California drunk driving legislation.
Effective Thursday, January 1, there will be zero tolerance for repeat offenders of driving under the influence in California. A new law stipulates that a person convicted of CA DUI cannot operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content of .01 per cent or greater while on probation for the DUI offense. A motorist on probation for California DUI is required to submit to a breath test when requested by a law enforcement officer. Refusal to do so will result in a ticket being issued, driver’s license being seized, driving privileges suspended and impoundment of vehicle.
The same penalties apply if a breath test reveals a BAC of .01% or greater.
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Ferrari Owner Hits Multiple Cars Trying to Avoid NJ DWI Traffic Stop
Driver is a bail bondsman with his own criminal history.
David Sainato, 42, is a bail bondsman who makes a living out of helping people get out jail. On Monday evening he had to post his own bail after crashing his Ferrari during a wild chase that resulted in several people being sent to the hospital.
Weehawken police were alerted to a gray Ferrari 430 that had hit several cars around 6:30 pm. Police managed to pull over the vehicle but as they approached, Sainato sped away, striking a Subaru station wagon in his attempted escape. The Ferrari then struck two more vehicles a few hundred yards away. One of those vehicles, a Chevrolet Impala carrying six people, flipped over and came to a rest on its roof. Finally the Ferrari, which had a value of $262,000 when new, hit a Nissan Maxima, damaging yet another vehicle with flying debris.
Sainato was treated for head trauma at a local medical center. Four of the six people in the Impala were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The results of tests for blood alcohol content are still pending. Sainato faces several charges, including driving while intoxicated in New Jersey.
Sainato was arrested for making terroristic threats last September 30. On November 23 he was charged again with making terroristic threats and for aggravated assault. He is currently out on $250,000 bail for those charges. Last February, Sainato sideswiped another vehicle and hit a tree, for which he was charged with drunk driving in New Jersey and resisting arrest. In the early 90’s, he spent four year in prison for various crimes, including conspiracy to commit arson. Sainato received four years probation in July 2003 for assault by auto.
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Star of 'Trading Spaces' Charged with Illinois DUI
Doug Wilson stopped in Decatur Illinois for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
Doug Wilson, the star of television home improvement series 'Trading Spaces', was arrested for driving under the influence in Illinois. Wilson was stopped around 1:00 am in Decatur Illinois after failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. That vehicle happened to be a police cruiser with its lights and siren blaring.
Wilson was charged with aggravated Illinois DUI, driving with a suspended license, failure to yield the right of way and the illegal transport of alcohol. He was released after posting a $1000 bond.
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from,but,unless you're willing to "turn the page" on our freedom,civil rights and way of life as Americans and unless you're willing to sell out this great country to mindless irrational pressure groups and eventually probably find yourself saluting the chinese or the north korean flag,I think
you should reconsider your way of thinking.just ask yourself,
since when was using "fear tactics" ,imposing "harsher laws" and "severe punishment" the best way to solving problems in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? the solutions have to be in line with our core values and the spirit of our constitution.
we can not afford paying our freedom and civil rights as a price for the so called "safety".
Our core values in America include respect for our neighbors. Our right to live. The Constitution establishes our rights and in return, we are asked only to be law abiding citizens. Asking and expecting people to make responsible choices is not a fear tactic. The only people that fear harsher laws are the selfish individuals that feel they are above the law. The ones that put their own desire to drive drunk over the rights of the innocent person they kill. What are mindless irrational pressure groups are you so frightened of? Driving drunk is not a civil right.
this law in the States with nothing to fear because the only people who will be affected by it are those"selfish"assholes!
harsh laws don't creat civilized citizens.harsh laws don't creat civilized society.and harsh laws certainly don't solve problems.they rather pull countries backwards and into the garbage can of human history.there will always be folks who violate the law for whatever reasons.there will always be folks who aren't civilized enough to respect other people's rights.however,they should never be the excuse for uncivilized
laws as the law's role in a democracy is to "set the level" for civilization and "effectively" bring the people UP to that level rather than bringing the legal system DOWN to the level of the violators.everybody wants to live no argument there,but,what kind of life do we want for ourselves and our future generations?you're asking me what pressure groups I'm "afraid" of? I'm talking about self righteous zealots like MADD,DADD,"SADD" and the rest of the ADDs who pretend their purpose is to save us from crimes and deliver us from sins by promoting false ideas,skewed statistics and generic science while pushing for authoritarian laws and hidden agendas!such groups will stop at nothing,luring mostly naive people into supporting their "cause" with the use of distorted
facts and cheap rhetorics.ironically enough,the laws in Saudi Arabia are pushed NOT by the average citizens nor exactly by the government but by none other than a "pressure group" named
"wahabis" with the unfortunate blessing of great numbers of the mislead public!do you see some similarity?are you afraid yet?well maybe when you get pulled over someday and your BAC reads 0.00001 on the machine "harsher law" and you get your wiener amputated "harsher punishment" then you'll get the point!!
We encarcerate more of our population then any other civilized nation on earth.
It was merely pot, now it is alcohol. While they utilize the DUI statutes it does not matter, many are jailed merely for being found to have been drinking wether they drove or not.
The ravenous appetite of our out of control penal system will never be satisfied but only grow as more and more are fed to it.As thathappens more and more unreasonable laws and law enforcement. Given the stories coming out now about the crimes being perpetrated by law enforcement officials in thier quest to feed this lion it should not be long.
We have become a nation of unreasonable incarceration. the war on drugs could not keep the system fed nor will these unreasonable DUI laws. They will only wreck innocent lives in the name of saving life while the death rate on our highways continues climbing unabated. If they really wanted to decrease highway fatailities they would fix the roads. And stop cramming so many onto so small a driving area. When the number of cars goes up and the roadway area does not then the danger/death rate goes up. Putting people in jail does nothing to change this equation.
The devestation of the war on drugs and DUI statutes will not go on as they are today for long. As more and more families are kicked to the curb by the real consequences of these barbarian methods more will rise up until there are so many that jails will finally and mercifully be closed down and the lions that fed on the carnage sent packing.
the real victims are not only those in prison, but their families as well who suffered the economic consequences and emotional trauma inflicted upon them by a system that allowed the real animals to incarcerate good people for the real crime of having normal human faults.
This will certainly happen and when it does we should be prepared to deal with the economic re-patriation of the real victims of these laws.
I could not agree with you more. What was the outcome of your ordeal? Think I am going to lobby for NDDAMM. Non Drunk Drivers Against Madd Mothers.
what's the ACLU's stance on this issue? I think they should
get involved because this is not just about "drunk driving" ,this goes way beyond that to hit our very civil liberties!
for those millions who have been miraculously turned into
"criminals" for committing NO ACTUAL crime, I think it's time for them to stop feeling guilty or even sorry and stand up for this wave of injustice.
and for those who FOOLISHLY support MADD and their likes in the name of "safety", take a deeper look, do you really want to live in a country where random "check points" manned by the MARINE CORPS in some cases, are spread all over our cities and counties? do you want to live in a country where the average citizen is presumed GUILTY untill proven otherwise?
if you think drunk drivers are a threat, MADD is far more
dangerous of a threat to you and your children, you just don't know it yet.
