You are pulled over by a police officer suspected of driving under the influence. You take a breath or blood test. The result — .12 (or even higher). You are over the legal limit of .08% blood alcohol content (BAC) and you are arrested and charged with Vehicle Code Section…
A north Escondido DUI accident lead to a guilty plea and subsquent sentencing in a Vista courtroom on February 17th, according to 10news.com. Oscar Tinoco, 19, plead guilty to several DUI charges including drunk driving, driving with a blood alcohol level of .08 or higher, hit-and-run, and gross vehicular manslaughter…
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Derek Brenner’s license after he gave a breath sample that read .08 percent blood alcohol concentration (BAC). However, Mr. Brenner challenged this ruling and won, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. During the DMV Hearing, he presented a forensic toxicologist’s report that…
San Diego DUI patrols resulted in 160 driving under the influence arrests during the Super Bowl weekend, according to the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. No deaths have been linked to drunk driving. Included in this statistic are the nine people who were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence…
Lakeside resident, Kathleen Lucinda Sloan, 20, had a preliminary hearing in El Cajon Court on February 9th, according to 10news.com. She is accused of being under the influence of an over-the-counter medication, driving, and then crashing head-on into another motorist in Alpine on November 1st, 2010. Sergio Chan Mora, 54,…
Pacific Beach has the highest DUI arrest rate in San Diego County, according to voiceofsandiego.org. San Diego Police made 514 drunk driving arrests in 2009 in the police beat that roughly covers the Pacific Beach neighborhood. Of those, only 26 were arrested in DUI checkpoints. In 2008, there were 594…
San Diego will have saturation patrols in more than 20 communities throughout the County to stop and arrest drunk drivers, according to a San Diego Sheriff’s Department press release. Encinitas will also be conducting a driving under the influence (DUI) checkpoint on Saturday, February 5th, 2011. The location of this…
San Marcos’ former resident, Karen Faye Honeycutt, 41, was charged with second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, drunk driving causing great bodily injury, and other crimes in connection with a crash in Temecula that killed her nine year old daughter and injured two of her sons on January 21st,…
You are legally on a prescription or even an over-the-counter medication. You are driving your vehicle. Can you be pulled over, cited, and convicted of a driving under the influence (DUI) charge? The answer is yes, if you are in fact under the influence and driving! Driving under the influence,…
After pleading guilty to his second driving under the influence (DUI) charge, Vince Neil, the singer of the rock band Motley Crue, will serve two weeks in jail plus two weeks of house arrest, according to news.yahoo.com. Neil plead guilty to the misdeamenor DUI charge, stemming from an incident on…