DWI Blogs: Woman

A Utah news anchor is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol after being stopped by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper on the freeway.

According to the probable cause statement, Shauna Lake was stopped on the I-215 South Belt near 1200 East just after midnight on Wednesday. The trooper pulled her over after noticing she was driving slower than the speed limit in the far left lane.

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Woman Charged with DWI After OP Crash

Police charged a Southtowns woman with driving while intoxicated following a crash Saturday afternoon.

Officers got a call that a pickup truck went off the road on South Abbott Road between Newton Road and the Route 219 overpass around 2:30 p.m.

Read more Source >> http://www.wgrz.com/news/woman-charged-with-dwi-after-op-crash/437573682

Monday, November 17, 2014

Woman Killed During Suspected DUI Crash In Reseda

RESEDA (CBSLA.com) — Authorities arrested a 24-year-old man Saturday and accused him of driving under the influence in a multi-vehicle crash that killed an 89-year-old woman in Reseda.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers were sent to the area of Wilbur Avenue and Victory Boulevard around midnight.
Lorenzo Gonzalez of Pacoima was driving a Volkswagen Jetta westbound on Victory near Wilbur Avenue about 12:20 a.m., when his car rear-ended a Nissan Altima driven by 55-year-old Moises Montano, Loa Angeles Police Sgt. William Kelly said.
A passenger in the Altima, an 89-year-old woman from Palmdale, was pronounced dead at the scene. She was later identified as Justina Lerrea.

Source : http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/11/16/1-killed-driver-arrested-in-reseda-multi-vehicle-crash/

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Woman charged with DWI twice in 3 hours had prior convictions

A Rochester woman accused of driving drunk twice in a three-hour span last weekend was also twice previously convicted of driving while ability impaired.

Catherine M. Butler, 26, faces misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charges after she was arrested twice early Saturday morning while driving on Buffalo Road in Gates while dressed in a zombie costume, said Lt. Jon Ballard of the Gates Police Department.

Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode said it appeared that Butler had attended a zombie Halloween party at a Gates bar earlier that night.

Butler was initially stopped on Buffalo Road near Howard Road, about 2 a.m. Butler was allegedly driving without headlights when she was stopped by a Gates police officer, Ballard said.

Butler was taken to the Gates Police Department and charged before a friend picked her up.

Source: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/10/28/woman-charged-dwi-twice-hours/18053881/

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Woman files excessive-force lawsuit against CHP officer in DUI arrest

A 25-year-old woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a California Highway Patrol officer who allegedly used excessive force during a suspected DUI arrest in 2012.
Standing outside the U.S. District Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles last Friday, Aloni Bonilla claimed Officer Jose A. Ramirez also violated her civil rights.
Department officials declined to comment because the litigation is ongoing, said CHP spokesman Officer Jose Barrios.
Bonilla said she was driving from her Baldwin Park home to a friend’s house in Alhambra around 1:30 a.m. on March 21, 2012, when she was pulled over on the west 10 Freeway.
She was driving on a section of the freeway that had been shut down, but never saw any traffic signs warning her of the closure when she took the Francisquito Avenue onramp.
After a Breathalyzer test detected traces of alcohol, the Cal State Los Angeles student was taken to a hospital for a blood sample, she said. At the hospital, she claimed the officer became confrontational.

Source : http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-federal-lawsuit-chp-officer-20140321,0,1598145.story#axzz2wyMrhjjb

90 days, 5 years’ probation for woman in wrong-way DWI crash

SANTA FE – A Santa Fe woman who was driving drunk in a wrong-way Interstate 25 crash last year that injured a pregnant woman – forcing the premature birth of her baby – was sentenced Monday to 90 days in jail.

District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer agreed to give Leela Perez, 27, a conditional discharge, meaning Perez’s record will be cleared if she completes supervised probation after her jail time. The judge told Perez the requirements of her five years’ probation, including three with a GPS bracelet and hundreds of hours of community service, are going to “cost you a lot.”

Marlowe said she was not swayed by a gallery filled with dozens of Perez supporters who praised her volunteer work teaching children in Guatemala and South Korea, and working with child land-mine victims in Cambodia.

“I have to think of the victims in this case,” the judge said, adding she didn’t care if Perez’s group filled the courtroom. “You have not spent time in jail,” the judge told Perez, “and you need to.”

