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San Diego Teen Faces Two Felony Charges Stemming from DUI Crash

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  A   DUI arrest  in San Diego has been made for eighteen year old Joseph Edward Walsh who has been charged with two DUI felonies resulting from a drunken crash that occurred a few months ago. Walsh who is listed to appear in court on Thursday for his arraignment is facing charges from causing injury and another felony count of driving with a considerable amount of alcohol in his system which also caused injury according to San Diego Police. On May 18, 2011, the crash occurred on Rueda Road where Walsh was driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent when he smashed into an SUV carrying a couple and their four year old. After the collision, the vehicle Walsh was driving rolled four times ultimately injuring two passengers. Not long after the accident, a few of Walsh’s peers from Serra High School claimed that they were in disbelief that Walsh was involved in the crash. A fellow classmate of Walsh, Katelyn Garber said that “He's [Walsh] is a pretty sharp guy, good grades, ev

San Diego Man Arrested For Fatal DUI Hit and Run Crash

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  In Escondido last Saturday morning, a male driver in a Hyundai Sonata was arrested for driving under the influence as well as other charges for escaping a   fatal hit and run crash . According to Jim Bettencourt, a CHP officer, the collision took place at San Pasqual Road and Bear Valley Parkway intersection when the 27 year old drunken driver in the Hyundai Sonata crashed into the passenger side of a Ford Aerostar Van ultimately killing the young female passenger in the van. The driver of the van suffered minor injuries and was taken to the nearest hospital. Bettencourt also said that after the drunken driver hit the van, he fled the scene. The 21 year old female passenger’s identity has not been released. The second passenger in the van who is 24 years of age suffered minor injuries where he was then taken to a hospital to get treatment. Another female passenger who is 31 years of age suffered major injuries and was taken to the hospital where she is expected to survive. Joshua Gol

San Diego DUI Crash Leaves Man Seriously Injured

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  A   San Diego DUI accident   that occurred in El Cajon leaves 2 men seriously injured according to the California Highway Patrol. The suspected San Diego DUI driver, Dustin Beyer, 21, was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence after he allegedly ran a red light his 2007 Ford Econoline 350 van. The suspected DUI crash happened around 4:35 p.m. in the vicinity of Jamacha Road and Chase Avenue. The alleged DUI driver crashed into the left side of a 2000 Honda Accord as the 35 year old driver of the Honda was in the intersection making a left turn. Both the driver of the Honda and his male passenger were taken to the hospital where they are said to be in serious condition. The suspected DUI driver was arrested on a felony count of driving under the influence and is being held in San Diego’s central jail on 100,000 bail. He will be arraigned at San Diego Superior Court in El Cajon at1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Driving Under the Influence in San Diego County Driving under

San Diego Resident Gets Four Years for DUI Vehicular Manslaughter

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  San Diego resident Long Xu was sentenced to four years and four months in prison for killing fellow car passenger and victim Jiani Cheng while he was   driving under the influence of alcohol . Twenty-one year old Xu pleaded guilty in court for driving while intoxicated and for causing great bodily harm to Cheng. Xu’s defense attorney, Victor Orsatti, asked the court that his client receive probation. Orsatti argued that his client was “not a drinker and had five or six small glasses of beer at a karaoke bar before the crash. "This is a tragic situation," Orsatti said. "He (Xu) has led a tremendous life." It was stated in court that Xu had a blood alcohol content of .10% after the tragedy however it turned out to be .08 when he was retested. At the time of the accident, a witness said the Xu’s car had flipped on the northbound 11th Avenue onramp on Interstate 5 while going 60 mph. According to Xu’s mother, she explained that she and her husband divorced two years a

