Pinellas Park police are reporting a St. Petersburg man crashed into one of their police cruisers while driving drunk Wednesday evening. According to Bay News 9, Steven Jason Roberts, ran into the police car and then left the scene of the accident. He was later apprehended after abandoning his Jeep Cherokee and fleeing the scene of […]
DUI Manslaughter Trial In South Florida Set To Begin
It has been more than three years since two young women were killed by a man police believe was a drunk driver. The state of Florida will try to prove that to a south Florida jury this week. The trial of Edwin Perez on the charge of DUI manslaughter gets under way in a West Palm […]
Intoxilyzer 8000 Under Fire Once Again In DUI Cases Inside Florida Courtrooms
The battle lines are being drawn for a crucial fight over breath tests in about 300 drunk driving cases in Palm Beach County. At the heart of the matter is the controversial Intoxilyzer 8000 breath test machine. The machine has already faced stiff legal challenges in courtrooms in Sarasota and Manatee counties which resulted in hundreds of […]
North Port Woman Spends Christmas Day In A Sarasota Jail After DUI, Hit And Run And Bribery Charges Filed
Most of us spent Christmas Day with our families but Lynn Marie Pierce spent her Christmas in a Sarasota County jail. The North Port woman was arrested on charges of DUI, hit-and-run and driving with an expired license on Christmas Eve. She then compounded it all by trying to bribe her way out of trouble. That led […]
Pasco Woman Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison After Killing A Man Following Her Second DUI
Heather Dinson pled guilty to DUI manslaughter last month and left her fate in the hands of a Pasco County judge following her second DUI, which resulted in a man’s death. The judge sentenced the 35-year-old to 12 years in prison as he took into account her previous DUI conviction from 1995 as he contemplated […]
St. Pete Cop Charged With DUI And Hit-And-Run Following Friday Night Crash
Anthony Matthew Green, who has been a St. Petersburg patrol officer since 2005, has been charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident following a Friday night car crash. The 30-year-old alleged blew more than twice the legal limit as his blood alcohol level registered at .179 and .173 when police located him […]
Sarasota Judge Selected To Lead The State’s DUI Adjudication Lab
There is no bigger hot spot for the issues surrounding breath tests in DUI cases than Sarasota, Florida. Defense Attorneys in this part of the state have had great success in having 100’s of breath tests excluded due to the Intoxilyzer machines utilized in the area. It has been very frustrating for prosecutors in these […]
Sarasota Deputies Stop 633 Cars At Checkpoint And Make Just One DUI Arrest
A holiday sobriety checkpoint setup by Sarasota County deputies doesn’t seem to have been the best allocation of the counties resources. The deputies spent four hours stopping every car going south on U.S. 41 but when all was said and done, there was just one DUI arrest made. The results of the Sarasota checkpoint seem […]
Shoppers At New Port Richey Target Store Alert Police To Drunk Driver
Shoppers at a local New Port Richey Target store noticed 59-year-old George Burnosky seemed intoxicated and when he left the store to get behind the wheel of his car people at the store alerted the police to a possible drunk driver. When Pasco County deputies arrived on the scene the Pasco man was asleep at […]
Pinellas County Man Charged With DUI Manslaughter After Crash On Howard Frankland Bridge
William Edward Storey has been charged with DUI manslaughter and booked into Pinellas County Jail according to Jamal Thalji’s story on TampaBay.com. The charges stem from an early morning car accident in August. Storey’s Mercedes rear ended a pick-up truck driven by Daniel Harrell as the two vehicles exited the Howard Frankland Bridge. Harrell was ejected […]
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