DWI Hit Parade!

From Portland Tribune
Oregon State Police arrested a Milwaukie-area man after his pickup seriously injured a West Linn woman on Saturday night on Highway 99E in Oak Grove.
According to Trooper Ted Moisan, on Nov. 10, at approximately 7:55 p.m., a 2007 Ford F150 pickup driven by Michael John Dec, 66, was headed northbound on McLoughlin Boulevard and attempted to turn left across the southbound lanes when it collided nearly head-on with a southbound 2007 Subaru Legacy station wagon driven by Cathy A. Bennett, 59, from West Linn.
A nearby pedestrian was hit by vehicle debris and also injured.

Dec

Dec was transported to Kaiser  ….MORE

From Salt Lake Tribune
Days after one man began the process of suing Lisa Steed, four more people have announced their intention to go after the beleaguered Utah Highway Patrol trooper.
Jason Holt, Cortney Feragen, Andie Snyder and Shadoe Snyder all took the first step on Friday toward a lawsuit against Steed for allegedly violating their rights when she tested them for being intoxicated, which led to criminal charges against them. Clifford Ray started the same kind of lawsuit against the trooper earlier this week.
All five are seeking $250,000. Michael Studebaker, the attorney representing all of them, would also like to see overturned convictions for the three clients who were found guilty.
Whether they are found convicted on Steed’s charges or not, the court process “can become time intensive and costly… it wears down these people,” Studebaker said.  …MORE

From KTRK
HOUSTON (Nov. 11, 2012) — A woman was dead Saturday after an argument with her reportedly intoxicated ex-boyfriend, officials said.
It happened around 3:30am at the intersection of Lindell and Spring Crossing in north Harris County.
Residents living on the street were up early Saturday morning. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office deputies say an altercation between an on-again-off-again couple took a deadly turn overnight.
“I came out and I saw the cops over there and the guy was telling me this guy ran over his girlfriend with his Jeep,” neighbor Saad Asif said.
According to deputies, the couple involved had been arguing throughout the night prior to the woman’s death.
“Upon arriving out on the location, we learned there was a little more to it,” said Lt. Wayne Schultz with Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office. “There had been a domestic disturbance that kind of escalated from there.”
Deputies said the ex-boyfriend, identified as Jeremy Stanford ….MORE

From Examiner.com

Nassau County policeofficer was injured after an alleged drunk driver rammed into a patrol car in Massapequa on Friday night, police said.
Thomas Tighe, 48, of Massapequa was driving a 2012 Lincoln MKT crossover SUV around 7:55 p.m., Friday night, cops said. Tighe allegedly struck a Nassau County Police patrol vehicle, which was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Hicksville and Merrick roads.
A female police officer ….MORE

Tyrone Allen Stokes

From Chicago Tribune
Charges have been filed against the Far South Side man who was driving a sport utility vehicle when he crashed into a pickup truck on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Saturday, killing the pickup’s driver, police said.
Tyrone Allen Stokes, 42, of the 10200 block of South Carpenter Street, was charged with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol in the death of a man identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Phillip Briner, 21, of Crown Point, Ind., Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
Stokes was ordered held in lieu of $450,000 bail in a midday hearing in Cook County Bond Court today.
Stokes submitted to standard field sobriety tests administered by troopers on the scene and his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.106, more than the legal limit of 0.08, according to a police report.
Stokes was behind the wheel of a red 2002 GMC that crashed into a pickup truck being driven by Briner early Saturday morning on the ….MORE

The following persons were charged with DWI by the El Paso, Texas Police Department:

Maria Rios on 11/9/12

Javier Campos on 11/8/12

Cesar King on 11/8/12

Frank Paiz DWI 2^ND on 11/8/2012

Miquel Salazar on 11/7/12

Robert Torres on 11/7/12

Alberto Ontiveros on 11/6/12

Sara Ramirez on 11/6/12

Dagoberto Tepezano on 11/6/12

Nathaniel Campos on 11/5/12

Ivan Fierro on 11/5/12

Steven Valdez on 11/4/12

Ramiro Garcia on 11/3/12

Susana Guerra on 11/3/12

Cesar Galindo on 11/2/12

Cesar Gavlan on 11/2/12

Edgar Herrera on 11/2/12

Manuel Cabral on 11/1/12

Bruce Moreno on 11/1/12

Raul Perez on 11/1/12

Caitlin Wilkinson on 11/1/12

Brian Bradby on 10/31/12

Juan Martinez DWI 2^nd on 10/31/12

Gerardo Perez on 10/31/12

Now retired from the St.  Mary’s County, Maryland, Sheriff’s Department, Cpl. Oliver “Skip” Stewart was for much of his time on the agency, assigned to work alcohol enforcement.  In that job Stewart worked with beverage retailers to tighten up and reduce sales of alcohol to minors.  The effort was successful in many ways and was coordinated with the Project Graduation program which was started by St. Mary’s County States Attorney Walter B. Dorsey.   

In this photo, Cpl. Stewart is participating in a sobriety checkpoint near the Gov. Thomas Johnson Bridge on Rt. 4 in St. Mary’s County, Md.