DWI Hit Parade!

From ABCNewspapers
A 24-year-old Andover man faces three criminal charges in Anoka County District Court for allegedly being drunk when he ran into a home and injured a passenger.
Brendon Edward Rudolph, 2312 South Coon Creek Drive N.W., was arraigned July 12 on gross misdemeanor charges of criminal vehicular operation under the influence of alcohol, second-degree driving while impaired (DWI) and second-degree refusal to submit to chemical testing.
According to the criminal complaint, Anoka County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted July 10 at 8:30 p.m. that a vehicle had struck a house at the corner of Round Lake Boulevard and 134th Avenue in Andover at a high rate of speed.  Cmdr. Paul Sommer of the sheriff’s ….MORE

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Prosecutor Thom Pertler held on DWI charges in St. Louis County jail.
photo courtesy of St. Louis County
From StarTribune
Carlton County Attorney Thom Pertler was arrested Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of drunken driving and was booked into the St. Louis County Jail.
Pertler was pulled over as he entered Duluth on state Highway 61 after authorities received reports of a possible drunken driver, according to state and county law enforcement officials.
“I can tell you that we received a couple of driving complaints on him,” State Patrol Sgt. Curt Mowers said at 2:30 p.m. “A trooper found him and stopped him based on the driver’s conduct. … He was arrested.”
Mowers said the traffic stop was made at 12:30 p.m. on Highway 61 in St. Louis County. St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman said a member of his office told him Pertler was southbound on Highway 61 when someone in the Knife River area reported he was driving erratically. He said the traffic stop was made at 61st Avenue East in Duluth near the Lester River.
Pertler, 47, is being held in the St. Louis County Jail on charges of refusing to submit to a chemical test of his blood, breath or urine, a gross misdemeanor, and fourth-degree driving while impaired, a misdemeanor…..MORE

From KRQE
 Albuquerque – An 83-year-old Albuquerque man was arrested for DWI for the 11th time last week after being found passed out in his truck.
He was then caught driving his truck the next day even though his license has been revoked since 1999.
A friend of Manuel Pacheco called deputies on July 10 saying that Pacheco had left his house driving drunk, nearly hitting a mailbox in the process.
Deputies say they later found Pacheco at a Paradise Hills park passed out in the driver’s seat of his truck.  The keys were still in the ignition and miniatures of vodka were in the passenger seat.
Deputies say when they tried to arrest Pacheco he complained of chest pains, so instead of being taken to jail he was taken to the hospital
while his truck was towed. ….MORE

From HuffingtonPost
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A Long Island man who prosecutors say had a blood-alcohol reading four times the legal limit and approached speeds of 100 mph before crashing into a car driven by a recent high school graduate was charged Wednesday with her murder.
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota noted that the charge, based on indifference to human life, is a rarity and said it was the first time in his 11-year tenure as chief prosecutor that he sought a grand jury indictment for murder in a drunken driving case.
Michael Grasing, 31, pleaded not guilty after an 11-count indictment was unsealed in the death of 18-year-old Brittney Walsh. He stood handcuffed with his hands trembling during the brief arraignment but didn’t speak; his attorney entered the plea for him. He was ordered held on $1 million bail. The attorney, Daniel Russo, declined to speak with reporters after the proceeding.
“Brittney Walsh never had a chance,” Spota said afterward, with the teenager’s family standing behind him. “Grasing clearly had a total
disregard for the value of any human life.”  ….MORE