June 19, 2013
NY Woman Indicted for Pot Growing
A woman from a ritzy New York suburb has been indicted on charges that she grew thousands of marijuana plants in a city warehouse. The U.S. attorney in Brooklyn says Andrea Sanderlin of Scarsdale had a sophisticated pot-raising operation in the Maspeth section of Queens. Sanderlin, mother of two daughters, pleaded not guilty in May when she was arrested on a federal complaint. She has since been held without bail. Read more...
Fatal Drunk Driver Fails Test
A problem has arisen for a 21-year-old University of Miami student who turned herself in to begin a prison sentence for a deadly drunk driving accident. Ivanna Villanueva, along with her attorney and family members, arrived at the Miami-Dade courthouse on Tuesday morning for a final hearing before she would officially surrender. As part of the process, she was required to take a drug test. Villanueva was unable to complete the first test. During a second test, the result tested positive for a banned substance. Read more...
June 18, 2013
Missouri Linebacker Dismissed From Team
A backup Missouri linebacker arrested during the 2012 season on drug charges has been dismissed from the team. Team spokesman Chad Moller says redshirt freshman linebacker Torey Boozer is no longer a member of the Tigers. He declined further comment. Boozer was arrested in October on marijuana possession charges along with classmates Dorial Green-Beckham and Levi Copelin after the three teammates were reportedly smoking pot in a campus parking lot near Memorial Stadium. Read more...
June 17, 2013
Man Gets DUI on Shopping Cart
Police arrested an Alaska man who they say was driving a motorized shopping cart while drunk and in possession of stolen cookies and cake mix. Merrill K. Moses, 63, was arraigned this week in Fairbanks on charges of drunken driving, shoplifting and refusing to take an official sobriety test. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 5. A grocery store employee called police after seeing Moses drive into parking lot traffic. The employee was worried that Moses would collide with a car. Read more...
June 14, 2013
Sen. Mary Landrieu's Son Arrested on DWI
Frank Connor Snellings, 21, the son of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated, hit-and-run driving, and driving the wrong way on a one-way street in the French Quarter, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. The car Snellings was driving hit a pedestrian, who was not seriously injured, according to the sheriff's report. Snellings and a passenger in his car were not hurt. Police said Snellings failed a field sobriety test. A breathalyzer test result measured .211. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan Transfers to Cliffside
Lindsay Lohan transferred from Betty Ford Center to Cliffside Rehabilitation Center in Malibu. Lohan completed a 30-day program at the Betty Ford Center, located in Rancho Mirage, Calif., before transferring to Cliffside. Lohan was sentenced to serve 90 days "in a lockdown rehabilitation center, 30 days of community service, and 18 months of mandated psychotherapy" after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges after a June 2012 car accident, according to Fox News. The transfer to Cliffside Malibu was approved by all parties, including Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Holley, the prosecutors and the judge. Read more...
June 13, 2013
Michael Turner Gets Probation for DUI
Former Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has finally received his punishment dating back to a DUI charge last September. A judge handed Turner 12 months probation, a $1,000 fine and 30 days of community service. According to John Manasso, Turner also agreed to "risk reduction (DUI school), alcohol and drug evaluation, no alcohol consumption and random screens." Read more...
Mom Injects 5-Year-Old With Drugs
A Phoenix woman is in custody on allegations that she injected her 5-year-old daughter with methamphetamine and amphetamine. Police say 30-year-old Jacqueline Trousdale is being held on suspicion of child abuse and endangering the life and health of a minor. A family member called authorities in October, saying Trousdale was doing drugs in front of her two daughters, ages 5 and 6. Authorities say the girls told police their mother had injected them with drugs, and state Child Protective Services took custody of the children. Read more...
June 12, 2013
Teacher Allegedly Drunk on Field Trip
Janesville police say an elementary-school teacher who passed out while supervising a field trip to a bowling alley was legally drunk. Maria Caya, 50, was conducting a field trip that included fourth-graders from Washington Elementary School. A police report says she became sick and passed out. District spokesman Brett Berg says the teacher's husband took her home and later to a hospital, where her blood-alcohol level was 0.27 percent. Read more...
June 11, 2013
Man Sentenced in Heroin Overdose Deaths
A Waukesha man was sentenced to two concurrent 12-year-prison sentences for the heroin overdose deaths of a man and a woman, according to court records. Kevin S. Cobus, 27, was also sentenced to two concurrent eight-year terms on extended supervision in the deaths of Jamie L. Hansen, 24, of Muskego, and Cody C. Riggs, 26, of Delafield, according to the records. Cobus was convicted April 4 of two counts of first-degree reckless homicide by delivery of drugs. Read more...
Shawne Merriman Hospitalized After Overdose
Shawne Merriman overdosed on a combination of alcohol and drugs Sunday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. Merriman was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at 9:30 p.m. He was tweeting just hours later, however, suggesting that he should come out of the incident okay. Read more...
Mark Grace Completes Jail Term
Former Arizona Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace has been released from a Phoenix jail after completing a four-month DUI sentence under a work-release program. The 48-year-old former first baseman with the Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs pleaded guilty on Jan. 31 to felony endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol. He began his sentence on Feb. 10 in Maricopa County's outdoor Tent City. He was released Monday and must also serve two years of probation. Read more...
Indians Pitcher, Wife Plead to Drug Charges
Cleveland Indians pitcher Chris Perez and his wife, Melanie, have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor drug abuse after packages containing marijuana were delivered to their Rocky River home. The couple entered the pleas in Rocky River Municipal Court by fax, according to Chris Perez's attorney, Terry H. Gilbert. Police were notified about the packages after employees at the Rocky River postal office called them stating that they had two packages that smelled like marijuana. A police dog confirmed their suspicions and a warrant was issued to search the couples' rented home on Parklane Drive. Read more...
