DWI Hit Parade!

When is the only time a politician will keep quiet?  When they have been arrested for DUI…

Treasurer Richard Homes

From News Virginian
Augusta County Treasurer Richard Homes has been charged with driving while intoxicated first offense in Harrisonburg and is set to be in court on the case Nov. 15.
Homes is serving his third term as treasurer. The Virginia State Police charged Homes after he was stopped in Harrisonburg on the night of Oct. 5.
When contacted on Wednesday, Homes said only that the “case is being handled by the judicial system and my attorney has advised me to stay quiet.”
Sgt. Les Tyler, a public information officer for the state police, said Trooper Sgt. K.L. Hyden saw a 2000 Ford pickup truck driving slowly on Interstate 81 south shortly after 11 on the night of Oct. 5.
Tyler said the trooper’s report said the truck “was weaving back and forth’’ in the southbound lanes of 81 at mile marker 246…..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

From The Washington Times
A Virginia State Police trooper injured by a drunk driver was recovering Sunday, a trooper spokeswoman said.
Police trooper K.S. Fleenor was recuperating from injuries after his patrol car was rear-ended by another vehicle on I-495 near Tysons Corner, according to a police statement.
According to a statement issued by the state police, just after midnight on Saturday, Mr. Fleenor stopped in a northbound left travel lane along the highway to help a tow truck remove a damaged car. He was in his patrol car — which was flashing its lights — when another vehicle driven by 30-year-old Christina Hirt ….MORE 

Victim of drunk driver identified as Clarence Alston, of Washington, D.C.
From Fredericksburg.com: Clarence Alston, 42, of Washington, D.C., was hit by a car as he stood beside his vehicle on the right shoulder at the 162 mile marker, state police said.
Police located the Hyundai Santa Fe suspected to have struck Alston in Prince George’s County, Md., later Saturday morning and charged Carol Rood–Johnson, 19, of Woodbridge, with driving under the influence, spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. Sgt. Christina Keene said Rood–Johnson is also being charged with felony hit and run. …..MORE
From WTOP
WASHINGTON – A 19-year-old woman has been charged for drunken driving after she struck and killed a man on Interstate 95 early Saturday morning.
Additional charges against Carol Rood-Johnson of Woodbridge, Va. are pending, officials say.
The incident happened just after midnight at the 162 mile marker in Fairfax County, according to Virginia State Police. A male driver had pulled onto the right shoulder of I-95 and was standing next to his car when Johnson’s Hyundai Santa Fe SUV hit him. ….MORE

From Richmond Times Dispatch
A Petersburg man has been charged with driving under the influence and failure to secure a child after an Interstate 95 wreck in which his 6-year-old niece was ejected from the back seat, Virginia State Police said Saturday.
The child, who was not wearing a seat belt, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries when the car overturned late Friday. She was flown to VCU Medical Center along with her grandmother, who was in the front seat and also had serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Lee Soloman, 23, of Petersburg was driving the 2007 Pontiac in the right lane of I-95 northbound in Petersburg shortly before 9:30 p.m. when he attempted to change lanes to pass a 1999 International tractor-trailer but struck the rear of the rig, state police said.  ….MORE