Over Memorial Day weekend, police were on the lookout for drunk drivers. As such, the Dallas Police Department arrested 38 people on charges of DWI over the three day weekend. Of those 38, 13 refused to submit to sobriety tests.
As a result, warrants were issued to allow blood draws for those 13 drivers. These 38 DWIs could have very serious consequences for many of the arrested people and the people around them.
If you or someone you know is facing DWI charges, contact the Dallas DWI attorney, Mark T Lassiter at 214-457-1668.
A sergeant in the Dallas Police Department was dismissed from the force on Tuesday during a disciplinary hearing. A 25 year veteran, he had been assigned to the Central Business district in his last assignment.
The firing is resultant of the sergeant’s DWI arrest on June 7, 2008. Earlier this month, he was found guilty in a Collin County Court. DWIs can have effects beyond simply jail time and fines.
If you or someone you know is facing DWI charges, contact the Dallas DWI attorney, Mark T Lassiter at 214-457-1668
A bill that would allow authorities to conduct DWI checkpoints in Texas passed in the Senate recently. However, now that it is in the House, it seems to be dying. The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee will likely not vote on the bill at all.
The bill would have allowed checkpoints in cities with populations of 325,000 or more. Any checkpoint would have had to be submitted in writing with details about the date, time and location. However, it does not seem like these checkpoints will be seen in Texas any time soon.
If you or someone you know is facing DWI charges, contact the Dallas DWI attorney, Mark T Lassiter at 214-457-1668
A 43-year-old Texas man faces complaints of eluding a police officer and DUI after he failed to comply with a traffic stop. Police observed a Ford pickup traveling eastbound on 33rd st late Friday evening. According to police the driver, later identified as Lawrence Ray Fitzmier Jr., was driving erratically and failing to signal as it changed lanes. An officer initiated a traffic stop at 33rd St. and Prarie Ave. However, before coming to a stop, the pickup began traveling at a high rate of speed south on Prarie Ave, but then disregarded the attempt and turned west onto 35th st.
During the pursuit, the vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign and ran a red light. The pickup struck two vehicles in an intersection and finally turned westbound on 7th St. where it pulled into a gas station parking lot and stopped.
Police found two 24-ounce beer cans in the truck. Fitzmier was transported to the county jail where he was booked on complaints of eluding a police officer and felony DUI.
If you or someone you know is facing DWI charges please contact the Dallas DWI attorney Mark T Lassiter at 214-459-1668.
Prescott police arrested a Texas truck driver on Monday on charges of extreme DUI. The man backed his semi truck and trailer into the Lowe’s building on Highway 69, damaging the building and his tractor-trailer, police said in a press release.
Forty-four-year-old Manuel Paz-Pocasangre, who is a supplier for Lowe’s, was attempting to back into a loading bay at the store. According to police Paz-Pocasangre tried half-a-dozen times, the truck collided with the building.
Police reviewed footage from the store’s security camera which captured the whole incident.
Lowe’s employees found Paz-Pocasangre in the driver’s seat of the truck with the engine still running. Employees called the police because they suspected him of being drunk. Preliminary investigation indicated he had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.249 percent. Arizona’s legal limit is 0.08 percent. Paz-Pocasangre was booked into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde where authorities are holding him on $4,000 bond pending a May 12 court hearing.
If you or someone you know is facing DWI charges, contact the Dallas DWI attorney, Mark T Lassiter at 214-459-1668.