DUI Jailtime for Oilers Goaltender

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  DUI arrest in Phoenix Arizona for Nikolai Khabibulin for driving under the influence of alcohol is being ordered to serve a fifteen day jail sentence at the Maricopa County Jail. In August of last year, the hockey player was found guilty for his DUI back in February 2010 and the charges that stemmed from it. The Edmonton Oilers goaltender was pulled over by police for speeding in his black Ferrari. When police offered him a field sobriety test and a blood test, Khabibulin agreed to participate. His results showed that his blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. Due to Khabibulin’s extreme speeding and high blood alcohol content, it is a minimum that the hockey player will have to serve a 30 day jail sentence. When Khabibulin arrived at his court appearance, he accepted the thirty days jail as well as agreed to pay the fine of $4,016, and last but not least, to partake in a treatment program. Khabibulin will spend half his time in jail and the other half of his sent

Del Mar DUI Arrest for Jockey Hall of Famer

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  Del Mar DUI arrest for a well known Jockey on suspicion of  driving under the influence of alcohol   just hours after his big win on the opening day at the races. According to the San Diego Police Department Lt. Andra Brown, the Jockey, Mike Smith, who is a Pasadena resident, was pulled over on Wednesday night near Carmel Valley Road around 11:30 p.m. in his 2011 Land Rover. Brown said that Smith was weaving and driving under the speed limit. This prompted a local officer to pull the Hall of Famer over and give him the option in completing a chemical breath test. Due to his blood alcohol level, which has not been released to the public, the officer took the Jockey to county jail where he was released several hours later on bail. On September 1st the drunken driver is scheduled to make a court appearance for this incident. When Smith was contacted the next day after his arrest, Smith said "I got pulled over. I was taken down to the station and released. I am at work the next day.

San Diego Drunk Driver Going to Stand Trial for Gross Vehicular Manslaughter

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  A San Diego Woman accused for hitting bicyclist while driving under the influence of alcohol was ruled that she will have to stand trial on charges of hit and run, DUI charges and last but not least, gross vehicular manslaughter. On Wednesday, K. Michael Kirkman, a Vista Judge, found that there was sufficient evidence against the twenty-three year old drunken driver, Julianne Elyse Thomson to carry on to trial on January 23 after their long preliminary hearing that day. Covid-19 related employment litigation . Thomson is looking at fifteen years if she is found guilty for the death of Arthur John Jacobs, a sixty-four year old Vista resident. On July 27 of this year, Thomson’s Ford F-150 truck collided with Jacob’s bicycle close to the intersection of El Camino Real and Cassia Street. The accident occurred while Jacobs was on his way to work at a nearby hotel when the truck hit him around 9:45 at night. According to a witness, the San Diego drunken driver ran into bushes and then dr

San Diego Sheriff Detective Pleads Not Guilty for DUI Hit and Run

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 On Thursday, San Diego County Sheriff detective Barbara Jean Crozier pleaded not guilty in court for the two DUI crashes she was responsible for back in August in Palm Desert. The forty-eight year old who is a detective at the Santee substation in San Diego County is looking at an injury hit and run as well as two counts of DUI injuries in which both are felonies. In addition, Crozier is facing four misdemeanors for driving under the influence as well as property damage resulting from a hit and run. Fraud lawyer . Witnesses told the court that on August 30th, Crozier was driving when she crashed into a few parked cars and ran over a pedestrian’s foot in a parking lot of an apartment complex at Fred Waring Drive and Town Center Way. Finally, Crozier was caught by officials when she rammed her vehicle in the water fountain in the entry way of the Marrakesh Country Club located at 47-000 Marrakesh Drive. Crozier was then arrested and booked at the Indio jail for hit and run driving and

Actress Estella Warren Pleads No-Contest For May DUI Charge

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  In Los Angeles, actress Estella Warren appeared in court Friday due to her May 2011 DUI arrest. Warren pleaded no-contest for her DUI charge and the Judge ordered that the she go into a residential rehab facility for six months. Frank Mateljan, a Los Angeles city attorney’s spokesman explained that in addition to residential rehab, Warren is sentenced to five years of informal probation. Civil litigation . According to the Associated Press, on October 7th of this year, Warren will have to attend a hearing about whether or not she will have to pay restitution. The actress alongside Mark Wahlberg starred in 2001 blockbuster Planet of the Apes crashed her Prius while driving under the influence of alcohol into three parked cars. Warren was also charged for assaulting an officer. According to a representative for the L.A. Sheriff’s Dept, Warren “was uncooperative and demanding. She removed her handcuffs and fled the police station. She was captured and transported back." The actre