June 10, 2013
NYC Assemblyman Arrested For DWI
East Harlem Assemblymen Robert Rodriguez was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after refusing a breathalyzer test just outside of Albany. Rodriguez, 37, was pulled over on Interstate 87 North outside of exit 5 for failure to stay in a single lane. Once stopped, police noticed the odor of alcohol coming from Rodriguez as well as "watery blood shot eyes" and "slow speech." Rodriguez failed a sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer test, according to the police report. Read more...
Cody Longo Arrested on Suspicion of DUI
"Hollywood Heights" star Cody Longo has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Longo, who plays Eddie Duran in the hit Nickelodeon TV series, was stopped by cops in the early hours after he was allegedly spotted driving aggressively through Los Angeles, following too close to another driver and flashing his lights. Read more...
Erin Brockovich Gets Boating DUI
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, has been arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said. Brockovich was arrested after breath tests showed her blood-alcohol level was just over twice the legal limit of .08, said Edwin Lyngar, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. Read more...
June 07, 2013
P.J. Hairston Arrested For Pot
Durham police have charged North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston with marijuana possession following a traffic stop. Police spokeswoman Kammie Michael says in an email that officers stopped Hairston at a license checkpoint. Police also charged passengers Miykael Faulcon and Carlos Sanford with marijuana possession. All three were released on $1,000 unsecured bonds. Read more...
Josh Brent Tests Positive for Marijuana
Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent tested positive for marijuana while he awaits trial in a car crash that killed a teammate, prosecutors said in asking a judge to revoke the player's $100,000 bond and issue a warrant for his arrest. Police have accused Brent of driving with a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit during the Dec. 8 car crash that killed Jerry Brown, a Cowboys practice squad player. Prosecutors said in their motion that Brent failed a urine test taken after a May 24 court hearing in which they had sought for his bond to be revoked due to problems with his alcohol monitoring. While the judge declined to do so, he did order Brent to provide a urine sample. Read more...
Farrah Abraham Pleads Guilty in DUI Case
How's that for a sobering sentence? Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham officially pled guilty to her Nebraska DUI case this week, agreeing to six months probation, a $500 fine, and six months of court-mandated sobriety. The 22-year-old reality star struck a plea deal earlier this week, agreeing to fess up to driving drunk in her native Nebraska back in March in exchange for avoiding jail time. With Abraham's latest plea, however, she will be ordered to stay alcohol-free during her six months of probation, as well as install an ignition interlock device in her car. Read more...
June 06, 2013
Dunwoody Pain Doctor Arrested by DEA
A Dunwoody pain doctor was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill. Dr. Nisar Piracha, a nurse, and two patients were arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration at his medical practice. The DEA believes his medical office at 11 Dunwoody Park was operating as a pill mill. The agency would not talk about the specifics of the investigation. "Who would come from Kentucky or Ohio to be administered medications when you could go right around the corner in your state?" DEA spokesman Chuvallo Truesdell said. Read more...
Jesse James' Daughter in Drug Scandal
Jesse James's teenage daughter Chandler was recently spotted at a party smoking what appears to be crystal meth off of aluminum foil. Jesse confirmed through a written email that his daughter sought help to battle her drug addiction. 'My daughter spent the month of April in a treatment facility getting help for addiction,' he said in the statement. "She is out now and in recovery, actively participating in a 12-step program." Read more...
June 05, 2013
Adults Charged After Kids Call 9-1-1
Three people were arrested on several drug-related charges after police responded to a home where children admitted calling 911 and hanging up, police said. Officers with the Indiana State Police and the Miami County Sheriff's Department went to investigate a home after they received a 911 call and the caller hung up. When officers arrived, they could smell marijuana in the home so they searched the residence. Officers said they found marijuana, meth, chemical precursors for making meth, hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia during their search. Read more...
June 04, 2013
Blacks Singled Out for Marijuana Arrests
Black Americans were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested on charges of marijuana possession in 2010, even though the two groups used the drug at similar rates, according to new federal data. This disparity had grown steadily from a decade before, and in some states, including Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, blacks were around eight times as likely to be arrested. Read more...
Meth Lab Mom Charged
Police in eastern Pennsylvania say the mother of three young children taken from a meth-lab trailer is now in prison facing drug charges. Officers arrested 24-year-old Abby Burd of Mount Carmel after they say she had been supplying Sudafed, an ingredient used to make methamphetamine. Authorities also saw one of the children toddling around the area of the Nescopeck home where the drug was being cooked. Read more...
'Teen Mom' Gets DUI Plea Deal
"Teen Mom" turned porn star Farrah Abraham won't serve a day behind bars for DUI assuming the judge approves a plea deal she just struck with prosecutors. An official at the Douglas County D.A.'s Office said Farrah has agreed to plead guilty to aggravated DUI on June 20 in exchange, prosecutors agreed to ask for probation instead of jail. Farrah was arrested for DUI in Nebraska in March allegedly blowing a 0.147. Read more...
June 03, 2013
Lil Scrappy Checks Into Rehab
Rapper Lil Scrappy has entered a rehabilitation facility to kick his addiction to marijuana. The hip-hop star, real name Darryl Kevin Richardson II, checked into a treatment center in Atlanta, Georgia, and will remain there until a court hearing on June 16. Scrappy voluntarily decided to seek professional help for his habit after he allegedly failed a court-ordered drug test. Read more...
Bears' Evan Rodriguez Apologizes for DUI
Bears fullback Evan Rodriguez issued a statement Sunday through the team apologizing for his recent run in with the law. Rodriguez was ticketed on I-90 near Hubbard Street for driving under the influence, speeding and improper lane usage. The Bears said Friday they were looking into the incident. Rodriguez was arrested in March for disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence in Miami, but those charges were quickly dropped. Read more...
