Archive for August 4th, 2012

08.4
12

Florida: drunk driver piloting pickup truck smashes into car at intersection; tackled by witness and held for cops

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Drunk driving crash, aftermath caught on tape

A drunk driver in Florida collides with a delivery car at an intersection– the crash and its aftermath all caught on this dramatic video. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown reports.
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08.4
12

Utah: Dopey Judge lets boozing bozo free out of jail following three DUI arrests in 45 hours! Lawyer says he ain’t convicted of anything yet! Daniel Kropf also hasn’t killed anyone yet! With any luck he could kill the lawyer or the judge…

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From Salt Lake Tribune
A St. George man spent the past 24 days in jail after three DUI arrests in less than 45 hours, but a judge agreed to reduce his bail to $30,000, and 41-year-old Daniel Kropf was released from the jail after payment on Friday afternoon.
Kropf was booked in the Cache County jail on an enhanced third-degree felony charge of driving under the influence. The judge decided to not allow bail until his initial appearance on July 16. But that was delayed until a preliminary hearing on Thursday. ….MORE
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08.4
12

New York: Utica firefighter Travis Maurine moved his injured girlfriend’s body in attempt to frame her for crash; he gets six months in Oneida County jail — Kate Rizzo is now his ex-girlfriend

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From UticaOD.com
UTICA — Utica firefighter Travis Maurine of Waterville,was sentenced to six months in Oneida County jail and five years probation Friday morning for a 2010 drunk driving accident
Maruine, 25, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree vehicular assault and third-degree assault in connection to the two-car accident that seriously injured his then-girlfriend,
Kate Rizzo, on Dec. 18, 2010, on Route 233.
Maurine attempted to frame Rizzo, 24, of Waterville by moving her body from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat after the crash, prosecutors claimed.
Maurine’s driver’s license will be revoked for a year, and he will have to use an anti-DWI interlock ignition device to start his vehicle, said Assistant District Attorney Joseph Saba.
Assistant District Attorney Stacey Paolozzi ….MORE
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08.4
12

Pennsylvania: hell-hole bar that served drunk who killed Officer Brian Lorenzo is sued by cop’s widow

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From Philly.com
The widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Brian Lorenzo is suing the Bensalem T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant that served alcohol to the wrong-way driver who allegedly struck and killed him last month.
Also named as defendants in the suit, filed late Thursday afternoon in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, is the restaurant’s parent company, Carlson, and John D. Leck Jr., identified as the driver of the Audi A6 that struck and killed Lorenzo on July 8.
Leck, 47, of Levittown, drank “at least six alcoholic beverages,” including three 22-ounce Coors Lights, one 14-ounce Coors Light, and two vodka drinks, at the Friday’s on Street Road, according to the suit.
“Leck left the T.G.I. Friday’s so drunk that he has no recollection of where he went afterward, until he, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.218, killed Officer Lorenzo,” the suit states.
According to police, Leck was driving south on northbound lanes of I-95 at 3:13 a.m. when his Audi collided with a police motorcycle being ridden by Lorenzo, 48, just south of Cottman Avenue.
Lorenzo, a 23-year veteran of the force assigned to the Highway Patrol Unit, had just finished a shift and was riding to his home in the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia when he was killed.   ….MORE
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08.4
12

Texas: video released of drunk driving vehicle through convenience store

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Video of drunk driving crash into convenience store

From KBTX