Pacific Beach Advisory Board Wants to Restrict Alcohol Licensing

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  In Pacific Beach on Wednesday night during a public hearing, the Pacific Beach advisory panel voted to try and make some changes in the way alcohol licenses are distributed in the local area. The title of the new fifty-eight pages of guidelines is “Alcohol License Policies and Issues in Pacific Beach” and this report received an 11-5 vote from the Pacific Beach advisory panel. The recommendations proposed in these guidelines have resulted in a conflict between restaurant owners and the Pacific Beach board. Civil litigation . The first recommendation that caused quite a stir is that the city should make businesses who serve alcohol attain conditional-use permits first before they can receive an official license. This is irritating to restaurant owners because it will be more of a challenge to obtain a license. The second recommendation is that police officers need to enforce the proposed regulations. According to the Pacific Beach Planning group member Scott Chipman, he says “We lik

Long Beach Fire Captain Pleads Guilty for DUI Hit and Run Crash

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 In Santa Ana California, the Long Beach fire captain pleaded guilty for critically injuring a cyclist in a crash while he was driving under the influence of alcohol back in April. On the first day of April, John Hines, a resident of Huntington Beach, was drinking at a bar in Long Beach before getting behind the wheel of his truck. Hines lost control of his driving in Seal Beach and ultimately hit a cyclist who was in the bike lane. Fraud lawyer firm in Florida . The victim, forty-seven year old Jeffrey Gordon was severely injured. Hines didn’t pull over to stop after hitting Gordon and just kept driving until he reached his home where he was later arrested. The drunken fire captain’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit where he measured at 0.24 percent. Hines pleaded guilty to the charges of a DUI resulting in bodily injury, driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit, a hit and run with an injury as well as sentencing for causing an injury while having b

San Diego Man Faces Vehicular Manslaughter Charges

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 In Vista on Tuesday, the testimony trial of a man accused of driving under the influence when he slammed into a sport utility vehicle ultimately killing the driver in Oceanside had finally come to an end. The drunken driver known as William Vincent Romero could be convicted and have to serve fifteen years to life in prison as well as other charges for killing Oscar Lopez in the DUI crash that occurred in April of 2010. Judge Michael Kirkman of Vista Superior Court scheduled this case’s closing arguments for this coming Wednesday. Civil litigation lawyer in Florida . Forty-four year old Romero is facing murder charges, a DUI resulting in gross vehicular manslaughter, driving with an illegal amount of blood-alcohol in his system, injury stemmed from a DUI as well as a hit and run. Information provided by the California Highway Patrol, Romero was driving his 1993 Chevrolet Camaro south of the I-5 near Basilone Road around midnight. Then Romero started going into another lane when he cr

SDSU Basketball Player Arrested For DUI

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  A DUI arrest was made in San Diego on Sunday morning when a San Diego State University basketball player was caught driving under the influence of alcohol. Twenty- year old Jamal Franklin, a sophomore, was pulled over by police on Campanile Drive and Hardy Avenue around 4:22 in the morning. Information regarding the arrest was made by university police where it was stated that Franklin was “transported to jail” as well as his car being towed. SDSU police refused to publicize Franklin’s blood alcohol level which the California law is that drivers of legal age and over cannot have a blood-alcohol level of .08. For those under twenty-one years, the law is .01. Coach Fisher of the basketball team is aware of the player’s DUI arrest and is still collecting information regarding the case. Mike May, the San Diego State’s athletic department representative failed to comment on the incident. Lawyer firm in Florida . Franklin’s teammates have recognized how much their teammate has improved w

