DWI Hit Parade!

From The Republican
UPDATE: Perez denied the charges against him during his arraignment in Springfield District Court and was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 cash bail
SPRINGFIELD — Police Officer David Starr, run down by an allegedly fleeing suspect driving drunk on Orange Street late Monday morning, is recuperating at home from his injuries.
“He has no broken bones, maybe a torn meniscus,” Sgt. John M. Delaney said of an injury to the 16-year veteran’s knee. “He is going to be out for a while, he is in a lot of pain.”
Starr, who recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan as a reservist in the U.S. Army, was injured, ironically enough, on the observance of Veterans Day, Delaney said.
Siloe Perez, 24, of 316 Orange St., stopped by police a short time later, is slated to be arraigned in District Court on Tuesday on drunken driving, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pickup truck) and other charges.
“The guy was drinking a Bud Light,” Delaney said of Perez. “The (pickup) was full of Bud Lights.”  ….MORE

Robert Bregenzer, 33, of Knorr Street near Hawthorne. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter, homicide by vehicle and related offenses.

From Philly Confidential / Philly.com
Police have arrested a city man, suspected of driving drunk or high, in an overnight wreck in Castor that left two people dead.
The man, 33, was driving a 2001 Yukon east on St. Vincent Street just before 12:30 a.m. when he allegedly blew through a red light and T-boned a Honda Accord that was heading south on Bustleton Avenue, said Sgt. Joseph Rossa of the Accident Investigation District. The impact pushed the Accord into a Jeep Cherokee northbound on Bustleton, Rossa added.
Two people in the Accord died on the scene, and the Jeep driver, an off-duty police lieutenant headed home after work, suffered minor injuries, Rossa said. ….MORE

From WAVY
WAYNESBORO, Va. (Nov. 13, 2012) – When Waynesboro officers went to question a suspected DUI driver Sunday afternoon, they didn’t just smell alcohol, they also smelled skunk.
According to Sgt. Brian Edwards with the Waynesboro Police Department, a witness driving along Interstate 64 saw a 1990 Chevrolet Lumina strike a guardrail but did not stop. The witness reported the driver continued driving erratically.
Police found the suspect and his vehicle in a Plaza Azteca parking lot on Windigrove Drive around 2:30 p.m. Once officers approached the vehicle, driven by Efrain Moreno Alvarez, 40, they smelled a strong odor …MORE

Once Ken decided to chronicle the goings-on in St. Mary’s County, MD, it was all over for the good old boys.
Until St. Mary’s Today hit the news stands, the surface tranquility of Maryland’s Mother County was protected by the complete lack of anything even resembling good news reporting. Gannett newspapers had an iron grip on the local newspapers, and their philosophy was always to make the advertisers look as good as possible with no regard for what was newsworthy. I know, because I worked for that chain in those days.
Ken and I were soldiers on the same battlefield in Southern Maryland. The weekly tabloid I started on my kitchen table, The Chesapeake Observer, took neighboring Calvert County by storm. We were the most-read newspaper in the area within six months of our start-up. This didn’t sit well with the two other papers in town, The Prince Frederick Recorder (my former employer) or The Calvert Independent. They mocked our tabloid format and they were horrified at our aggressive reporting, even as their advertisers fled their broadsheet pages for ours.
At the time, Ken was publishing a small, touristy weekly called The Blue Crab,, an 8 1/2 by 11 offset press publication stuffed full of local lore and, most importantly, local advertising. I picked up several copies of it one day and took them back to The Observer offices. Handing them out to my advertising staff, I said, “This could put us out of business.” I decided then to arrange a meeting with Ken, and discovered he and I were kindred souls.
The Story of The Rag is a true, unvarnished account of one man’s struggle to just print the truth. That may not sound heroic, but from personal experience, I can tell you that it very often really does involve acts of heroism. I saw Ken working 20-hour days, doing the jobs of reporter, editor, composition and layout, delivery and bookkeeping all at once. He was also a single father, devoted son, and good friend to a lot of people.
Everyone should read this book. It starkly portrays the real news papering world, as well as exposes the real world of political deal-making and corruption that remains Maryland’s hallmark to this day.
I read it in one very long sitting, because I couldn’t put it down. And it made me proud.

From The Washington Examiner
In the past three and a half years, more than 90 D.C. police officers — from detectives to captains to the rank-and-file cops on the street — have been arrested, a Washington Examiner analysis of police data has revealed.
Metropolitan Police Department officers have been nabbed within the District and as far away as Florida. They’ve been arrested on charges ranging from to child pornography to murder. The majority are DUI and domestic violence arrests, though some cases stand out.  ….MORE

From TBO
A Lakeland woman has been charged with driving under the influence manslaughter in a fatal crash that occurred in September, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Kiesha Lacole Montoya, 26, had a blood alcohol level of 0.210, according to FHP. In Florida, a driver is considered impaired with a blood alcohol level of .08. Montoya was also charged with driving under the influence property damage, FHP said.  …MORE