A teenager in Yuma, Arizona recently was charged with driving under the influence and various misdemeanor charges following an accident in which his white truck hit a parked car. The parked car was hit with enough force to push it over the curb, across the lawn, and into the house.
The police department has asked the prosecutors to charge the teen with two felonies and nine misdemeanors. The flonies are aggravated driving under the influence and criminal damage. The misdemeanors are: driving under the influence with blood alcohol content of .08 or more; driving under the influence; underage drinking while driving; criminal damage; reckless driving; endangerment; driving on a suspende or revoked license; and leaving the scene of an accident.
If you have been charged with a Texas DUI, contact Plano DUI lawyer Mark T. Lassiter at 214-457-1668 to discuss your case and to determine your situation.
A Northern Michigan man was arrested recently for operating his riding lawn mower, or lawn tractor, while drunk. He was arrested after he fell off of his motorized lawn mower and injured himself. Thankfully, no shrubs or other people were injured.
Witnesses reported the man after they saw him driving in circles in the middle of an intersection while appearing to be unconscious. He apparently regained both consciousness and control of the lawn tractor before losing consciousness again. The second loss of consciousness resulted in him falling off of the lawn tractor. The riding mower continued until it hit a tree.
The man was arrested on chrages of driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license. He has been released from jail on bail of $5,000. He will next appear in court on July 29th. This was his third DWI arrest.
If you have been charged with driving while intoxicated, contact Dallas DWI lawyer Mark T. Lassiter at 214-457-1668 to discuss your situation and to determine your legal options.
A Tarrant County judge has tossed out the blood evidence the prosecution had in a DWI case recently. While collecting blood is legal, it apparently is not legal to have an officer collect the blood, as opposed to a nurse or doctor.
Following an arrest on suspicion of DWI, a suspect is likely to have blood drawn. While most police departments keep a nurse or doctor on staff to do this, the neighborhood of Dalworthington Gardens has trained its police officers to draw the blood.
In addition to the one case in question, Dalworthington Gardens officers have drawn blood for 29 separate Fort Worth DWI arrests. Officials from Fort Worth say they will no longer use the officers for drawing blood.
If you have been charged with driving while intoxicated, contact Grand Prairie DWI lawyer Mark T. Lassiter at 214-457-1668 to discuss your case and to determine your legal options.
Austin, TX – The Austin Police Department has begun training its officers to drive their new Breath Alcohol Testing Unit.The unit is actually a bus that will allow APD police officers to determine if drivers are intoxicated.CAPMetro, the city’s public transit entity, has been training the officers using its bus simulator.
Nicknamed the BAT mobile, the bus is part of the city’s latest efforts to get drunk drivers off the roads.Texas leads the nation in alcohol related fatalities.The new BAT mobile was dedicated to two fallen officers who were killed by drunk drivers.The number of alcohol related fatalities in Austin has remained constant, with an average of 29 per year since 2005.
If you have been arrested for a DWI, contact the Dallas DWI Lawyer Mark Lassiter at 214-457-1668 to discuss your case and legal options.
Over the past weekend, one of the Dallas County assistant district attorneys has pulled over and arrested for a DWI. Thomas Gatlin was arrested late Saturday evening because of a DWI. Witnesses said that he had crashed his car into his neighbor’s brick home. The neighbor came out to see what was going on and had to break his window to turn the car off and to reach the driver.
Rob Stanley, Gatlin’s neighbor, said that when he tried to talk to him, Gatlin didn’t know who he was or anything about himself. The neighbor also told police that when he went to get Gatlin out of the car, he saw an empty bottle of Smirnoff lying on the ground.
Early Tuesday morning, Gatlin officially resigned his position as Dallas County Assistant District Attorney because of his Dallas DWI over the weekend. There is no word on what his BAC level was when the police arrived on the scene Saturday evening. After speaking with his Dallas DWI Lawyer, Gatlin refused to comment to any press on the situation that had happened.
For more information, contact your Dallas DWI Lawyer Mark Lassiter at 214-457-1668.
