DUI News Digest

A woman was found guilty Tuesday of murder in a drunken driving crash that left three Las Vegas teens dead last spring in Huntington Beach, officials said. A jury convicted 29-year-old Bani Duarte on three counts of murder and one count of driving under the influence with a sentencing enhancement for causing great bodily injury in the March 29, 2018, incident, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. The crash killed 17-year-olds Brooke Hawley and Albert Rossi and 18-year-old ... Read More »

A video of a Washington school bus driver accused of driving “drunk” showed the woman screaming at students and telling them that she is “totally crazy.” The driver, Catherine Maccarone, 48, resigned from her job last week after being charged with driving under the influence and reckless endangerment in the Sept. 12 incident, authorities said. The video, which was obtained by NBC affiliate KGW, showed Maccarone completing routes in the Longview School District with elementary and high school students. The video begins with Maccarone talking ... Read More »

A bus driver in Washington is facing charges of driving under the influence and reckless endangerment after a young passenger called 911 to report that she was intoxicated. Catherine Maccarone, 48, was arrested after a child who had just gotten off the bus told police her breath smelled of alcohol, according to audio from the 911 call obtained by several media outlets. The caller told dispatchers he’d tried to get his friends to get off the bus with him but Maccarone wouldn’t let them. “The bus driver, ... Read More »

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A Bryan teen is in jail after police said he was driving drunk, hit a woman with his vehicle and drove away without stopping to help. Pedro Puga, 17, is charged with intoxication assault, evading arrest and accident involving serious bodily injury. It happened just after 2 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of University Drive and South Texas Avenue.  Puga was driving northbound when he hit the woman and continued driving, according to court documents.  A ... Read More »

PHOENIX – A 10-year-old girl recorded video of her mother driving while intoxicated Saturday before calling the police, according to Maricopa County court documents. Stephanie Davis, 31, was arrested Sept. 7 at around 4:15 p.m. in Glendale on suspicion of aggravated DUI, records say. The 10-year-old showed Glendale police the video in which three children under the age of 15 yell at Davis to stop before she gets into an accident, court documents show. Officers said Davis was staggering around outside the car ... Read More »

SAN DIEGO — Seventy-one people, the same as a year ago, were arrested in San Diego County on suspicion of driving under the influence from the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend at 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday, the California Highway Patrol reported. There was one fatality in the county reported by the CHP thus far this year, the same as in 2018. Statewide, there were 980 arrests made for suspicion of DUI, 11 more than the ... Read More »

WASHINGTON — Washington City Councilman, Matthew Staniszewski, is being charged with his 4th DUI, according to police. According to the police report, the councilman was parked on an angle in the middle of East Wheeling Street, just after 1 p.m. on Monday. The report says that he was confused, his eyes were glassy and the officer didn’t conduct field sobriety tests for fear he would fall. Staniszewski was charged with DUI in 2004, 2006 and 2007 . His attorney, Sean ... Read More »

Two cops from the same New Jersey police department were busted separately for drunk driving on the same day, according to a new report. Gloucester Township police officer Steven Lenker, 29, allegedly hit a pedestrian and a parked car while under the influence on July 18, while fellow officer James Ryan, 28, was allegedly three times over the legal booze limit, NJ.com reports. Lenker — a six-year veteran of the force who earns $95,536 — allegedly hit a pedestrian in Atlantic ... Read More »

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol says a Duplin County man faces felony charges after he allegedly hit and killed two pedestrians with his truck on Saturday. According to investigators at NCSHP Troop B in Duplin County, at 8:36 p.m. Saturday on Tram Road, Jeanie Johnson Jenkins, age 44 of Mt. Olive, and Horace Wayne Pittman Jr., age 49 of Mount Olive, were struck by a vehicle and died.o Investigators say, Alfonso Santos, age 37 of Albertson, was driving his ... Read More »

The saga surrounding the criminal case in the 2018 death of a Jemison woman is nearing its end. It took only about 50 minutes of deliberation for a jury to reach a guilty verdict in the case against 20-year-old Jorge Ruiz on July 24. Ruiz was on trial in Autauga County for the death of 29-year-old Marlena Hayes of Jemison. The jury found Ruiz, an illegal immigrant, guilty of reckless murder for his role in Hayes’s death. According to 19th ... Read More »