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Victor Ortiz arrested for DUI
“I appreciate everything that’s been done for me. After a difficult start, I’ve just followed my dreams” Victor Ortiz WBC Welterweight Champ Victor Ortiz hits the headlines again, but neither for gaining a victory in the boxing ring nor for acting in a new film. According to TMZ Sports, Ortiz was pulled over by the police due to expired registration tags on his BMW at around 7 p.m. on Saturday. After the stop, a police officer detected that the former “Dancing With the Stars” celebrity and a boxer was in a state of alcoholic intoxication. Then the boxer/actor allegedly failed the field sobriety tests, got himself arrested for a DUI, and now faces DUI charges. At the time of this […]
IID usage around California as a way to prevent DUI’s
Over the past 30 years, drunk driving caused more than 1 million injuries and 50 thousand fatal incidents, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving data. For California this problem is very urgent, because the number of DUI crashes in California may increase. An effective way to fight driving under the influence is ignition interlock device. Interlock Ignition Device (IID) is currently mandated in 4 California counties after a DUI conviction. The legislature believes that the IID usage is necessary to use in all California counties. The current law implements IID after a DUI only in 4 California counties – Los Angeles, Tulare, Alameda, and Sacramento. In these counties drivers convicted of DUI must install ignition interlock device in their cars. […]
Los Angeles Rams safety TJ McDonald faces DUI charges
T.J. McDonald, an American football safety for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League, was charged with a non-alcohol-related DUI in September. Last Friday, just after the Rams finished their training session, LA Prosecutor’s Office officially announced that they are filing charges against McDonald. The decision is tied to his arrest earlier this year in May when the car he was driving collided with a parked vehicle in the 22900 block of Gershwin Drive, Woodland Hills area, Los Angeles. Mr. McDonald didn’t flee the scene of the accident and waited for the police to arrive. Officers questioned him at the location of the accident and took him to the police station. After completing the investigation, law enforcement officers […]
Suspected Drunk Driver Crashes in Hollywood, Los Angeles
California has a very unique museum that officially was opened in 2016. The Museum of Broken Relationships was founded by an artist of Croatian decent who went through a painful breakup. The Museum is dedicated to failed love relations and it features some personal objects donated by former lovers, accompanied by descriptions. Museum website reads: “The Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum’s collection”. Probably a break-up of love affairs motivated a DUI suspected woman to “contribute” her car to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles, California on Monday. It was reported that the alleged drunk driver, a 30 years old woman, hit two pedestrian with her black Audi […]
Winning DMV hearings for CVC 23136: “Zero Tolerance” Winning Minor DUI cases
Vehicle Code 23136 …says that it is unlawful for a person under the age of 21 years who has a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.01 percent or greater, as measured by a preliminary alcohol screening test or other chemical test, to drive a vehicle… Description of CVC 23136 California Vehicle Code section 23136 makes it a crime for anyone below the age of twenty-one to drive a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.01% or above. This offense is prosecuted whenever a driver who is under 21 years of age has a blood alcohol level between .01 % to .03%. This law is known as California’s “zero tolerance” DUI law. If you are found guilty of a violation of CVC […]
Los Angeles DUI Prosecution Using Marijuana breathalyzers
Law Enforcement looks at drug usage as a DUI waiting to happen. This is especially a problem for Los Angeles DUI prosecution, which is aware of medicinal and recreational marijuana in Los Angeles. Driver’s impairment is a factor in drug DUI prosecution and the more a driver appears impaired, the more likely he would face police scrutiny, prosecution, and punishments. Presently, the chemical tests used by police to determine drug impairment are insufficient. Almost any presently used tests, such as blood or urine analysis, are inaccurate because, unlike alcohol, drugs can remain in the human body much longer. Also, urine and blood tests are very slow and do not return results of the actual narcotics levels until days later. Recently, […]
Will LAPD officers be sentenced for covering up DUI crash?
Earlier this month, two LAPD officers were charged with perjury and felony conspiracy for writing a false police report and protecting a drunk driver against possible prosecution. Both officers deny their implication in the wrongdoing. LAPD officers Rene Ponce and Irene Gomez were on duty on 26 October, 2014 when they were dispatched to a scene of a vehicle accident at the 3000 block of East Side Boulevard. The accident possibly involved a DUI driver that crashed into two parked cars. The officers chose not to carry out a sobriety test on the driver, as mandated by LAPD policy, or to conduct a drunk-driving investigation. Instead, they took the driver home and told him to get enough sleep, prosecutors stated. […]
Sheriff’s deputy’s wife arrested for DUI and fatality
Yarenit Malihan, the wife of a local Sheriff’s Deputy, was taken into custody by the Californian Highway Patrol officials on suspicion of DUI and vehicular manslaughter after a collision that killed a 3-year- old boy in San Ramon on the Interstate freeway 680. According to the officers’ report the 39-years-old Yarenit Liliana Malihan of Pleasanton was driving an SUV and collided with a stalled Toyota Camry in San Ramon near the Bollinger Canyon exit on I-680 at about 6:20 p.m. Friday. The stalled car carried the Dunn family of three children and their mother. The Dunns parked the Camry on the side of the road because they ran out of gas. Two children: a girl, 1-year-old, and a boy, 11-years-old, […]
Iman Shumpert arrested on suspicion of DUI
Two months later after winning an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers, shooting guard Iman Shumpert was arrested for suspicion of DUI, drug possession and lane violation. According to the incident report, Shumpert was pulled over on August 10, at about 11:30 p. m. after been observed weaving in and out of his driving lane and suspected of driving while intoxicated. Police alleged that Iman Shumpert had a small amount of drugs in his car. The police also allege that Mr. Shumpert acknowledged to the police that he had smoked marijuana prior to driving his rental car. Mr. Shumpert failed field sobriety tests and was arrested by the DUI investigating officers. Under California Vehicle Code 23152(e) a driver can be […]
Court postponed Clinton’s DUI arraignment
Roger Clinton, the half-brother of former President Bill Clinton, was recently arrested for a DUI. Prior to the DUI, he had several brush ins with the law, including a 1985 he was accused of cocaine distribution and in 2001 he was convicted of misdemeanor reckless driving. During the latest incident, the police officers pulled over Roger Clinton for the suspicion of drunk driving. His attorney continued the arraignment to a different date. The court postponed the hearing of Roger Clinton’s case until October 6. He is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. According to the Los Angeles County Superior Court records, the law enforcement officer from Redondo Beach arrested Mr. Clinton and suspected him of being under […]