San Diego DUI Crash Leaves Man Seriously Injured

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  A San Diego DUI accident that occurred in El Cajon leaves 2 men seriously injured according to the California Highway Patrol. The suspected San Diego DUI driver, Dustin Beyer, 21, was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence after he allegedly ran a red light his 2007 Ford Econoline 350 van. The suspected DUI crash happened around 4:35 p.m. in the vicinity of Jamacha Road and Chase Avenue. The alleged DUI driver crashed into the left side of a 2000 Honda Accord as the 35 year old driver of the Honda was in the intersection making a left turn. Lawyer firm in Florida . Both the driver of the Honda and his male passenger were taken to the hospital where they are said to be in serious condition. The suspected DUI driver was arrested on a felony count of driving under the influence and is being held in San Diego’s central jail on 100,000 bail. He will be arraigned at San Diego Superior Court in El Cajon at1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Driving Under the Influence in San D

Two Years After her DUI, California Star Nicole Ritchie Has Gone the High Road

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  New mommy Nicole Ritchie has apparently cleaned up her act. A judge determined this week that the former Simple Life has done a complete turn-around and is “in compliance” with the terms of her probation stemming from her 2006 DUI bust, reports E! News. Lawyer firm in Florida . Richie, who was caught driving the wrong way on an L.A. freeway after taking Vicodin and smoking pot in 2006 has become a mother (daughter Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born January 11, 2008), started the Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation, and continues to comply with her probation restrictions. Ritchie was placed on three years' probation in July 2007, served just 82 minutes of a four-day jail sentence last summer while pregnant, and even though only required to clock in for three weeks, Ritchie signed up for an entire 18-month alcohol education program. A follow-up hearing has been set for February 20, 2009. However, like last week’s hearing, Richie, who instead attended a few shows at New York’s fashi

Actress Estella Warren Pleads No-Contest For May DUI Charge

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 In Los Angeles, actress Estella Warren appeared in court Friday due to her May 2011 DUI arrest. Warren pleaded no-contest for her DUI charge and the Judge ordered that the she go into a residential rehab facility for six months. Frank Mateljan, a Los Angeles city attorney’s spokesman explained that in addition to residential rehab, Warren is sentenced to five years of informal probation. According to the Associated Press, on October 7th of this year, Warren will have to attend a hearing about whether or not she will have to pay restitution. The actress alongside Mark Wahlberg starred in 2001 blockbuster Planet of the Apes crashed her Prius while driving under the influence of alcohol into three parked cars. Lawyer firm in Florida . Warren was also charged for assaulting an officer. According to a representative for the L.A. Sheriff’s Dept, Warren “was uncooperative and demanding. She removed her handcuffs and fled the police station. She was captured and transported back." The

Pacific Beach Advisory Board Wants to Restrict Alcohol Licensing

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  In Pacific Beach on Wednesday night during a public hearing, the Pacific Beach advisory panel voted to try and make some changes in the way alcohol licenses are distributed in the local area. The title of the new fifty-eight pages of guidelines is “Alcohol License Policies and Issues in Pacific Beach” and this report received an 11-5 vote from the Pacific Beach advisory panel. The recommendations proposed in these guidelines have resulted in a conflict between restaurant owners and the Pacific Beach board. Lawyer firm in Florida . The first recommendation that caused quite a stir is that the city should make businesses who serve alcohol attain conditional-use permits first before they can receive an official license. This is irritating to restaurant owners because it will be more of a challenge to obtain a license. The second recommendation is that police officers need to enforce the proposed regulations. According to the Pacific Beach Planning group member Scott Chipman, he says “

Long Beach Fire Captain Pleads Guilty for DUI Hit and Run Crash

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 In Santa Ana California, the Long Beach fire captain pleaded guilty for critically injuring a cyclist in a crash while he was driving under the influence of alcohol back in April. On the first day of April, John Hines, a resident of Huntington Beach, was drinking at a bar in Long Beach before getting behind the wheel of his truck. Hines lost control of his driving in Seal Beach and ultimately hit a cyclist who was in the bike lane. Lawyer office in Florida . The victim, forty-seven year old Jeffrey Gordon was severely injured. Hines didn’t pull over to stop after hitting Gordon and just kept driving until he reached his home where he was later arrested. The drunken fire captain’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit where he measured at 0.24 percent. Hines pleaded guilty to the charges of a DUI resulting in bodily injury, driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit, a hit and run with an injury as well as sentencing for causing an injury while having blood