DWI Hit Parade!

 From McAlster News Capital

Charles S. Leeper, 34, McAlester, pleaded guilty Aug. 3 to charges of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and failure to stop at a red light. He was fined $650 and sentencing was deferred for three years.
 Gregory Goosby, 51, Spencer, pleaded guilty Aug. 6 to charges of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and driving without a driver’s license. He was fined $930, ordered to complete DUI school, ordered to use an interlock device for six months and sentencing was deferred for six months. Charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication were dismissed.
• Norman C. Nunn, 46, Memphis, Tenn., pleaded guilty Aug. 6 to charges of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, transporting an opened container of beer and driving without a valid driver’s license. He was fined $1,460, ordered to complete DUI school, ordered to use an interlock device for one year and received a one-year suspended sentence.
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Early traffic counts suggest that crowds for the 2012 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally are up from last year. KEVN television reports (http://bit.ly/Nor7zC) that more than 416,000 vehicles entered Sturgis Friday through Wednesday, up 7.9 percent from last year.The busiest traffic day of the rally so far was last Saturday.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says it has made 198 DUI arrests district-wide so far as of Friday morning. Authorities have made 134 misdemeanor and 23 felony drug arrests, and the patrol has issued almost 900 total citations. http://www.kevn.com

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From Times Standard
A former Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder for his alleged role in a DUI motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a 30-year-old Eureka native.
The California Attorney General’s Office filed charges of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated Friday against Michael Joseph Campbell, 41, who worked as a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputy for 15 years before retiring in 2010.
Police allege Campbell was under the influence on March 1 when the motorcycle he was driving fell into a slide on Eureka’s Waterfront Drive shortly before 1 a.m. Cara Banducci — Campbell’s passenger — suffered major head and neck injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead the following day.
A blood draw taken from Campbell shortly after the crash found his blood alcohol level to be above the legal limit, according to Eureka Police Department Detective Ron Harpham.
Because Banducci worked for the Humboldt County District Attorney’s ….MORE

Adam Close

From Mercury News
The driver accused of hitting and killing a 65-year-old Milpitas resident in a traffic collision on Aug. 3 has been charged with vehicular manslaughter, after his arrest on drunken-driving charges.
Milpitas Police Department officials Thursday night announced the arrest of Adam Kimball Close, 23, of Milpitas.
Officers conducted a drunken-driving investigation after the crash and determined the driver had been driving under the influence of alcohol. He was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter.
The fatal accident occurred just before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Jacklin Road and Hamilton Avenue, south of Nob Hill Foods.
The driver of a white Mitsubishi Galant, 65-year-old Milpitas resident Than Thanh Le, ….MORE

From Halifax Courier
A woman turned to the bottle and crashed her car into a pub after a failed romance, Calderdale magistrates heard.
Nicola Milner, 34, of Claremount Road, Boothtown, Halifax, admitted drink-driving.
She had 122 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
Her Renault Clio crashed into the Flying Dutchman at Boothtown Road, Boothtown, around 9 pm on July 26.
Vanessa Schofield, prosecuting, said officers spoke to her at the scene and Milner said: “I had a big session yesterday.” ….MORE

From Winnepeg Free Press
A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to four months in jail for a drunken car crash that injured a young woman.
Gordon Scully pleaded guilty last month to impaired driving causing bodily harm in the 2010 incident. He returned to court Friday to learn his fate.
Scully, 46, was seeking a fine, citing several other case precedents where such a penalty was imposed. The Crown asked for a much stiffer sentence of six months in jail, an 18-month driving prohibition and one year of supervised probation. They called Scully a “potential killer on the road” who was in a state of “extreme intoxication” at the time of his arrest.
Provincial court Judge Tracey Lord ultimately decided that custody was needed to send a strong message to the public.
Scully has no previous criminal record and is otherwise a model citizen, court was told. He was driving home from a night at the bar when he slammed into the victim’s car on Kernaghan Avenue ….MORE

Charles L. Smith  (Henrico Police)

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From WTVR
HENRICO COUNTY, VA (WTVR) – A Henrico judged sentenced a Sandston man to 26 years in jail after he killed a woman in a drunk driving accident. Most of Charles L. Smith Jr.’s 26-year sentence was suspended, meaning he’ll end up spending seven and half years locked up.
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Cameron Cole Thomas
From Shreveport Times
Bossier City police arrested a suspected drunk driver Thursday night in a south Bossier City neighborhood after he crashed his pickup truck into three vehicles, a garage and a fire hydrant while knocking over a few garbage containers and street signs.
Patrol officers arrested Cameron Cole Thomas, 22, of Sibley for hit and run and DWI after being called to the Savannah Place subdivision just after 9 p.m. in regard to an out of control hit and run pickup truck. When officers arrived on the scene they found the driver of the truck, later identified as Thomas, being detained by local residents.
Witnesses told police Thomas was driving his truck recklessly  …..MORE