DWI Hit Parade!

From Burlington Free Press
Vermont State Police said Sunday that they had a busy weekend with six driving under the influence arrests in six hours, including two by a single trooper in two hours.
Trooper Davis Shaffer said Tonja Picknell, 30, of Canaan, N.H., crashed her Ford Focus at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday on the southbound on-ramp of exit 11 of Interstate 91 in Hartford. She is due in court in Hartford on Feb. 14.
Two hours earlier, Shaffer arrested Adam O’Donnell, 29, of Thetford Center on a DUI charge, police said. Shaffer said O’Donnell failed to stop for a stop sign on Lake Morey Road in Fairlee. He is due in court in Chelsea on Feb. 15.
Howard Johnson, 56, of Burlington was stopped ….MORE

From Times Tribune
A Knox County constable was arrested and charged with driving under the influence early Friday, during a traffic stop just after midnight.
According to the Kentucky State Police Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, 5th District Constable Carl Bolton, 50, of Woodbine, was driving east on the Corbin Bypass (KY 3041) in Whitley County. KVE Officer Mike Hamblin made the arrest after watching Bolton’s late-model Jeep Wrangler crossing the center line three times. …MORE

LEONARDTOWN, MD – The Maryland State Police report the following arrests of persons who failed to appear in court to face DUI charges: On Friday, January 27, 2012 at 1:50pm, TFC G. A. Thompson served a Bench Warrant  on Nathan Jered Mowrer, 25, of Abell. The warrant was issued on September 21, 2011 by the District Court of St. Mary’s County with an original charge of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol. Mr. Mowrer was located at the St. Mary’s County Detention Center and served pending a bond review with the District Court Commissioner.
On Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 11:30pm, Tpr. E. T. Reuschling served a Bench Warrant  on Leroy Michael Sandy, 49, of Waldorf. The warrant was issued on September 16, 2011 with an original charge of Driving Under the Influence by the District Court of Charles County. Mr. Sandy was located and transported to the St. Mary’s County Detention Center where he was served and held pending a bond review with the District Court Commissioner.

From The State
ON I-20 GOING EAST AT 100 MPH — “Here’s your roller coaster, guys!” Kershaw County Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Scott Myers said as his 2011 unmarked Dodge Charger rose up over a rise in the road.
At a normal speed, say 75 mph, the bump wouldn’t be noticeable. But at 100 mph, which Myers was doing to catch up to a driver who’d been following another car too closely, the car seemed to lift into the air.
“I’m not using my blue lights because I don’t want people to panic and get out of the way real quick,” Myers said. ….MORE

The following persons were booked into the Jackson County Oregon Sheriff’s Jail on charges of DUI:

Michael Wayne Acrey, 55, on 1/21/2012 by MFC (fail to appear DUI $10,000 bail)

Emanuel Enoch Aguilar-Pickard, 27, by MFC on 12/24/11 (fail to appear DUI $50,000 bail)

Lee Robert Beebe, 43, by MFP on 1/28/2012

Elizabeth Delores Bostwick-Silvagni, 50, on 1/28/2012 by MFP

From KSTW
Authorities say Anthony Aubry was behind the wheel when his vehicle collided with another car carrying five people.
He was booked into Imperial County Jail yesterday and is facing gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated charges and a felony charge for drunk driving…..MORE

 Photo of deadly scene from Imperial Press Valley Online

From Grand Junction Sentinel
Rep. Laura Bradford temporarily was removed as chairwoman of a House committee Friday pending a legislative investigation into a “traffic citation” she received Wednesday, the Colorado House Republican leadership said.
The Collbran Republican, who is chairwoman of the House Local Government Committee, received a traffic ticket on suspicion of improper turning and an illegal lane change,
Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson said.
Jackson said the officer who stopped Bradford at about 10 p.m. Wednesday could smell alcohol on her breath and gave her a roadside sobriety test.
The officer didn’t give the lawmaker a citation for driving under the influence of alcohol because that would have required police to detain her, which is against the law, he said. Jackson said the most police could do was issue Bradford a traffic citation for the moving violations, lock her car and send her on her way.
“You can’t prove DUI unless you can do blood (test) for alcohol or breath (test) on someone, and we were not able to do that,” Jackson said. “It was determined that she was a state legislator, and by state law, you’re not allowed to detain a state legislator going to and from the Capitol.” ….MORE
Lawmaker busted as committee chairwoman by Speaker; she invoked legislative immunity, told cop she was coming from legislative function

From Burlington Free Press
A Waterbury woman whom police arrested on suspicion of drunken driving while she was on her way to her state job two months ago, has been arrested on a new DUI charge shortly after leaving work, public records allege.
Sheila Voyer, 48, who works at the Vermont Health Access Department on Hurricane Lane in Williston, has been ordered to appear Feb. 9 in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington to face the new DUI charge, police said. ….MORE

From Atlanta Journal Constitution:
The Stone Mountain woman accused of being drunk when her car slammed into and killed an Atlanta police officer has been cited six times for traffic violations in five years, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office said Thursday.
Chasity Nicole Jones, 22, will remain in the Fulton County jail for at least the next two weeks after a Fulton County magistrate judge refused to grant bond at a court appearance Thursday morning. Jones was charged with felony first-degree vehicular homicide as well as two misdemeanors, driving under the influence and failure to yield to person authorized to direct traffic following the death of Senior Officer Gail Thomas.
Jones was in a jail courtroom Thursday, where Fulton Magistrate Judge Jessy Lall set bond at $15,000 on the two misdemeanors, but refused to allow bond on the vehicular homicide charge.  ….MORE

From WLTX
Lexington County, SC (WLTX) – Charges have been downgraded in a fatal car crash from last October that left two children dead.
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety says Robert Craft of Pelion now is charged with DUI second degree. He was originally charged with felony DUI resulting in death.
Back on October 28th, troopers say Craft was driving down SC 6 near Foxborough Boulevard when he collided with another vehicle. Inside the other car were 10-year-old Haley Upchurch and 7-year-old Cameron Upchurch. ….MORE