Philip Seymour Hoffman Enters Rehab
Philip Seymour Hoffman recently checked out of a rehab center after admitting himself for snorting heroin. Hoffman, who was nominated for an Oscar last year for his role in "The Master," had substance abuse problems over two decades ago that recently resurfaced. Hoffman had been using heroin for about a week when he realized things were spiraling downward. Read more...
May 31, 2013
Tabloids Helped Matthew Perry Recover
The unrelenting tabloid reports about Matthew Perry's drink problems ultimately helped the actor get sober because bartenders refused to serve him. The star secretly battled substance abuse issues at the height of his fame on hit TV show Friends, but his struggles eventually became public news, prompting Perry to enter rehab. Even though the 43 year old admits the constant media coverage was overwhelming at times, it actually played a huge role in his recovery - because fans were keen to help the actor get clean and kept him in line while he was out on the town. Read more...
May 30, 2013
Drunk Driver Wrecks During Sex
Luis Briones, a 25-year-old New Mexico man, faces multiple charges after police say he was having sex with a woman while driving drunk and crashed, ejecting the woman from the vehicle. Briones was found with one shoe on and his shorts on inside-out Monday night after he wrecked his Ford Explorer in Albuquerque. Police say Briones' female passenger was found naked outside the SUV after being ejected. She had deep cuts to her face and head. Read more...
Saints WR Joe Morgan Arrested for DUI
New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Morgan was arrested over Memorial Day weekend on a charge of suspicion of driving while intoxicated. State police booked Morgan on charges of DWI and for driving without a license. The police report indicated police found Morgan asleep behind the wheel on the side of an expressway. The trooper noticed that Morgan seemed intoxicated with bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, according to the report obtained by The Times-Picayune. His blood-alcohol content registered 0.218 percent, more than twice the 0.08 percent legal limit, according to the report. Read more...
May 29, 2013
American Woman Held in Mexico
An American woman who went to Mexico for a family funeral has been stuck there for nearly a week, accused of smuggling drugs and facing a potential 10-year prison sentence. Yanira Maldonado's family says she is a victim of Mexican corruption and is hopeful a judge frees her today. Six days ago, Maldonado and her husband, Gary, were on a bus to Phoenix after going to her aunt's funeral in Mexico. The bus was stopped at a military checkpoint outside Hermosillo, about 170 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, their relatives said. Read more...
Tampa Bay's Grimm Arrested for Drinking
Cody Grimm, the Virginia Tech star now playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was arrested in Leesburg and charged with public intoxication. The 26-year-old Fairfax native, once a gridiron standout at Oakton High, was back in the area for a wedding. Town police said the arrest happened at a Hampton Inn at 5:30 a.m. Court records show that Grimm has a hearing scheduled for July 9. Read more...
Bomber's Sister Charged in Drug Case
A sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects pleaded not guilty in a Hackensack, New Jersey, court to marijuana-related charges, her attorney said. Bella Tsarnaeva, 24, was arrested in December 2012 at her Fairview, New Jersey, apartment after police responded to a call about a domestic disturbance and found what they said was marijuana, said her attorney, Mario Blanch. Police searched the apartment after smelling marijuana and that Tsarnaeva was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Read more...
May 28, 2013
More Than 500 DUI Arrests in L.A.
More than 500 people were arrested for DUIs this holiday weekend. From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Sunday, officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 529 people for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The arrests were made during the "Avoid the 100 Los Angeles County DUI Campaign." Read more...
410 Nabbed for DUI in Tempe
Increased police presence this Memorial Day weekend helped keep drunk drivers off the street -- an improvement from years past. 410 people were arrested for DUI this weekend. 50 of those were for aggravated DUI, 360 for misdemeanor DUI, and 111 for extreme DUI. It's a major turn from last year, when there were 547 arrests. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Threatens to Sue
Actress Amanda Bynes, who was arrested last week on marijuana possession and other charges, has said she plans to sue the New York City Police Department and her family. In a series of tweets, Bynes again said she was not guilty of the charges against her, repeated her claim that the arresting officer entered her Manhattan apartment illegally, sexually harassed her and wrongfully arrested her. Read more...
May 27, 2013
Drunk Driver Hits 4 Patrol Cars
Authorities say a drunken driver smashed into four patrol cars and injured two troopers directing traffic near the NASCAR race in Concord. Investigators said Patrick Willis was driving too fast when he exited Interstate 485. Authorities say his car hit and jumped a curb and then smashed into four patrol cars on U.S. Highway 29. Officials say two troopers suffered minor leg injuries as they tried to get out of the way. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Denies Drug Accusations
Amanda Bynes has had a rough few days -- some might say, a rough few months -- landing in jail after allegedly tossing a marijuana bong out of her 36th-floor New York apartment window. The 27-year-old actress took to Twitter with a simple message: "Don't believe any reports." And she didn't stop there. Bynes insists, is "all lies." Read more...
Billy Joel Blames Wrecks on Depression
In a lengthy interview, singer Billy Joel says his infamous car crashes were not due to alcohol, but depression over breakups and 9/11. He said he was using alcohol to medicate his depression and he's still not abstitent, drinking a glass of wine with dinner. Read more...
May 24, 2013
Drugs Dealers Charged in 6 Murders
Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing. Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder announced on Thursday that 36-year-old Henry Burrell, of Fayetteville, Tenn., and 35-year-old Zakkawanda Moss, of New Market, Ala., are charged with six counts each of first-degree murder. The two men are jailed in Alabama on unrelated charges. Read more...
84-Year-Old Busted for Drug Trafficking
An 84-year-old Albuquerque woman on an oxygen tank has been indicted for drug trafficking. Lillie Smith was recently indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury for trafficking, conspiracy to commit trafficking, tampering with evidence and possession. Court documents show the charges stem from a warrant served at her apartment in 2011. Read more...
