DUI/DWI News Blog-Why It’s Critically Important To Avoid Conviction

In an effort to cut down on the amount of motorists driving under the influence, a multi-agency DUI strike force conducted two DUI checkpoints on the Florida State University’s campus Tuesday, July 24. The strike force was composed of members of both the FSU and Tallahassee Police Departments.

SARASOTA - A traffic stop Friday night on Stickney Point Road resulted in eight DUI arrests and one drug-related arrest, a sheriff’s officer reports.

Officers from six local law enforcement agencies arrested six people for driving under the influence Friday during a DUI checkpoint in cooperation with the Adams County DUI Task Force, according to a Carroll Valley Police press release.

DU QUOIN - A Perryville, Mo., woman involved in an accident last month that resulted in the death of Du Quoin resident Donna Davis has been charged with two counts of aggravated DUI in Jackson County Circuit Court.

DUI CHARGES David Smith, 34, no street address provided, of McKees Rocks, on July 21 by Robinson Township police on Steubenville Pike. He is also charged with having an expired inspection sticker.

The story: In a column, Anne T. Denogean tells how Tucsonan Molly Steffens, whose daughter and her friend were killed by a drunken driver in 1987, played a role in the Arizona Legislature’s passage this year of a law that requires that all DUI offenders use ignition-interlock devices for a year.

*Nicole Richie was sentenced Friday to 96 hours in jail, a $2,048 fine and mandatory drug and alcohol rehab for the December DUI arrest following her wrong-way drive on an L.A. freeway.

Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputies stopped 635 vehicles as part of a DUI checkpoint Saturday night. Conducted between 11:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. in the 2700 block of South Rock Road, the checkpoint led to the arrest of 10 people accused of driving under the influence. In addition, there were three arrests on charges of transporting an open container of alcohol, and one narcotics arrest.

It might be the bane of college students driving home after a night of drinking and dancing in downtown Gainesville. But the state’s stringent laws that mandate immediate loss of a driver’s license after an arrest for driving under the influence saves hundreds of lives a year, a new…

A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with a second DUI offense. Dennis J. Lamer, 32, of 202 S. Court St. was arrested at 1:43 a.m. Tuesday, July 24.