Drunk Driving

Sheriff's Car Rear-Ended By Drunk Near West Hollywood, Cops Say

From the Department of Don't Even Try This At Home Kids comes this amazing story from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Deputies say two of their own who had been conducting a pedestrian stop near West Hollywood early yesterday were inside their stopped patrol car when it was rear-ended by a dr ... More >>

Peter Murphy's People Say Bauhaus Legend Had Barely Trace Of Alcohol During DUI

Peter Murphy, the legendary Bauhaus vocalist arrested over the weekend on suspicion of DUI, hit-and-run and meth possession, had barely a trace of alcohol in his system, his handlers say. Which begs the question: What then, was he allegedly on? Because a witness was so terrified over the Brit's dri ... More >>

Marijuana Lingers For A Month; Zero-Tolerance DUI Would Ensnare 'Sober' Med Patients

There have been a few attempts to establish zero-tolerance DUI limits for weed smokers who get behind the wheel. The latest proposal by state Sen. Lou Correa would give you a DUI even if you had a trace of pot in your system. The problem with that is virtually all regular medical marijuana patients ... More >>

Strip Club Customers Lose Legs In Crash At Sam's Hofbrau; Terrence Meeks Arrested

Updated at the bottom with the suspect charged only with DUI. First posted shortly after 7 a.m. Monday. Headline has changed. Two men had legs amputated after a driver rammed them against another car in the parking lot of the Sam's Hofbrau strip club over the weekend, police said. One of the victi ... More >>

Marijuana Driving Video Shows Stoners Behind The Wheel Doing Fairly Well

There's been a lot of contradictory information regarding stoned driving out there. Studies have suggested that the marijuana-impaired motorist is certainly better than the drunk one -- that she drives slower and more deliberately. Other reports have concluded that pot-smoking drivers are a growing ... More >>

Linda Hogan's DUI Arrest Comes in Midst of Hulk Hogan's Sex-Tape Scandal

Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda Bollea, a.k.a. Linda Hogan, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of driving her Mercedes under the influence of alcohol on the 101 freeway in Calabasas, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced today. It happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. on the 101 at Kanan Road, depu ... More >>

Justin Wesson, Son of Herb Wesson, Sees DUI Arrest Despite Clear Checkpoint Warnings

Justin Wesson, the son of L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson, was arrested over the weekend for alleged drunk driving, authorities tell the Weekly. Normally we might raise an eyebrow and wonder about dirty political tricks. After all, it wouldn't be the first time around here. Allegedly. But ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Forsakes Legal Troubles in L.A. for New York ... Where She's Arrested

So after years of run-ins with the po-po in Los Angeles, including two drunk-driving convictions, hit-and-run allegations and a jewelry-theft conviction, Lindsay Lohan decided to hightail it to New York City. There she could make a fresh start away from the paparazzi and, theoretically, at least, g ... More >>

Hakop Maghakyan's Alleged Drinking, Driving and Hitting a Tanker Don't Mix on 134 Freeway. Yet He's Out on $5,000 Bail: VIDEO

By Andra Lim You have a little too much, you get in your car, you start up the engine. It's a stupid idea -- and even stupider if you can't avoid hitting the huge double-rig tanker that's carrying over 6,000 gallons of oil. The tanker fire at I- 5 and the 134 Freeway dominated headlines this week ... More >>

Amanda Bynes DUI: Nickelodeon Star Clips L.A. Sheriff's Vehicle While Allegedly Wasted

Is Amanda Bynes the new Lindsay Lohan? Her hair is looking extra fried and face extra puffy these days. But more importantly, the former child star (and up-and-coming West Hollywood party girl) was arrested last night for drunk driving, according to Sergeant Arthur Famble at the West Hollywood Sher ... More >>

Smoking Marijuana a Month Ago Could Get You a DUI Today Under Proposed Law

Updated at the bottom: A group of current and former law enforcement officers has urged the lawmaker to withdraw this bill. First posted at 7:03 a.m. The problem with lawmakers is that they feel the need to make laws, even when they're unneeded or unfair. The pro-marijuana group NORML is up in arm ... More >>

Hollywood Clubbers Be Warned: DUI Checkpoint on the Boulevard Tonight

Ray Axe​Get ready, party people. Because the LAPD is preparing to strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger. Yeah, the Buzz Killingtons will be out in full force not far from the Cahuenga Corridor clubbing mecca tonight in a seek-and-destroy mission targeting drunk drivers. ... More >>

Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as I.D.