2 Killed in Drug Store Robbery
An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. District Attorney Jimmy Dunn said a former police officer in Bean Station was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and robbery at the Down Home Pharmacy. Dunn said the former officer, 37-year-old Jason B. Holt, took "a large quantity of pills" during the late-morning robbery. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Arrested in Midtown Apartment
Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested by police in her Midtown apartment after officers caught her throwing drug paraphernalia out the window, law enforcement sources said. The doorman at Bynes' building on West 47th Street called police to report she was smoking marijuana in the lobby, sources said. When officers arrived, Bynes had returned to her apartment on the 36th floor. Officers observed a bong inside Bynes' apartment as she opened the door, the sources said. That's when she allegedly grabbed it and tossed it out of the window. Read more...
May 23, 2013
Former Bachelorette: I'm an Alcoholic
Jet-setting getaways. Swoon-worthy boat rides. Steamy candlelit snogging. The Bachelorette isn't short on peddling breathtaking romantic fantasies, but for onetime star Meredith Phillips, life after all those rose ceremonies offered a hard dose of reality. The 39-year-old reveals to People magazine that she has struggled with alcoholism, as she recounts the harrowing depths of her addiction and the battles she's waged to overcome it. Read more...
May 22, 2013
Chief Keef Arrested for Disorderly Conduct
South Side rapper Chief Keef was arrested near Atlanta for disorderly conduct after hotel security smelled marijuana smoke coming from his room, police said. The disorderly conduct arrest comes two months after he was released from custody in Chicago for a probation violation. Officers arrived at a Dunwoody hotel and spoke with Chief Keef, then arrested him for disorderly conduct for smoking marijuana, according to a police report. Read more...
Kerry Kenedy's DUI Not Dismissed
Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is likely to go on trial in the fall after a town judge refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against her. Kennedy "cut a wide swath of danger and risk" on July 13 as she drove her Lexus on Interstate 684 near her home north of New York City, swerving into a tractor-trailer, Justice Elyse Lazansky wrote in a ruling filed in North Castle Town Court. Read more...
May 21, 2013
Barbara Walters' Daughter Arrested for DUI
Revered U.S. broadcaster Barbara Walters' daughter was arrested over the weekend for driving under the influence. Jacqueline Danforth was taken into custody and booked in Florida after traffic cops pulled her over near Naples. She has been released on a $1,000 bond. Danforth, 44, is The View host's adopted daughter with her second husband, theatre producer Lee Guber. Read more...
Jack Osbourne: 'Dad Relapsed But Sober Now'
Jack Osbourne is playing down the drama surrounding his father Ozzy's recent relapse, insisting he was not surprised when the heavy rocker started boozing and using drugs again. As a recovering addict himself, the reality Tv star insists no one is guaranteed full sobriety after kicking their bad habits - and his dad is just like millions of troubled souls who slip back. Read more...
May 20, 2013
4-Year-Old Found With Alcohol Poisoning
The father of a 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy is begging for answers after his daughter was found with alcohol poisoning last month. Paul Silva has temporary custody of Le'A, who was three years old at the time, as Weber County Sheriff's detectives investigate the incident in which her mother called 911 to report her unresponsive at her Marriott-Slaterville apartment on April 11. Le'A's mother had primary custody of her prior to the incident and Paul was allowed visitation every other weekend. "I was at work and I got a call saying that my daughter is not breathing and she's getting rushed in the ambulance to the hospital," Paul said. "They did a bunch of tests and they ended up finding alcohol. Her blood alcohol [content] was way high." Read more...
May 18, 2013
Pregnant Teenager Arrested for DUI
An 18-year-old was arrested for DUI and possession of unlawful drug paraphernalia in Johnson City. Police said Goldie Jean Greene was swerving while driving, then was lethargic and had slurred speech when they pulled her over. Officers say they found a marijuana pipe in Greene's front seat, and she pulled another from her bra. She also admitted to officers she had smoked a bowl of marijuana. Read more...
Jets' Goodson Faces Drug and Gun Charges
Jets running back Mike Goodson was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and of a loaded firearm, the New Jersey State Police said. Goodson, who turns 26 next week, was the passenger in an S.U.V. that had stopped in the westbound left lane of Interstate 80 in Denville, N.J. The driver of a tow truck noticed the vehicle and called 911 because Goodson and the driver, Garant Evans, 31, of Roselle, N.J., appeared intoxicated. About 3:20 a.m., troopers arrived and detected a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car, a state police spokesman said. They also discovered a handgun. Read more...
May 17, 2013
Randy Travis Sues Over DUI Video
Country music star Randy Travis has sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Office of the Attorney General after some evidence from his drunken-driving arrest last summer was ordered released to the public. Travis in January pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. The arrest video was collected Aug. 7 after Travis was found naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am near Tioga. Read more...
May 16, 2013
Hikers Won't Have to Pay for Rescue
Two hikers lost for days in the Southern California wilderness won't be charged the $160,000 it took to find them. County supervisors made that decision in closed session. Board of Supervisors Chairman Shawn Nelson said he thinks there's no legal way to force the hikers to reimburse their rescue costs — even though one is charged with a drug crime. Nineteen-year-old Nicolas Cendoya and 18-year-old Kyndall Jack were rescued from the Cleveland National Forest last month after spending several days there without food or much water. Read more...
Shocker: Tommy Chong Backs Legalization
The Grammy Award-winning comedy duo Cheech and Chong based their 42-year career on counterculture humor with a particular emphasis on marijuana use. But these days Tommy Chong sees the recreational drug as something more than fodder for jokes about stoned hippies. The 74-year-old comedian thinks legalizing marijuana on a federal level would offer numerous benefits, including a boost to the U.S. economy if it were taxed. "Look at the situation we're in now. Sequesters. Cuts. Everything cut across the board. Now, the government is tapped into the biggest cash crop in the world," Chong said. Read more...
