DWI Hit Parade!

From ABC News
During her 10 years as a Utah state trooper, Lisa Steed built a reputation as an officer with a knack for nabbing drunken motorists in a state with a long tradition of tee totaling and some of the nation’s strictest liquor laws.
Steed used the uncanny talent — as one supervisor once described it — to garner hundreds of arrests, setting records, earning praise as a rising star and becoming the first woman to become trooper of the year.
Today, however, Steed is out of work, fired from the Utah Highway Patrol, and she — and her former superiors — are facing a lawsuit in which some of those she arrested allege she filed bogus DUI reports.
“If we don’t stand up to Lisa Steed or law enforcement, they just pull people over for whatever reason they want,” said attorney Michael Studebaker.
Steed declined to comment, but her attorney Greg Skordas said she denies the allegations. She is trying to get her job back.
The people snared by Steed say the arrests disrupted their lives and were costly to resolve.
Michael Choate, a now ….MORE

RIDE WITH A DRUNK DRIVER, BUY A TICKET TO YOUR OWN FUNERAL
From Laramie Boomerang
A single-vehicle rollover in Salt Lake County left one man dead and another in jail on suspicion of driving under the influence.
The Utah Highway Patrol says 22-year-old Joshua Wallace of West Jordan was pronounced dead at the scene of the late Saturday night accident.
Troopers say he was a passenger in a car en route to Salt Lake City after a Megadeth concert at Saltair when the driver lost control on a curve on State Route
202 and crashed.  ….MORE

12/02/2012 76.5.207.1.B Automobile homicide; 12/02/2012 41.6a.503.2.a DUI causing serious bodily injury  

 12/02/2012 58.37.8.2.A.III Marijuana – possession; 12/02/2012 58.37a.3.12.A Poss drug paraphernalia (drug pipe)  

 12/02/2012 41.6A.710.1.a Fail to Operate Within 1 Lane; 125002128 12/02/2012 12.48.080 Drive Around/Under Gates at Railroad Crossing

 101904196 12/02/2012 76.6.106.2.B Criminal Mischief  From Salt Lake City Sheriff’s Office booking records

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 ABC 4 Salt Lake
LINDON, Utah (ABC 4 News) – One person was killed and another injured after a crash involving a suspected intoxicated driver Friday morning.
The Utah Highway Patrol said the crash happened Friday at around 1:09 a.m. on Interstate 15 near Lindon.
UHP troopers say two people were on the motorcycle when it was hit.
Troopers say the passenger was thrown from the Kawasaki motorcycle, was then run over by other cars and died at the ….MORE

From KSL
PLEASANT GROVE — The Utah Highway Patrol believes DUI and speed were factors in a deadly crash on I-15 near Lindon early this morning.
It happened just after midnight when a southbound silver Mitsubishi rear-ended a motorcycle carrying two people.
Lt. Rich Christianson said, “Both of them had their helmets on. They appear to be coming home from work, co-workers.”
The impact caused the motorcycle to crash. The passenger, Juan Ernesto Salazar Conce, 31, of Orem, landed in traffic and was hit by several cars. He died on scene.
The motorcycle driver, Irving Tellez Acevedo, 23, of Spanish Fork, was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in critical condition.
The driver of the car, Tyler Young, 27, of Provo, was not injured. He was arrested for investigation of DUI and automobile homicide. Troopers say they found prescription pill bottles and evidence of alcohol use in his car.
“We’ve taken his blood and we’ll have to wait for the results to come back on that to see what his levels are,” Christianson said. “But he appears to be impaired, and it looks to be the contributing factor in this case.”   …..MORE

Chino DUI checkpoint on Saturday

Newtown Cops to Hold DUI Checkpoint

Patch.com – ‎Aug 29, 2012‎

Newtown Township police will be conducting a DUI checkpoint at an undisclosed location inside their jurisdiction on Friday. In a statement released this week, police officials said they would did not disclose the time and location of the checkpoint

The following report from the Utah Highway Patrol:
The week ending Feb. 17, 2011, the DUI Squad accomplished the following:
Vehicle Stops: 124
DUI Arrests: 23
Drug Arrests: 11
Not a Drop Arrests: 4
Open Containers: 2
Alcohol Restricted: 2
Alcohol Revoked: 1
10-80 (High speed chase) /Felony Arrest: 1 (Trp. Z. Randall)
The DUI Squad also assisted Section 2 troopers and the Alcohol Enforcement Team during the “Dew Tour”, an outdoor concert. The combined enforcement efforts resulted in 12 DUI arrests and 4 vehicle impounds for street racing.
On February 12, 2011, troopers from the DUI squad were also involved in a vehicle pursuit at approximately 0130 hours, following the outdoor concert.
A trooper initiated the pursuit when a small blue passenger car fled from an attempted traffic stop in Ogden. The pursuit was brought to an end when the trooper pitted the vehicle near Adams and 24th Street. The intoxicated female driver and male passenger were both apprehended.