Ground beef is not a valid form of identification. Not in Martin County, not in Los Angeles, not anywhere. A Florida man learned this the hard way, when he handed a taco to police officers who asked for his I.D. This was after he had passed out in his car. While sitting in the drive-through lane o ... More >>

4th of July DUI Checkpoints Waiting For You in L.A., But You Can Avoid All That And Get a Free 'Tipsy Tow'

TMZDon't be a Lohan.​Yes, there will be fireworks going off in your head this holiday weekend. We know our LA Weekly readers. But don't be a Lohan and stumble or, worse, get your ass busted for DUI. And, frankly, as you celebrate our quasi-independence from Mexico (joking), there's no excuse ... More >>

Christine Dahab, Drunk Driver Who Plowed Through Group of 'Midnight Ridazz,' Gets off With Misdemeanor

Facebook via LA StreetsblogA witness photo from the scene.​One thing we've learned from living in L.A.: Don't mess with bikers. (We don't mean biker bikers -- we know those greasy, ear-splitting "fags" are really just big softies beneath all that passive-aggressive lane changing.) No, we're ta ... More >>

Hot Boarding Skateboard Accident Involving Car Tow Puts 35-Year-Old Edward Culhan in Hospsital

Hot boarding.​Updated at the bottom: The skateboarder died. Mix speed, a skateboard and alleged drunk driving and you probably have a recipe for hospitalization. Authorities say a skateboarder being towed by a suspected DUI driver crashed and ended up hospitalized with critical injuries over ... More >>

Curly Junior Ross Killed by DUI Driver Who Went Wrong Way, With Bloody Car, Through a DUI Checkpoint, Cops Say

LASDThis car, wrong way, through a DUI checkpoint -- allegedly.​Added: Sheriff's officials say the District Attorney's office this week charged the suspect "with Second Degree Murder, Felony DUI, & Hit and Run from a traffic collision." Here's a doozy of a tale out of scenic Lancaster. Sheri ... More >>

Jose Diance-Cruz's Death Ruled Accident, But Coroner Will Look Into Whether LAPD Cop Was Drunk When His Pickup Crashed

SharleneDaysJose Diance-Cruz, left.​The Los Angeles County Coroner's office will conduct toxicology tests on the body of LAPD Officer Jose Diance-Cruz, who died in a solo-vehicle accident over the weekend. One of the things coroner's investigators are looking into is whether the off-duty 23-ye ... More >>

Four Loko Study: Caffeine Ingredient Further Impairs Judgement, But Actually Helps With Response Time

Joke's on you, squares​This isn't exactly what the FDA and Mothers Against Four Loko (aka, all of them) want to hear right now, or ever, but a new backfiery study out of Northern Kentucky University suggests that driving under the influence of Loko might be superior to driving under the influe ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint in South Los Angeles This Weekend

daytonadui.comFail.​Spring is here, the weather has warmed up, and the LAPD is gunning for your drunk ass. So, while the department can still nab you for walking while intoxicated (a.k.a. being drunk in public), we suggest that's a much better route, even in L.A., than driving after a tequila ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint In Los Angeles: Welcome To The Weekend

firemonkeyfishThese guys in your rearview.​Ah, it wouldn't be a gloriously sunny winter weekend in SoCal without drunkards behind the wheel and the good cops who bust 'em. Thanks to the LAPD, which thinks that letting you know in advance about checkpoints can reduce driving under the influenc ... More >>

[Map] Drunk Drivers Beware: DUI Checkpoint Near Abbott Kinney In Venice On Friday Night

Venice EntrepreneurNot so glamorous once they pull the breathalyzer out​Don't let your tax dollars go toward your own arrest this weekend. If you happen to find yourself driving down Washington Boulevard between Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Yale Avenue between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. on Friday night ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint Planned Near Van Nuys Airport Tonight, So Fly Straight

Don't drink and drive, especially near Van Nuys airport.​It's Friday, and you know what that means. It's time for your weekly DUI checkpoint in Los Angeles. The LAPD says it sets these things up for your own safety -- and that it targets areas where there have been problems with drunk drivers ... More >>