May 15, 2013
Drug Lord Found Guilty of 12 Murders
A federal jury has found Philadelphia drug trafficker Kaboni Savage guilty of 12 murders dating back to 1998. Six of the 12 victims were were members of a North Philadelphia family. Prosecutors said that as revenge against a former gang member who leaked information to the FBI, Savage firebombed a home with four kids and two adults inside, killing them all. Read more...
Drunk Student Left at Hospital With Note
An Arizona State University student who passed out from drinking tequila was left in wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note to tell doctors that he took part in a drinking competition. Tempe police say the 19-year-old student was found in the emergency room lobby of St. Luke's Hospital. Police say a sticky note on the student's body gave his name and said he'd been drinking and needed help. Hospital staff noticed the student and helped him. Read more...
U.S. Board Proposes Tougher DUI Threshold
A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally drunk should be lowered in an effort to reduce alcohol-related car crashes that claim about 10,000 lives each year, U.S. safety investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood-alcohol content (BAC) to 0.05. The idea is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths. Read more...
Former NFL Star Chuck Muncie Dies
Chuck Muncie, who blended speed and power to become one of the N.F.L.'s leading running backs of the late 1970s and early '80s, but whose career was cut short by drug abuse, died at his home in Perris, Calif. He was 60. Muncie went to prison in 1989 in a drug case, but he turned his life around and helped disadvantaged children through a foundation he created. Read more...
Dylan Patton Arrested for Selling Cocaine
Former Days Of Our Lives star Dylan Patton has been arrested in a police raid for allegedly selling cocaine at his home. The actor was arrested at his Agoura Hills home in California after an undercover police operation which saw an officer attempt to buy the drug from Patton. Police said after being told cocaine was being sold on the premises the officer approached Patton, and allegedly purchased a quantity of obtain. Read more...
May 14, 2013
Prom Limo Driver Arrested for DUI
A limousine driver who was allegedly drunk when he drove more than 20 suburban Chicago teenagers to a prom says he wasn't intoxicated and that mechanical problems caused his erratic driving. Richard L. Madison says the wheels of the party bus he was driving were out of alignment. He says that caused it to move erratically as he drove the teens to high school prom in DuPage County. Read more...
Deputy Arrested for Helping Drug Dealer
A former Thomas County Sheriff's Office deputy is accused of alerting a suspect in a drug deal about law enforcement activities involving the suspected drug dealer. Ronald Haggins Jr., 39, 111 Wise St., is charged with violation of oath by public officer and obstruction of officer, both felonies. "Based on facts of the investigation, he was terminated," Thomas County Sheriff Carlton Powell said. Read more...
May 13, 2013
4th Bench Warrant Issued for Orlando Brown
Troubled actor Orlando Brown is wanted by authorities after skipping a court hearing relating to his 2011 arrest for driving under the influence (DUI). The former That's So Raven regular was scheduled to prove that he had completed an alcohol education program and attended alcohol counselling sessions as part of his probation for the two-year-old case, but when he failed to show, the Los Angeles judge issued a bench Warrant allowing police to take him into custody. Read more...
Jeff Hanneman Died of Cirrhosis
Members of Slayer say Jeff Hanneman died of alcohol-related cirrhosis. The guitarist died last week at a hospital in Hemet, Calif., at age 49. It was initially theorized that Hanneman's death might have had something to do with a suspected spider bite that led to a case of necrotizing fasciitis, nearly costing him his arm. The band disclosed Hanneman's cause of death on its website, and a publicist said Friday the determination was made by his attending physician. Read more...
May 10, 2013
Colorado Sets Taxes, Rules for Pot
Colorado is set to become the first U.S. state to regulate and tax sales of recreational marijuana, after lawmakers approved several bills that set business standards and rules. Legislators expect enforcement of the rules to be paid for by two taxes on marijuana — a 15 percent excise tax, and a 10 percent sales tax. Other measures included in the package set limits on how much marijuana visitors to Colorado can buy (a quarter of an ounce), as well as a limit on how many cannabis plants a private citizen can grow (six). Read more...
May 09, 2013
Atlanta Council Woman Charged With DUI
The day after being charged by an Atlanta police officer with driving under the influence, city council woman Cleta Winslow sat in a previously scheduled budget hearing for the city's police department. Winslow was arrested and hit with a battery of traffic charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol and driving on the wrong side of the road, police said. Her arrest comes just as each incumbent member of the council is preparing for re-election this November. Read more...
May 08, 2013
Tiger Woods Gets Intoxicated at Gala
Two recent high-profile appearances by Tiger Woods — far from any golf course — have a couple of friends of the links legend concerned. While Woods did appear overtly affectionate toward his new girlfriend, ski champ Lindsey Vonn, at Monday's glitzy Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I've heard the golfer's heavy drinking upset Vonn. "Lindsey was not happy about Tiger getting so loaded," said one observer. "Even before he stumbled on the stairs [at the post-party at Standard Hotel], Lindsey was urging him to stop boozing." Read more...
May 07, 2013
A Breath Test for Drugged Drivers?
Law enforcement and public health officials, struggling with a way to crack down on the growing problem of drugged driving, may be encouraged by a new Swedish study of breath testing which could mean the development of a roadside breathalyzer test for illicit drugs. Read more...
Browns' Armonty Bryant Arrested for DUI
Browns draft pick Armonty Bryant was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, the latest legal trouble for the defensive end. Bryant was arrested Friday in Ada, Okla., according to a police report. According to an arrest affidavit, Bryant was stopped near the stadium at East Central University, where he was a standout player for the Division II school. His blood-alcohol level was 0.098 percent. Read more...
Former Brave Otis Nixon Arrested
Former Major League outfielder Otis Nixon has been arrested on drug charges following a weekend traffic stop in suburban Atlanta. Nixon was pulled over just after midnight Saturday after another driver called police to report a Dodge Ram truck weaving all over the road. The 54-year-old remained in jail Monday afternoon on $11,880 bond. Officers found a pipe for smoking crack cocaine in Nixon's pants pocket and found a suspected crack rock in the driver's seat, the report says. They later found another pipe and more suspected crack rocks in the floor board of the driver's side, as well as other paraphernalia. Read more...
