18-year old Ethan Couch famously made headlines in 2013 as the Affluenza Teen, after the privileged Texas youth lost control and drove his pickup truck into a group of pedestrians on the side of the road, killing all four of them. Couch, only 16 at the time was sentenced in juvenile court to ten years [...]
Sometimes when you read headlines, they just blow your mind. This is one of them. A Pennsylvania man recently showed up drunk to a hearing in which he was set to plead guilty to a drunk driving case. Instead of pleading guilty and seeing where that went, the judge jailed him for showing up drunk. [...]
A 28-year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) after losing control of a Corvette during a test drive. The resulting crash killed the salesman in the car with him and police arrested the suspect for vehicular manslaughter, along with DUI shortly after the accident. The accident occurred near the CarMax where the [...]
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not... Drink and drive. Far from the North Pole, Santa Claus found himself in a less-than-jolly situation following the busy holiday season. Post Falls, Idaho made national news last month when a man who is legally named Santa Claus, was arrested for DUI. Law enforcement reported [...]
Fresh off their Super Bowl 50 win, Denver Broncos safety Shiloh Keo, 28, was arrested on February 13, 2015, in Idaho on a DUI charge. Keo, an Eagle, Idaho native, was booked into Adad County Jail shortly after 2 AM by Idaho State Police. Keo allegedly was stopped by a state trooper at milepost 4 [...]
In January, Miss Washington Stormy Keffeler resigned from her title of Miss Washington, after news broke of her undisclosed DUI conviction. The application to enter a US beauty pageant requires applicants to disclose whether they’ve ever been convicted of a felony. Keffeler consulted with her lawyer before declining any convictions. According to Keffeler’s lawyer, the [...]
A Weatherford, Texas man was sentenced to life in prison after he pled guilty to a 10th driving while intoxicated (DWI) offense. District Judge Craig Towson sentenced Ivy Ray Eberhardt, 62, to life in prison after accumulating 12 DWI arrests followed by 10 DWI convictions. The initial case that brought Eberhardt in front of Judge [...]
Have any alcohol related convictions on your record? If so, you may have a more difficult time obtaining a handgun permit in Indiana soon. A current proposed bill could take away the ability to buy a handgun if the purchaser has an alcohol related offense on his or her record. On Wednesday, January 13th, 2016, [...]
Falcon, Colorado resident Garrett Dean Neugebauer, 42, received 24 years in the Department of Corrections (DOC) recently for repeat DUI offenses culminating in a fire on I-25. On October 23, 2014, Neugebauer was convicted on two separate counts of attempted first-degree assault with extreme indifference, a single count of vehicular eluding with injury, and a [...]