According to Sergeant Jessica Vanderhoof 0n Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 1:56 A.M. the Coachella Police Department responded to the area of Tripoli Way and Avenue 52 regarding a silver-colored Toyota Camry that collided into a utility pole. Witnesses observed the driver fleeing the scene of the collision. The suspect, Hernan Bustamante, age 22, of Coachella was determined to have been driving the Toyota at the time of the collision and located in front of a nearby residence attempting to hide from officers. Bustamante was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and hit and run. Bustamante was taken to a local area hospital for a precaution prior to being booked into the Riverside County jail in Indio.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — 08/13/2014 — Authorities with the Jupiter Police Department said officers tried to pull over Jacob Donovan, 26, early Tuesday morning for a drunken driving investigation on U.S. Highway 1 near Indiantown Road, but Donovan allegedly refused to stop and fled.

Police briefly pursued Donovan’s Toyota Camry but broke off the chase when he entered Juno Beach

A deputy at the scene wrote in the arrest records, “Sgarlata had slurred speech with a heavy odor of alcohol coming from his breath. Sgarlata was unsteady on his feet and was found with his pants unbuckled and shirt unbuttoned. Mr. Sgarlata admitted to drinking 5 glasses of wine before the crash.”

On Friday, as he pleaded guilty, he told the judge that was “the best way to put all this behind us.”

But that’s not so simple a task for the victims family.

“[I] just take it a day at a time, and just kind of see what they would want me to do,” said Leia Wrenn’s daughter Tonya Adkins outside the Leesburg courthouse Friday morning.

A 16-year-old Brooklyn Center boy clung to life for days before dying after a suspected drunken driver, without a valid license, fled one crash on a north-metro highway and ran into the teen’s car down the road moments later, authorities said.

Jason F. McCarthy, of Brooklyn Center, remained in North Memorial Medical Center on Wednesday after his family posted on CaringBridge over the weekend that “the injuries to Jason during the impact of the accident were too much for him to survive. Jason is currently on life support so family can get here and say goodbye.”

Michael Cieslak of Washington DC was traveling on Snow Hill Road in a 2006 Mercedes when he failed to maintain control of the vehicle. The Mercedes left the roadway and struck a utility pole. Cieslak was treated on scene, but troopers noted evidence of impairment. Cieslak failed field sobriety testing and was placed under arrest. He was transported back to the Berlin Barrack, and he agreed to take an evidentiary breath test yielding a result of 0.17 grams of alcohol per 210 ml of breath. Any breath sample of 0.08 or above is deemed to be impaired in the State of Maryland.