May 06, 2013
Bar-Drinking Mom Leaves 4 Kids in Car
A Long Island, N.Y., woman was arrested after police say she left her four children unattended in a car while she went drinking in a bar. Authorities say Maria Cepparo, 40, left her children in an unlocked, unheated car parked in a fire zone outside Momo's Sports Bar and Grill in Holbrook at around 12:15 a.m., according to authorities. The children — a 13-year-old son who is autistic, an eight-year-old son and six-year-old twin daughters — are now in the care of their grandmother. Read more...
Linday Lohan Says Rehab Is 'Pointless'
In an interview before entering the Betty Ford Center for a court-ordered 90-day rehab stint, Linday Lohan claimed in an interview that she can quit drinking any time and prefers ecstasy over cocaine. She also said she has a prescription for Adderall and Trazodone, but thinks sending her back to rehab is pointless. Read more...
May 04, 2013
Boy, 3, Shoots Himself With Granny's Gun
An Arizona toddler died after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his 35-year-old grandma's hand gun, police said. Darrien Nez, who was just 3 years old, picked Rachel Spry's 9mm pistol out of her backpack, which also contained a meth pipe. Read more...
Overdose Suspected in Death of Chris Kelly
A drug overdose may have led to the death of Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly. Kelly's mother, Donna Kelly Pratte, told authorities that her son became sick after taking cocaine and heroin on the night before he died, according to a police report. Pratte and Kelly's uncle, Lamar Williams, told police that Kelly had a history of drug abuse and experienced similar episodes in the past. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan Checks Into Betty Ford
Lindsay Lohan dodged jail yet again. The "Mean Girls" star checked into California's Betty Ford Center shortly before midnight Friday, barely making a court deadline after she bolted from another rehab early Thursday. The eleventh-hour save came after a prosecutor warned that he planned to seek a warrant if she didn't land in a rehab bed by midnight. Read more...
May 03, 2013
Rescued Hiker Charged With Meth
One of the two teenage hikers who were rescued after a four-day search of Southern California wilderness has been charged with felony methamphetamine possession. Prosecutors charged 19-year-old Nicolas Cendoya after authorities found the drug in his vehicle while responding to their disappearance. Cendoya and 18-year-old Kyndall Jack called investigators from Holy Jim Canyon on Easter Sunday, saying they were lost and their cellphone was dying. Read more...
Seahawks Lynch DUI Trial Scheduled
Last year, after Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was arrested for DUI, some in the media assumed that Lynch would serve a suspension during the 2012 season. Lynch's case will go to trial on June 21. Later this month, the presiding judge will consider a motion to dismiss the case and to suppress certain evidence relating to it. Read more...
Reese Witherspoon Gets $200 Fine
Actress Reese Witherspoon has pled no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and slapped with a $200 fine. The Legally Blonde star was not in court but represented by her lawyer. Her husband Jim Toth pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and will have to perform 40 hours of community service and attend an alcohol education program. He was also placed on probation for a year. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan's Rehab Has No License
The Newport Beach rehab facility which Lindsay Lohan entered as part of her sentence for lying to police in a reckless driving case has no license to provide alcohol or drug treatment as required by the judge, officials said. The actress entered Morningside Recovery LLC in Newport Beach on Thursday, her attorney Mark Heller told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Dabney. Heller told the judge that the facility fully complied with the requirement that it provide 90 days of therapy in a setting where Lohan could not leave. Read more...
May 02, 2013
Kenny Anderson Loses Coaching Job After DUI
He has said he'd like to one day coach basketball at the college level, maybe even at Georgia Tech. After a weekend DUI arrest, Kenny Anderson is looking for a job sooner than he planned. The former Tech and NBA star was let go Wednesday from his coaching job at a small, private school in south Florida, The Palm Beach Post reported. Anderson, 42, was arrested early Saturday and charged with DUI in Pembroke Pines, Fla., the newspaper reported. It was his second arrest since being hired at the school in 2011. Read more...
May 01, 2013
Arias Juror Arrested for 'Extreme DUI'
The juror excused from the Jodi Arias trial last week had been arrested on a charge of extreme DUI the previous weekend. According to a Gilbert Police Department report, the juror, 52-year-old Daniel Gibb, allegedly had a blood alcohol content of .206—more than twice the legal limit—when he was pulled over at 9:49 p.m. on April 20. The report stated that an officer observed Gibb's vehicle drifting into a residential bike lane twice before he pulled him over. Gibb allegedly had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, and the officer claimed he could smell the odor of intoxicating beverage coming from the vehicle. Read more...
April 30, 2013
Narconon of Georgia Under Investigation
Narconon of Georgia, a alcohol and drug treatment facility associated with the Church of Scientology, is under investigation for massive insurance fraud. Officials from the Georgia Insurance Commissioner's office and law enforcement served a search warrant at the facility's Norcross offices last week. Investigators hauled off boxes full of documents and more than a dozen computers, according to reports. Read more...
Prep Wrestling Legend Arrested
Andrew Campolattano lost just once in his entire New Jersey prep wrestling career. Over the weekend, he equaled that total off the mat, getting arrested on felony drug charges. Campolattano and 15 others were charged with selling $13,500 in narcotics and an assault rifle to undercover Ohio police. Read more...
April 29, 2013
Jeffrey Wright Arrested for Drunk Driving
Jeffrey Wright was arrested for drunk driving in New York City. The "Catching Fire" actor, 47, was reportedly pulled over on a lower East Side street in the early morning hours after police spotted him driving erratically. Officers pulled the actor over in a Toyota Tacoma and conducted a field sobriety test after allegedly detecting the odor of alcohol coming from his vehicle. Read more...
