DWI Hit Parade!

Photo courtesy of Kirkland Patch
From Bellevue Patch
Kelly Ann Hudson of Kirkland pleaded “absolutely not guilty” Thursday to charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in a fatal head-on crash along Juanita Drive that injured an 86-year-old Bellevue man and killed his 81-year-old sister.In an unusual request, Hudson’s lawyer, Scott E. Wonder, asked and was allowed by Judge Ronald Kessler to shield Hudson’s face from media cameras with a thin sheet of Styrofoam during her arraignment in Seattle’s King County Superior Court.
Wonder said Hudson, who remains in King County Jail on $500,000 bond, was concerned that her three children would see her on television or in the newspaper. Wearing orange jail clothing, the thin, blond Hudson walked in with Wonder holding up the sheet of Styrofoam. She then stood before Kessler and said in a clear voice, “Absolutely not guilty,” when he asked for her plea.
Hudson is charged with one count of vehicular homicide …..MORE
Hudson’s wobbling highway party-time ended when she crossed center-line and hit victims head on!

Deon Nero

RIDE WITH A DRUNK DRIVER; BUY A TICKET TO YOUR OWN FUNERAL
From Post and Courier
The driver of a Chevrolet Blazer involved in a fatal wreck this morning has been charged with felony driving under the influence.
The vehicle rear-ended a street sweeper about 2 a.m. while headed west on Dorchester Road near Ceder Grove Subdivision, North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said.
Three people were riding in the vehicle. Police arrested the driver Deon Bernard Nero, 26, of West Blue Grass Drive at the scene. The vehicle’s front passenger died at the scene from massive face and head trauma. Dorchester County Coroner Christopher Nisbet identified the dead man as the suspect’s father Gleefus Nero, 58. ….MORE

From Elko Daily News
ELKO — Amidst tearful pleas for leniency from his parents, a drunken driver convicted of killing his brother in a 2010 crash south of West Wendover was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday.
District Judge Nancy Porter sentenced Kevin M. Naranjo, 24, to the maximum 144 months and a $2,000 fine for the July 26 crash that killed his brother and injured a friend.
Naranjo’s parents both took the stand to deliver statements before Porter announced the sentence.
“We all have to make mistakes, and sometimes it takes a long time to learn from them and sometimes we have to learn the hard way,” Phyllis Naranjo, Kevin Naranjo’s mother, said through heavy tears.
“I believe what happened two years ago was an accident. I believe my son has suffered enough after losing his brother.”
Porter cited Naranjo’s second DUI arrest, which came after the incident that killed his brother, for the reasoning behind her maximum sentence.
“We have to consider the protection of society, and while your parents don’t have to hold you accountable for the death of your brother, the State of Nevada does,” Porter said.
Naranjo, of Ibapah, Utah, had ….MORE

Del. Don Dwyer

From The Baltimore Sun
Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. said Thursday that he had been drinking alcohol when a motorboat he was operating collided with another boat in the Magothy River — an accident that left six people with serious injuries.
In a brief news conference outside a Baltimore hospital, the Pasadena Republican said his blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.2 percent after Wednesday’s crash. The legal limit is .08, according to state law.
“I deeply regret my actions and ask for your forgiveness,” Dwyer said, adding that no one should operate a car or boat while under the influence of alcohol. He said his thoughts are with the others injured in the collision…..MORE

This is the boat Del. Dwyer hit, his boat sank.   Photo courtesy of NBC 4 News, Washington

From  KXLY
SPOKANE, Wash. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, one of the most decorated State Department diplomats in the last half century, was arrested on August 14 by the Washington State Patrol for hit-and-run and DUI in Spokane Valley.
A Spokane native, Crocker, 63, was arrested at the intersection of Sprague Ave. and Pines Road at 2:05 p.m. on August 14 by a WSP trooper. According to the State Patrol, Crocker was in a left hand lane on Pines turning onto Sprague when he tried to turn right, crossed two lanes of traffic and clipped a semi, damaging the passenger side of the 2009 Ford Mustang he was driving.
The driver of the semi was uninjured.
An eyewitness to the incident followed Crocker and forwarded information about it on to authorities.
Crocker was pulled over, taken into custody and transported to the Spokane Valley Precinct where he received a sobriety test. He had a .16 BAC ….MORE