Source : http://www.abqjournal.com/373847/news/90-days-5-years-probation-for-woman-in-wrongway-dwi-crash.html

Monday, March 17, 2014

Two women killed by suspected DUI driver in Santa Rosa ID'd

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- We now know the names of two women who were killed when a suspected drunk driver slammed his pickup truck into a car in Santa Rosa Saturday night.

At about 5:20 p.m., 74-year-old Sharon Hufford and her 53-year-old daughter-in-law Susan Hufford were sitting in the back seat of a Toyota Camry that was heading east on Highway 12 when the car slowed in traffic and was struck from behind by a pickup truck.

CHP Officer Guillermo Garcia says the impact obliterated the back seat of the Camry and pushed the car forward into a third vehicle.
Officials say both died instantly.
According to the CHP, two men sitting in the front seats of the Camry suffered moderate and major injuries, and two people in the third vehicle involved were not injured.

The driver of the truck, who was later identified as 30-year-old Rohnert Park resident Nicholas Lee Tognozzi, was not injured.

Susan worked as a music teacher for the Mark West Union School District. The district superintendent described her in an email to parents as a "magnificent teacher who touched so many lives."

The CHP says Tognozzi told officers he looked down to read a text message right before the crash.

He was arrested for vehicular manslaughter and suspected drunk driving and booked at Sonoma County Jail.

Source: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=9468332

Monday, March 10, 2014

OP woman arrested for felony DWI

ORCHARD PARK (WIVB) DWI charges were upgraded to class D felony charges for 24 year-old Laura Lukasiak following her DWI arrest Saturday evening.

OP Police say they responded to a report of a possible intoxicated driver just after 7 p.m. Saturday.

Lukasiak, of Orchard Park, was operating a 2008 Saturn northbound on North Buffalo St. from the Village of Orchard Park. Police located the vehicle a short time later on Orchard Park Road and was observed speeding and weaving out of the lane.

The vehicle was pulled over and Lukasiak was given field sobriety tests and subsequently arrested for DWI. She was returned to the police station where she refused to submit to a breathalyzer test.

The DWI charge was upgraded to a class D felony due to two prior driving while intoxicated convictions in the past 10 years. One in Orchard Park one in West Seneca.

Lukasiak was arraigned in the town of Orchard Park court and was released after posting $1000 bail.

Source:http://wivb.com/2014/03/09/op-woman-arrested-for-felony-dwi/

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Neighbor: Conditions Improving For Woman, Premature Baby Delivered After DWI Accident

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Through the use of a translator, the family of the pregnant woman who was struck by an allegedly drunk off-duty FDNY firefighter in the Bronx says the woman and her premature baby girl are showing signs of improvement.
“Baby is now very nice, is good. And last night, she feel good now,” the neighbor said on behalf of the family.
As 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported Friday, 42-year-old Mamtaz Begun was seven months pregnant when she was hit by a car driven by Sean Farrell, a lieutenant with the FDNY’s Battalion 16 in Harlem.
The accident happened at the intersection of White Plains Road and Westchester Avenue around 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
Begun was walking across the street with a 39-year-old friend when they were struck. She was on the way home from a doctor visit at the time of the accident, Papa reported.
Begun was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where the baby girl was delivered successfully.
Farrell remained at the scene of the accident, told officers he had drank two beers and refused to take a Breathalyzer test, police said. He was charged with DWI and refusing to take a breath test.

Source:http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/07/neighbor-conditions-improving-for-woman-premature-baby-delivered-after-dwi-accident/

Schenectady woman charged with DWI

ROTTERDAM - A woman was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop on Interstate 890 on Thursday, State Police said.

Lena M. Terry of Schenectady was pulled over after she failed to use the directional signal when she changed lanes, troopers said.

Terry allegedly had a blood alcohol content of .18 percent, more than double the legal limit — .08 percent — to be charged with driving while intoxicated.

She was charged with aggravated DWI and ordered to appear in town court on March 20.

