DUI News Digest

Durham, N.C. – Before a 2012 Toyota Camry was an uninvited guest inside an Amber Stone Way home, it first introduced itself to Courtney Hill’s vehicle. “My parents came downstairs and said ‘Courtney, someone just hit your car,'” she said. “And I’m thinking ‘no way.'” When Hill stepped outside at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, she noticed damage to the front driver’s side of her Nissan Murano. “Before we can think, the car immediately…you hear the gas and they reversed very ... Read More »

CHARLOTTE, NC — The Department of Public Safety is withholding dash camera video in some cases, even if you’re the one charged with a crime. Legal battles are piling up around the metro as attorneys fight to get footage in drunk driving cases. Attorneys say DPS started sealing the video evidence this year. Read More »

LOWVILLE — A Greig woman was sentenced Friday in Lewis County Court to jail time on a drunken-driving charge. Jody L. Houghton, 49, of 7224 Sweeney Road, was sentenced to one year in county jail, a three-year conditional discharge, a $1,000 fine, $570 in court fees, an 18-month driver’s license revocation and mandatory participation in victim impact panel and ignition interlock programs on a charge of felony aggravated driving while intoxicated, to which she pleaded guilty Feb. 27. She was ... Read More »

A Lodi man, who had been a New Milford police officer until he resigned on April 1, was arrested two days later on drug-related and intoxicated-driving charges, authorities say. Read More »

LINDEN — The city’s police department would have been required to inform the county prosecutor and conduct an internal investigation both times Officer Pedro Abad was charged with drunken driving, according to the department’s policies. Read More »

The car accidents city police officer Pedro Abad was involved in during the past 10 years include one in which he rear-ended a car at a stoplight, another in which he crashed into a highway guardrail, and a third in which he slammed through the front of a store, police records show. Read More »

A Bexar County assistant district attorney has been fired following an incident in which she was mentioned in a friend’s driving while intoxicated arrest report for advising him not to submit to a breath test. Read More »

The proposed felony DUI bill is a foolish idea and will hurt Colorado, not help it. We fear drunken driving. The fear is legitimate based on the possible tragic outcome of this behavior. Psychologically, fear is followed by anger. That anger is directed toward the multiply convicted drinking driver. Read More »

A North Charleroi woman is accused of taking along her two children on a drug deal set up through a police informant. Read More »

A Texas woman is suing Austin police for placing a bag over her head, strapping her to a chair and using a “choke hold” and “pressure points” to draw blood for a DUI test, according to legal papers she has filed. Read More »