Archive for February 2nd, 2011

02.2
11

Texas: editorial — too many drunken drivers are delaying or evading justice

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From MySanAntonio.com:
San Antonio police officer Michael Thornton endured two deployments to Iraq as a soldier. He survived a blast from an improvised explosive device in 2006 that sent him to Brooke Army Medical Center with second- and third-degree burns. He almost lost his life in the line of duty on the streets of San Antonio.    
It wasn’t an assailant with a gun who almost killed Thornton early one Saturday morning in January. Instead, according to police reports, it was a suspected drunken driver who plowed into Thornton’s cruiser as he was assisting stranded motorists on an elevated downtown freeway, briefly pinning him between the two vehicles, then propelling him over the guardrail.   MORE

02.2
11

New York: man with 4 previous DWI arrests wins yet another award as a boozing bozo

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From LoHud.com:

SOUTHEAST — A North Salem man with four previous drunken driving arrests drove his vehicle drunk again on Monday night, police said today.  Putnam Deputies William Meyer and Jonathan Cihanek were on patrol on Argonne Road around 8:30 p.m. Monday when they stopped car driven by Thomas J. Walsh, 51, of Sunset Place, North Salem, for a traffic violation and determined that his license was revoked and he was intoxicated, police said.   MORE

02.2
11

New York: DWI killer convicted again of DWI

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From LongIslandPress.com:

A Coram man previously imprisoned for a drunken-driving crash that killed a teenager has been convicted of his third DWI in just over 11 years.   A Suffolk County jury found Kenneth Bowrosen guilty Monday of driving while intoxicated as a felony, driving without a license and not wearing a seatbelt.
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02.2
11

New York: court orders police tape released of DWI arrest of town supervisor

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From 23East.com
Watch this tape of a town supervisor being stopped and given field sobriety test and her arrest for DWI 

02.2
11

California: Get this dummy…he ran into cop car, drunk, not once, but twice!

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From SacBee.com
A suspected drunken driver allegedly rammed an Auburn police car twice after he nearly entered the freeway in the wrong direction. 
Police said that about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, a man driving an older Chevrolet pickup northwest on Lincoln Way in Old Town Auburn failed to stop at a stop sign at Maple Street. At that point, the driver turned west onto the eastbound Interstate 80 offramp.  MORE

02.2
11

New York: man faces up to 4 years for repeat DWI

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From WatertownDailyTimes.com
A Natural Bridge man faces up to four years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in Jefferson County Court to a charge that he drove while intoxicated in June. Lee S. Arnold,50, of 43448 Strong Road, pleaded guilty to felony aggravated DWI. He admitted that he drove while intoxicated June 18 on West Street in Carthage. He is expected to be sentenced March 28 to 11/3 to 4 years in state prison. He has a previous felony DWI conviction in Genesee County Court in 2001.   MORE

02.2
11

North Carolina

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The following persons were arrested by the Rowan County NC Sheriff’s Office for DWI:

Philip Renee Sellers, 52, on 1/31/2011 at 3:28 am

Deborah Gay Rhodes, 44, on 1/27/2011 at 3:39 pm

Larry Franklin Barber, 59, on 1/25/2011 at 10:47 am

John Everett Chriscoe, 41, on 1/22/2011 at 12:26 am

David Brent Fleming, 36, on 1/17/2011 at 2:36 am

02.2
11

North Carolina

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The following persons were arrested for DWI by the Chatham County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office:
Ruth Sedon, 48, of High Point on 1/16/2011 by Cpl. Rodney West
Wade Crump, 40, of Moncure, on 1/17/2011 by Dep. Matt Morrison
Rodney McCrary, 54, of Pittsboro, on 1/11/2011 by Dep. Jonathan Moody
Robin Eisenman, 40, of Pittsboro, on 1/8/2011 by Cpl. Rodney West
Stephen Candelori, 49, of Pittsboro on 1/10/2011 by Dep. Thomas Flint
James Coppola, 26, of Pittsboro, on 12/30/2011 by Dep. John Flynn
Daniel Bledsoe, 57, of Durham, on 1/1/2011 by Dep. Ricky Culberson
Luis Mata, 48, of Siler City, on 1/1/2011 by Dep. Ricky Culberson
Sean Allen, 38, of Chapel Hill, on 1/2/2011 by Dep. Jon Purvis
Jason Leven Graham, 33, of Pittsboro, on 12/24/2010 by Dep. Charles Taylor
Carlton Morrison, 67, of Moncure, on 12/17/2011
David Harris, 54, of Raleigh, on 12/15/2010 by Dep. Colby Williams
Robert Garrison, 47, of Siler City on 12/11/2011 by Dep. Justin Fyle
Daniel Deshon, 48, of Pittsboro on 12/4/2010 by Cpl. Raymond Morgan
Jose Velasquez, 24, of Chapel Hill, on 12/5/2010 by Cpl. Raymond Morgan
Todd Wallace, 47, of Chapel Hill, on 12/2/2010 by Dep. Chris Tipton
Joseph Burke, 40, of Siler City, on 12/2/2010 by Dep. Jonathan Moody

02.2
11

North Carolina: The yearly numbers are in, and the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office made 174 Driving While Impaired arrests in 2010.

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 In 2009, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office made 121 which translates to a 67 percent increase over the past year and nearly a 500 percent increase over the last five years. Are there more intoxicated drivers on the road or is it a more concerted effort by the Sheriff’s Office to identify them? “There is no question we are focusing more on drunk drivers than ever before,” says Sheriff Richard Webster. “I have seen the destruction drunk drivers can cause and will do everything I can to get them off the road.” Sheriff Webster, a 20 year law enforcement veteran has seen many tragedies when it comes to DWI traffic fatalities. “It just does something to you when you see so much death and destruction.”

In 2009, Chatham County deputies ranked 15th out of the 100 Sheriff’s Offices in North Carolina in DWI arrests and Sheriff Webster expects that ranking to improve this year. During the month of September, 22 DWI arrests were made by Sheriff’s deputies, the highest monthly total of this year.

“Our deputies were dispatched to about 38,000 calls this year and that number has increased by several thousand every year,” said Captain Roy Allen. “We are very busy many times and it can be challenging just to get the day to day priorities done; when we see a number like 174, that’s incredible.”

The Sheriff’s Office employs a five man Criminal Enforcement Team that has been very successful in detecting drunk drivers and making numerous arrests in connection with drugs, weapons and other type offenses. This team is responsible for the two canines and is asked to assist many other divisions within the Sheriff’s Office.

“Our CET team does a great job, no question about it but our Patrol Division has also stepped up in a big way”, states Major Gary Blankenship. “With the CET team involved in a variety of investigations that assists our Narcotics and Criminal Investigation Units, we asked our Patrol Deputies to help and they have come through tremendously.”

Sheriff’s Office officials say there is no down side in getting drunk drivers off the road. Deputies obtain extensive training in the detection, apprehension, and prosecution of DWI cases. In fact, they have received nearly 1,500 hours of DWI related training over the last 4 years. They use a variety of efforts to apprehend DWI drivers, which include checkpoints, saturated patrol details and vigilant observations.

“Our deputies are some of the very best officers in the state of North Carolina and I am extremely grateful for their professionalism and commitment in all areas that we are responsible for.” concluded Sheriff Webster.