Source:http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Schenectady-woman-charged-with-DWI-5297646.php

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Woman Sentenced to Probation for DUI Crash That Broke 3-Year-Old Son’s Neck

Judge Clifford Anderson sentenced 25-year-old Kate Hatrey Walters on Monday to four years of probation for a DUI collision last May that left her 3-year-old son with a broken neck. Walters, who was also ordered to a residential treatment facility, faced a maximum sentence of 10 years and 8 months in prison. Prosecutors had declined to offer Walters any kind of plea deal and argued against probation. According to Senior Deputy District Attorney Arnis Tolks, Walters pleaded guilty to DUI and child-abuse charges, along with a number of enhancements. If Walters violates her probation, Tolks went on, she’ll be sentenced to prison.
On May 19, 2013, Walters started drinking early in the day before traveling with a friend and her young son to Harry’s Plaza Café at around 5 p.m. Police said at the time that Walters and her friend were eventually kicked out when they became unruly and argumentative with restaurant staff. Employees called them a cab, but they continued to make a scene outside Harry’s, so staff called police at around 7:00 p.m. Before officers arrived, Walters put her son in the car in his child seat — which an investigation showed hadn’t been properly installed — and drove off.

Source:http://www.independent.com/news/2014/mar/04/woman-sentenced-probation-dui-crash-broke-3-year-o/?on

Cell phone video shows Virginia cop helping daughter avoid DUI charges, witnesses say

Witnesses say a Richmond, Virginia, police officer helped his daughter avoid drunken driving charges early Sunday morning after she nearly struck some pedestrians after running two stop signs.

Residents had gone outside about 12:30 a.m. after someone struck a parked SUV when they saw another driver speed through a stop sign without slowing down.

“We were forced to flee the street towards the sidewalk as we realized that this was not another cop rushing to the scene, but a driver who has clearly failed to notice a stop sign, an automobile accident, and flashing police lights, and is headed straight for a head-on collision with the wrecked SUV,” said witness S. Preston Duncan, of Church Hill, in a Facebook post shared by Richmond police.
He said the driver slammed on the brakes of her car, swerved around the damaged vehicles, and nearly struck a parked police cruiser with its sirens flashing.

“She was crying hysterically, hitting her head on the steering wheel,” Duncan said. “At one point she got out of the car and spilled the entire contents of her purse on the street.”

Police repeatedly asked the woman to get back into her car, and Duncan said he and least one other person heard one of the officer’s agree to speak to the driver’s father on a cell phone if she called him.

Source:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/cell-phone-video-shows-virginia-cop-help-daughter-avoid-dui-charges-witnesses-say/

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Victim's family says Sunny Hall's 9-year sentence for DUI crash that killed 2 is too short

EL CAJON - A woman who was drunk when she lost control of her car, triggering a series of crashes on Interstate 8 near Alpine that killed two people, was sentenced Monday to nine years in state prison.

Sunny Hall, 31, pleaded guilty in December to two counts each of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the June 11, 2012, deaths of 25- year-old substitute teacher and UCSD graduate student Angela August of Alpine and 59-year-old Calexico teacher Jimmy Arevalo of El Centro.

More than two dozen supporters of the August family showed up in court wearing buttons with a photo of Angela August and the words "For the love of Angela."

A hush fell over the courtroom when Dawn August addressed the judge.

"I have waited 630 days to have this opportunity to speak on behalf of my only beloved daughter, Angela. Her story needs to be told and heard. Angela was a bright, shiny, free-spirited star, artist and scholar," she said.

Angela August was just days away from graduating with honors from the University of California San Diego when she rolled her car in the median of Interstate 8 near Alpine. Moments later, Jimmy Arevalo stopped his car and called 911 to help.

Source:http://www.10news.com/news/sentencing-today-for-woman-who-killed-2-in-drunk-driving-crash-030314

Drawn-out drama: Dina Lohan leaves court with a serious face as the latest hearing in her DWI case is postponed

Dina Lohan got all dressed up in her courtroom best for nothing.
On Tuesday the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan was told that her hearing in Long Island, New York for a September DWI (driving while intoxicated) had been postponed, according to RadarOnline. The blonde is due back in court next month.
The 51-year-old looked serious as she exited the court house with attorney Mark Heller.
Not exactly known for her modesty, the mother arrived to the court house in a Rolls-Royce with Heller.
Dina was conservatively dressed in a navy overcoat, purple blouse underneath a grey and black cardigan, black wide legged slacks and black shoes.
Her blonde locks were loosely styled with bangs as she hid under dark sunglasses and carried a green handbag.

Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2573205/Dina-Lohan-leaves-court-sullen-face-latest-hearing-DWI-case-postponed.html

Monday, March 3, 2014

Woman accused of burning down 'Senator' tree charged with DUI

The woman accused of burning down The Senator, one of the world's largest baldcypress trees, has been arrested again — this time on a DUI charge out of Maitland, according to an arrest report.

