Tag Archives: Florida DUI

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA – by Kyra Shportun ABC7-Fort Myers, FL 6:41 PM EST, Tue March 09, 2021 A Lee County Sheriff’s Office commander was arrested for DUI in Collier County. Just after 11 p.m. Sunday Commander Mark Shelly, 42, was pulled over for making an illegal u-turn in North Naples and swerving in and out of his lane of traffic, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. Shelly was pulled over on Vanderbilt Drive where deputies said he was seen putting ... Read More »

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (CW44 News At 10) – A Florida woman has been arrested for her third DUI in the State of Florida. This time, the DUI resulted in a traffic accident. The two-vehicle traffic crash in southeast Winter Haven on Thursday afternoon, February 11, 2021, culminated with the arrest of a middle school P.E. teacher for driving while impaired. Arrested was 57-year-old Kathryn Lewis. Neither she, nor the other driver were injured in the crash…. Kathryn Lewis’ prior criminal history ... Read More »

GREENWOOD, Fla.(dothaneagle.com) – After falling asleep at the wheel with a beer can in her hand, a Greenwood, Florida woman almost rolled her truck into a ditch, Jackson County Sherriff’s Office said. Erica Nicole Cobb, 35, was later charged with a DUI (alcohol). Early Sunday morning, officers were dispatched to a suspicious vehicle parked in the middle of Highway 71 in the Greenwood area. Upon arrival, deputies found a Dodge pickup truck roadway with the engine running.  Read More. To ... Read More »

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News, U.S. News and World Report, Copyright © 2021 HealthDay) — America’s roads are notoriously unsafe on New Year’s Eve, and a new study shows that marijuana legalization could be making the situation even worse. Almost half of teenagers who regularly use pot admit they’ve gotten behind the wheel while stoned, a new study in JAMA Network Open reveals.  Read More. A DUI offense is not limited to a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) above the ... Read More »

Stephen Daniels of DUI UNDO Consultants has announced a new challenge he discovered while spending time trolling the Florida Administrative Rules regarding breath testing in Florida.  Under Florida Administrative Code section 11D-8 which covers the testing of substances for alcohol in DUI cases, an evidentary breath test instrument must be registered prior to use.  The rules under 11D8-004(4) state that Department Inspectors shall be employed… to register evidentary breath test instruments…  Until the last 30 registrations, all breath test instruments ... Read More »

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – A Treasure Coast correctional officer is accused of driving drunk with his two young kids in the car.  Douglas Schultz was pulled over in Port St. Lucie on Monday after he yelled at a police officer from his car. An officer reports that the two children inside Schultz’s car appeared frightened. Schultz is charged with child neglect and driving under the influence. He is a sergeant at the Martin Correctional Institution. Read More »

OCALA —  A 28-year-old Marion County woman has been charged with DUI and child neglect after crashing into a tree with her two young children inside her car, including an autistic 2-year-old boy who was sitting on her lap. Ocala police arrived late Saturday at the intersection of Southwest 10th Street and Southwest 27th Avenue to find Erica Peluso, 28, trying to remove her 6-year-old child from the back seat of her Chevy Malibu, which was severely damaged after hitting the tree. ... Read More »

Coral Springs, FL – Sun Sentinel A woman accused of drunken driving in a wrong-way crash that killed two 21-year-old friends from Coral Springs says she has no recollection of the accident. She also questions why the head-on crash didn’t kill her. “How I ended up on the Sawgrass Expressway, I wish I knew,” Kayla Maria Mendoza told “Inside Edition” in an interview. Some of that interview aired Wednesday night on FOX station WSVN-Ch. 7, while other excerpts were released ... Read More »

BOCA RATON — The recently named chief financial officer of Office Depot was arrested late Saturday on a DUI charge. A Boca Raton police officer pulled over Stephen E. Hare, 60, after spotting his Audi going 57 mph in a 35 mph zone at 11:33 p.m. Hare struggled to complete a field sobriety test, and breath tests showed his blood alcohol content was 0.180 and 0.186, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08. Read More »

Tallahassee, FL – Rep. Dane Eagle, R-Cape Coral, was arrested Monday morning and charged with DUI by Tallahassee police, according to the Tallahassee police. Eagle, 30, was driving a black SUV at about 1:50 a.m. after leaving a Taco Bell on W. Tennessee Street. A Tallahassee police officer noticed that the SUV turned left, striking a raised median, and turned back. It crossed into the intersection of Caliark Street and Tennessee, past the stop bar and waited at a red ... Read More »