Another 'Myrtle Manor' Cast Member Arrested
For the second time in three days, police arrested a cast member of "Welcome to Myrtle Manor" on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. Lindsay Brooke Colbert, 21, was charged Sunday morning with first-offense DUI, liquor law violation, speeding more than 15 over the limit and seatbelt violation. Colbert was arrested and, according to the report, yelled that police was picking on "them" and attempted to insult the officer by making racial slurs and other comments during the ride to Myrtle Beach jail. A breathalyzer administered at the jail showed Colbert had a blood alcohol content of 0.15. Read more...
April 27, 2013
Judge Orders Seized Pot Returned
Police in Washington may soon find themselves in real trouble if they ignore a judge's order to return marijuana they seized from a man during a traffic stop. Municipal Court Judge Jack Emery told Tacoma Police to return the drug to Joseph L. Robertson within seven days, or they could be found in contempt. The judge first ordered police to return the drug on Feb. 28, but they have refused. It was seized in May when an officer pulled over the Tacoma man for speeding. He was cited for driving without a license and misdemeanor marijuana possession. Read more...
3 Pitt Players Detained in Heroin Bust
Three University of Pittsburgh football players were detained in a heroin bust. Drew Carswell, Khaynin Mosley-Smith and Eric Williams were detained for use or possession of drug paraphernalia. Police, undercover officers and SWAT members raided an Oakland, Pa., home and seized 20 bags of heroin, a bong and a grinder. The raid came after an investigation that led to undercover agents purchasing heroin from Darnell Reed-Young. Reed-Young was arrested before police raided the home. Read more...
'Myrtle Manor' Star Arrested for DUI
A star of Myrtle Manor, a television show based in Myrtle Beach, was arrested early Friday on suspicion that she was driving under the influence of alcohol after officers were called to a vehicle crash, according to authorities. Amanda Lee Adams, 26, was charged with first-offense driving under the influence after officers were called just before 4:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach for a vehicle crash, according to reports. She blew a 0.20. Read more...
April 26, 2013
Inmate Died of Meth Overdose
An autopsy shows that an inmate found unresponsive in his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary died from a methamphetamine overdose. Mark Stacey was found in his cell Dec. 9 and pronounced dead later that night. According to court records, two balloons containing methamphetamine were found in Stacey's gastrointestinal system. An affidavit says one of the balloons was intact and another had ruptured. Read more...
Smoking Pot Off Duty Can Get You Fired
Coloradans may be able to legally smoke pot now — but lighting up a joint, even off the clock, can still get you fired. Although Centennial State voters approved a measure last fall to legalize marijuana use, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that employees can still be fired for testing positive for the drug -- even if they never show up to work impaired. A divided panel of judges decided that because marijuana use is illegal under federal law, employees are not protected from being terminated for using it. Read more...
Yankees Prospect Williams Charged With DUI
Highly regarded Yankees prospect Mason Williams was reportedly arrested in Tampa, Fla., early Thursday and charged with driving under the influence. Williams is ranked by MLB.com as the No. 2 prospect in the Yankees' system. According to a New York Daily News report, the outfielder blew below the legal limit of .08 in two breath tests, but did not pass a field sobriety test given when the 21-year-old displayed "clues of impairment." Read more...
April 25, 2013
DUI Defendant Shows Up Drunk
An Ellsworth man on his way into the McLean County Law and Justice Center to dispute a drunken-driving charge came to the building intoxicated and struck a court security officer during a struggle for his car keys, police said. When officers questioned Michael D. Schroyer, 48, about his alleged unsteady gait and asked if he had been drinking, Schroyer responded, "Hell, yeah. I drink every day," according to sheriff's police reports. Read more...
April 24, 2013
Man Arrested After Daughter, 6, Eats Meth
A 28-year-old Seattle man has been arrested in Oregon after his 6-year-old daughter ate methamphetamine from a baggie in his car, sheriff's officials said. Authorities said the little girl had an upset stomach after the incident, but is otherwise in good health. She was placed in foster care. The father, Elijah Benbow, 28, of Seattle was booked on charges including child neglect and meth possession. Read more...
'Teen Mom' Jenelle Evans Arested for Heroin
"Teen Mom 2? star Jenelle Evans was arrested in Caswell Beach, NC for possession with intent to manufacture, sell, distribute heroin, simple assault and simple possession of a schedule II controlled substance. The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office also served Evans with an outstanding warrant for failure to pay child support. Read more...
April 23, 2013
'Three Doors Down' Bassist Charged With DUI
Robert Todd Harrell, bassist of the rock band 3 Doors Down, was charged with vehicular homicide after causing a car crash that took the life of another man on the road Friday, according to police. Harrell, 41, was reportedly under the influence of several narcotics including hard cider, prescription Lortab and Xanax, according to police reports. The crash took the life of Paul Howard Shoulders Jr., 47, who was ejected from his pickup truck after the vehicle lost control. Police reports say he was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. Read more...
April 22, 2013
Gunfire Erupts at Colorado Pot Event
Authorities are hunting for suspects after shooting broke out during a massive marijuana celebration in Denver, leaving two people with gunshot wounds. The gunfire scattered thousands attending Saturday's 4/20 counterculture holiday, the first since Colorado legalized marijuana. A man and a woman each suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds, officials said. Local media reports said a third person was grazed. Read more...
Sportscaster Al Michaels Charged With DUI
The man revered for yelling "Do you believe in miracles?" as the U.S. hockey team upset the mighty Soviets in the 1980 Winter Olympics was arrested and charged with misdemeanor DUI in Southern California, Santa Monica police said. Sgt. Ryan Gradle said Michaels, the current play-by-play announcer for NBC's "Sunday Night Football," was extremely cooperative and was released on his own recognizance. Michaels was arrested shortly before 10 p.m., then spent a little more than five hours in the Santa Monica City Jail, the Los Angeles Inmate Information Center said. Read more...
