DUI News Digest

LEWES, Del.- A Lewes woman has been arrested for 6th offense DUI, shoplifting and related offenses after authorities say she drove drunk to a supermarket in order to steal meat. Police said it happened at around 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, when troopers were dispatched to the ACME, located at 18578 Coastal Highway Unit 13 in Lewes, for a report of an intoxicated woman inside of the store shoplifting. Prior to arrival, Troopers received broadcasts from the Sussex County Emergency Operation Center about an Acura ... Read More »

State police say they arrested a Plumville man for suspicion of driving under the influence last Friday night after an accident on Five Points Road in Washington Township. Police say a pickup driven by 58-year-old Mark Fleming hit the guide rails near Hill Road and Fleming continued on to his mother’s home a few miles away. A witness found the truck with Fleming still in the driver’s seat and suspected something was wrong, so he called 911. Read More »

An Anderson man was arrested on suspicion of DUI and vehicular manslaughter after the boat he was towing on Highway 273 struck a man who later died at the hospital Wednesday night, Redding police said. Investigators said Stewart Helmer, 63, was driving his SUV and pulling a boat south on Highway 273 near Breslauer Way around 10:45 p.m. Helmer was in the right lane when he saw a person on the west side of the road near the fog line ... Read More »

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — James Anderson, the man accused of running a red light last Sunday at Chestnut and Nees in northeast Fresno, killing a teen, faced a judge on Wednesday via video conference. He is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence. 19-year-old Carson Gates was killed, and his 17-year-old girlfriend was injured in the crash. “In this case, the defendant was under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana. He was observed going ... Read More »

SALT LAKE CITY — New court documents explain what led police officers to stop and cite KUTV news anchor Shauna Lake with DUI last month at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Lake, who is listed in court documents as Shauna Lake Marshall, 49, of Holladay, is charged in Salt Lake City Justice Court with driving under the influence of alcohol, a class B misdemeanor. Her attorney, Scott Williams, entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of his client on ... Read More »

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI — A South Kingstown man was hit by a driver and killed while walking on Middlebridge Road Friday evening, police said. The driver, 30-year-old Cara Kenyon of Wakefield, was charged with driving under the influence: death resulting; refusal to submit to a chemical test; and obstruction. Read More »

DODGE COUNTY, Neb. — On Monday, the Dodge County Attorney was arrested for first offense driving under the influence. According to a press release from the Dodge County Attorney’s Office, Oliver Glass was arrested in Dodge County and was processed by law enforcement “consistently with similar cases. He was released from custody upon posting the scheduled bond amount.” Read More »

This article deals with methods to suppress the blood alcohol number versus the numerous attacks on the number as it relates to the intoxilizer. It is far easier to have the blood alcohol results suppressed during pretrial than it is to convince jurors the results are inaccurate. There are a number of requirements that must be met before the intoxilizer is admissible in Kentucky. Sources of these attacks come from the Kentucky Administrative Regulations, Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS), and manuals ... Read More »

The driver was hospitalized after the 4:16 a.m. crash; Obinna Anyanwu had played in a high school championship basketball game the previous night California Highway Patrol officers arrested a Cathedral Catholic High basketball player on Sunday after he crashed his car into a freeway median, got out of his car and then was hit by two vehicles on state Route 163. Obinna Kelvin Anyanwu, 18, was driving a Nissan Altima south on SR-163 just south of Balboa Avenue around 4:16 ... Read More »

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — A woman has been sentenced for killing a father and son in a DUI collision on Easter. Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille tells Channel 3 News that Marie Simpkins was sentenced to 24 years in state prison. Read More »