Sara Barnes, 28, was pulled over Friday afternoon on U.S. Highway 17-92 after she made a wheel-squealing wide turn onto Horatio Avenue, before cutting off another vehicle, the report states.

The arresting officer reported that Barnes' speech was slurred, her breath smelled strongly of alcohol, and she handed over a real-estate brochure, rather than her registration and insurance.
Barnes, who admitted drinking vodka before driving, failed several field-sobriety tests, the report states. A pair of blood-alcohol tests registered .192 and .194, more than double the legal limit.

On the way to Orange County's DUI center, Barnes began to cry, telling the arresting officer that she "did jail time for burning down the 'Senator' but she actually loves trees," the report says.

Source:http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-sara-barnes-senator-suspect-dui-20140302,0,778195.story

60-year-old Palm Beach woman arrested on DUI charges

Palm Beach police arrested a resident early Saturday morning and charged her with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a suspendedlicense and leaving the scene of a crash that involved property damage.
A doorman at The Biltmore told police Dorian Amy Lipman, 60, was walking unsteadily as she entered the condominium. When she left, Lipman got into her vehicle, drove it forward, then abruptly put it in reverse, according to police. The car crashed into an awning support pole, causing a light dome to fall and break, said Sgt. Tom Melnichok.
The light fixture has a $400 value, he said.
Around 1:30 a.m., police stopped Lipman as she exited her car in a garage at Breakers Row, where she lives. Lipman failed a number of field sobriety tests, used profane language and yelled at officers, Melnichok said. As they always do, police took two breath samples.
Her blood alcohol readings were 1.60 and 1.57, Melnichok said. “She was double the legal limit,” he said.
Lipman was arrested and taken to the Palm Beach County Jail. She was released on her own recognizance without bond around 10 a.m. Saturday.

Source: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/60-year-old-palm-beach-woman-arrested-on-dui-charg/nd4Qj/

Police: Sand Springs Woman Arrested For DUI After Hitting Two Cars

SAND SPRINGS, Oklahoma - A Sand Springs woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and child endangerment after police say she collided with two cars Friday afternoon while picking her son up from school.
Kristy Larie Terhune was arrested after she was in a traffic collision near 200 North Wilson, according to Sand Springs Police.

Witnesses told an investigating officer they had seen Terhune driving across lanes before she sideswiped a different car in the 1700 block of West Wekiwa then continued driving to North Wilson.

The officer interviewed the 36-year-old woman and said her speech was slow and lethargic.

When he asked her what caused her to collide with the other vehicle, Terhune reportedly said she had just picked up her son at school and may have been talking to him

Police asked Terhune if she was on any prescription drugs, and she said she took several prescriptions regularly including Flexeril, Xanax and Percocet, the arrest report states. The officer did field sobriety tests and said Terhune stumbled and swayed while performing them.

The driver of second car she had hit said they did not want to file an accident report because their car wasn't damaged. The driver of the car she had sideswiped showed up and handed police the driver side mirror off Terhune's vehicle which had been knocked off the car.

Terhune was booked on complaints of DUI drugs, first offense; child endangerment, and failure to carry insurance verification. She was released on bond.

Source: http://www.newson6.com/story/24860263/sand-springs-woman-arrested-for-dui-after-hitting-two-cars

Wyandanch woman faces assault, DWI charges after parkway crash

A Wyandanch woman will face a judge Sunday for allegedly driving drunk and high on drugs when her car flipped over and seriously injured a passenger in the vehicle, New York State Police said March 1.

Keira Corbin, 20, was charged with vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated, driving while ability impaired by drugs, unlawful possession of marijuana and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/wyandanch-woman-faces-assault-dwi-charges-after-parkway-crash

Friday, February 7, 2014

Woman cited for DWI in deadly wreck had two prior convictions

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 40-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated in a crash that killed two people Tuesday in Northwest Austin. She had previously been convicted on two other DUI charges.

Police say Melissa A. Marshall was driving her 2009 Ford Escape northbound on the Research Boulevard service road about 2:30 p.m. when she collided with the passenger side of a Honda Civic traveling east along Balcones Woods Drive.

Source:http://kxan.com/2014/02/05/woman-charged-with-dwi-in-deadly-northwest-austin-crash/