DWI Hit Parade!

The following persons were arrested for DWI by the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack:
Mynor M. B. GALVEZ, 28, of Waldorf, MD on 02/01/11 at 10:56 am by TPR. E. West
Robert W. WHITE, 50, of Owings, MD on 02/02/11 at 10:58 pm by TFC K. Donaldson
Mark M. PURSEL,39, Huntingtown, MD on 02/03/11 at 01:40 am by TFC K. Hunt
Javier WILDE, 23, of Prince Frederick, MD 02/05/11 at 11:18 pm Huntingtown, MD by TFC M. Bender
Dalton T. MACKALL, 28, of Prince Frederick on 02/06/11 at 02:25 am by TPR. W. Smith
Norman N. FLETCHER, 3rd, 41, of Huntingtown, MD on 02/06/11 at 02:49 am by CPL. M. Grimes
Kathleen A. BARNES, 50, of Dunkirk, MD on 02/07/11 at 02:41 am by TFC K. Donaldson
Robert P. HOLLAND, 19, of Prince Frederick, MD on 02/07/11 at 02:58 am by TFC M. Bender

From Rockport Pilot:
EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of ALL people arrested for the offense of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence and taken to the Aransas County Detention Center will be published. Formal charges may be made or dropped following the arrest. … MORE

From JournalGazette.net:
SANDUSKY, Ohio – Police in Ohio can’t take too much credit for stopping a woman they say was drinking and driving, because they say she pulled herself over.   Officers in the Lake Erie town of Sandusky said the woman stopped because she thought she saw police lights, but it turns out the flashing lights were from a skating rink sign.  ….MORE

From LufkinDailyNews
Let’s set aside the toasts for one week, and focus on a group of people we’d like to skewer right now: drunk drivers.
We have written often in the past several years about the stupidity of driving drunk, the prevalence of it in Texas (we’re No. 1, unfortunately) and the steps we support (sobriety checkpoints, for one) to cut down on the number of cases of driving while intoxicated. State and national governments and organizations also have preached, time and time again, the need for people to display some personal responsibility when it comes to their drinking habits, especially when they have the keys. And yet people continue to believe the law — and common sense, apparently — does not apply to them…..MORE

From 13WHAM.com:
Pittsford/Port Chester, N.Y. – The funeral for a Nazareth college student killed in a car accident will be held today in her home town of Port Chester, N.Y.    Gabrielle Acevedo, 21, was a passenger in a car that hit another head on French Road in late January. She died February 4. ….MORE

From Seacoastonline:
BRENTWOOD — A drunken Marine who rolled his truck on the Memorial Bridge during a March 2010 wind and rain storm was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail. Stephen Bolz, 23, of 6 Rogers Lane, Kittery, Maine, appeared in Rockingham County Superior Court Feb. 8 when he pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor count of aggravated driving while intoxicated. The plea was Bolz’s admission to being drunk on March 15 at about 1 a.m. when he rolled over and totaled his Chevrolet pickup truck, then was unable to offer an explanation. …MORE

The following persons were arrested for DWI and jailed in Hennepin County Minnesota Jail:
John William Atkin, 31, on 2/2/2011 at 2:48 pm by New Hope Police Department
Gina Caroline Anderson, 30, on 2/2/2011 at 11:27 am by Minnesota State Police (refused test)
Matthew Allen Anderson, 45, on 1/31/2011 at 1:39 am by Minneapolis Police Department
Matthew Frank Anderson, 42, on 2/8/2011 at 10:19 am by Golden Valley Police Department (refused test)
Joel Michael Andrewjeski, 61, on 1/21/2011 at 8:42 am by Brooklyn Ctr Police Dept.
Patrick Mark Audette, 27, on 2/6/2011 at 3:36 am by Minneapolis Police Dept.
Lawrence Kelly Austin, 43, on 1/31/2011 at 10:21 pm by Orono Police Dept.
Chad Lawrance Bachmeir, 39, on 2/24/2010 at 10:51 am by Bloomington Police Dept.
Shane Jared Beckman, 34, on 11/15/2010 at 10:03 am by Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (refused test)

From LoHud.com
• Dona L. Rintelman, 48, of Southbury, Conn., was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, around 5:30 p.m. Monday on Interstate 84 in Bedford. Police said her blood-alcohol level was 0.22 percent and that she was ordered to appear in Bedford Town Court on Feb. 17.
• Laura A. Selvaggi, 48, of Goldens Bridge was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and refusing to submit to alcohol screening, an infraction, around 5:20 p.m. Monday after she was in an accident on Route 22 in North Salem.  …MORE

From MyFoxTwinCities.com

According to the criminal complaint, Golden Valley police officers were called to Duluth Street and Highway 100 around 12:57 a.m. Thursday on a report of a vehicle that had run off the road and into a ditch. Responding officers found tracks in the snow that went over the corner of the intersection, across the westbound lanes, onto the median, over a sidewalk, across the eastbound lanes and onto a curb, and finally down and up the side of a ditch.  ….MORE

From KSTP.com:
Rogers Assistant Fire Chief Jason Hines made his first court appearance Friday on charges of driving drunk in connection with a December incident. The 40-year old Hines appeared in Hennepin County Court on two charges of 2nd degree D.W.I. …. MORE