LAPD Plans DUI Checkpoint For Friday Night In Sherman Oaks

Steve Lyon via Flickr​Boy do we have news for you. The LAPD has a DUI checkpoint in the works for Sherman Oaks -- and we know the time and place. Why are we so enthused about this tidbit? Because for whatever reason, you guys clearly love checkpoint news. Whenever we post about LAPD checkpoi ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Reportedly Tests Positive For Cocaine; Could Be Headed Back To Jail

​TMZ reported Friday that Linsday Lohan failed a recent drug test that's part of her probation and that she was positive for cocaine. If true she could be headed back to the county jail for women for as many as 30 days, the site reported. The 24-year-old actress spent three weeks in drug reha ... More >>

Wynn Resorts Bans Paris Hilton Following Arrest For Alleged Cocaine Possession

​Wynn Resorts banned Paris Hilton from its two hotels on the Las Vegas strip Wednesday, while her boyfriend Cy Waits has been released as managing partner for the properties' Tryst and XS nightclubs, the Associated Press reports. Wynn spokeswoman Jennifer Dunne told the paper that Hilton is b ... More >>

Paris Hilton Arrested In Vegas After Cocaine Allegedly Found In Her Possession

​Is anyone surprised? Party girl Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night in Las Vegas after police said they found cocaine in her purse. Hilton has already hired a top Vegas lawyer, David Chesnoff, who asks us "not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of la ... More >>

LAPD Plans DUI And Drivers License Checkpoints For The Weekend

​(Ladies and) gentlemen, don't start your engines. It's going to be a big weekend for DUI checkpoints. What's the occasion? We don't know. It's not the 4th of July or even New Year's Eve, but the men and women in blue will be out in force in the city of Los Angeles. So be on your best behavior ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Due In Beverly Hills Court Tuesday Morning

​The swallows might not always return to San Juan Capistrano these days, but the television news helicopters will buzz high above Beverly Hills like clockwork Tuesday morning as Lindsay Lohan was scheduled to appear in Superior Court there. It has become somewhat of a supernatural tradition, ... More >>

Car Breathlyzers Now Required For Los Angeles DUI Offenders

mrjorgen via flickr​Beginning on Thursday, DUI offenders in Los Angeles County will have to install ignition-locking breathlyzers in their cars. If the breathlyzer detects alcohol in their breath, the car will not start. The law starts on an experimental basis for five years in Los Angeles, A ... More >>

LAPD Chief Beck Addresses Drinking Problems In The Department

​Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck took the unusual step of addressing "employee wellness" and drinking and DUI problems within the Los Angeles Police Department in a statement posted at the LAPD's blog this week. In it he cited recent statistics that show about 21 LAPD employees a year ge ... More >>

Mayor: Santana could be out "weeks," or "longer than that"

​At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was asked about the city's top budget official, Miguel Santana, who entered treatment after being arrested for DUI last week."My heart and my prayers are with him and his family," the mayor said, adding that Santana may need some ti ... More >>

Are DUI Checkpoints Targeting Illegal Immigrants?

​A recent report by California Watch questions whether California's ubiquitous, weekend DUI checkpoints are really nets cast to seize the vehicles of illegal immigrants. The state-aided checkpoints, which net $40 million annually in fines and seizures, are often in or near Latino neighborhoods ... More >>

Use Twitter, Go To Jail?

​Screenwriter Roger Avery, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Pulp Fiction, was back in prison this weekend after enjoying some freedom via a work-furlough program. Avary, who had been in trouble with the law over a 2008 drunk-driving crash that killed a passenger, had been tweetin ... More >>

Mysterious Bounty Hunter Shooting

It was a story that captured people's attention this morning because it conjured images of Dog the Bounty Hunter in a reality TV episode gone wrong. The Associated Press reported that a Sun Valley man had been shot in the leg last night during an altercation with three bounty hunters who had come to ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Don't Call Him "Padre" Sheik Qazi Asad has become the LAPD's first Muslim chaplain. The Pakistani-born cleric had previously worked as a Sheriff's Department liaison to the county's Islamic community. L.A. Times Time to Pay Los Angeles County's sales tax jumps half a percent to 9.75 percent on July ... More >>

Accused Nick Adenhart Killer: 'Not Guilty'

City News Service reports that Andrew Thomas Gallo, the 22-year-old San Gabriel man accused of driving the car that killedFullerton P.D.Andrew Thomas GalloL.A. Angel's pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, pleaded not guilty in a Santa Ana court today. Gallo, who is being held in lieu of $2 million ... More >>

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