April 20, 2013
UM Linebacker Arrested on Drug Charges
University of Miami football player Gabe Terry has been arrested on felony drug charges. Terry, 19, a backup outside linebacker and rising sophomore, has been suspended indefinitely from the football team, according to Chris Freet, spokesperson for the university's athletic department. Terry had 26.8 grams of marijuana, when Coral Gables Police arrested him. Possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana is a felony. Read more...
April 19, 2013
Woman Gets 4 Years for Fatal DUI Crash
A woman who was sentenced to 30 months in prison for DUI manslaughter in May 2011 has been resentenced by order of the Florida's First District Court of Appeal. Franziska Schroff will serve a four-year minimum mandatory prison term, then spend two years under house arrest and another nine years on probation. Okaloosa County Circuit Court Judge William Stone originally suspended all but 30 months of a 15-year sentence for Schroff, who was driving under the influence when she hit a utility pole and killed a passenger in her car. Read more...
April 18, 2013
FDA Blocks Generic OxyContin
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected the manufacture of generic versions of OxyContin in it's original form. The agency said that the risk of original OxyContin outweighs the benefits of the drug, because of its potential to be abused. The decision was announced on the day the drug's patent expired, the point at which other manufacturers would have been able to produce generic versions. Read more...
Court Rejects Warrantless Blood Tests
A man charged with drunk driving won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, after the justices concluded police should have first obtained a warrant before conducting a blood test against his will, shortly after arrest. At issue was a balancing test between timely gathering of accurate evidence and privacy interests. The high court struck down Missouri's guidelines giving police broad discretion to forego getting a judge's prior approval before executing a search. Read more...
April 17, 2013
Brewers' Yovani Gallardo Arrested for DUI
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo was arrested and charged with drunken driving after authorities say he was traveling on a city highway near Miller Park with a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit. Deputies responded about 2 a.m. to a report of a possibly intoxicated driver, Milwaukee County sheriff's spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin said. She said a caller reported seeing a driver repeatedly swerving between lanes, and deputies spotted Gallardo driving alone at 40 mph in a 55-mph zone. Read more...
April 16, 2013
Crowds to Test New Pot Laws on 4/20
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours. The events and crowds will test the limits of new laws permitting pot use by adults. More than 50,000 are expected to light up outdoors in Denver's Civic Center Park on April 20 to celebrate marijuana legalization. Thousands more are headed here for the nation's first open-to-all Cannabis Cup, April 20-21, a domestic version of an annual marijuana contest and celebration in Amsterdam. Read more...
'Honey Badger' Failed 10 LSU Drug Tests
Apparently the Honey Badger missed out on D.A.R.E. and just said yes, over and over. Former LSU cornerback and NFL prospect Tyrann Mathieu, known as the "Honey Badger," told an NFL team he failed so many drug tests in college that he quit counting at 10. But based on one NFL's coach reaction, it seems Mathieu's honesty really was the best policy. State and federal regulations require professional athletes to submit to regular drug testing. Because athletes get tested so often, an assistant coach for one NFL team felt Mathieu's statement said just as much about LSU as it did about Mathieu: "If he flunked 10 tests before they suspended him, it shows that he got no kind of help," he said.
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April 15, 2013
Comedian Kevin Hart Arrested for DUI
Authorities say comedian Kevin Hart was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his black Mercedes nearly collided with a tanker trunk on a Southern California freeway. California Highway Patrol Officer Ed Jacobs says Hart appeared intoxicated when he was pulled over before dawn on Highway 101 in Los Angeles. Hart failed a field sobriety test and was booked for misdemeanor DUI. He was released after payment of a $5,000 bond. Read more...
April 12, 2013
Miami Students Sickened by Brownies
Police arrested a 22-year-old man on drug charges after nine Miami high school students were hospitalized after eating what officials described as brownies containing an unidentified substance. Authorities charged Dionisio Lockridge with possession of marijuana and cocaine and found brownies similar to the ones eaten by the students during a search in his house, officials said. Paramedics were called to the Miami Coral Park Senior High School shortly after classes started when several students complained of feeling ill. Read more...
DUI Was Wake-Up for WR Kenny Stills
"Looking back at that situation now, it's the worst/best thing that has happened to me," Kenny Stills said. "To learn from that situation in college and the repercussion being sitting out a game - and embarrassing myself, my family and my team - I let everybody down. I let my parents down, let my team down. It's something you never want to experience again." Read more...
April 11, 2013
Teen Escapee Was Drunk in Nevada Crash
Prosecutors say a California juvenile detention escapee had a blood-alcohol percentage of 0.12 after a freeway a crash that killed five Southern California family members and injured two others. Eighteen-year-old Jean Ervin Soriano was charged with seven felony driving under the influence charges and two misdemeanors in the early March 30 wreck on Interstate 15 outside Las Vegas. Read more...
Woman Faked Cancer to Buy Heroin
A Long Island woman has been indicted on charges of faking cancer so she could get donations to support her heroin addiction. Suffolk County prosecutors said an indictment charged 21-year-old Brittany Ozarowski, formerly of Selden, with fraud. Ozarowski hit up local businesses, approached neighbors, and even started a website and a Facebook page in order to collect donations to treat what she said was an aggressive cancer that had spread to her spine and brain. Read more...
'Marijuana Freak' Hurd to Plead Guilty
Former Bears receiver Sam Hurd will change his plea formally to guilty in Dallas in his federal drug case, his lawyer said. The former Northern Illinois player, currently in prison, is charged with drug conspiracy, accused of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana beginning in July 2011 and continuing through June 6, 2012. Read more...
April 10, 2013
'Benzo Fury' Party Drug Poses Risks
A new designer party drug being sold legally in the United States and the United Kingdom may pose more risks than its younger users realize. "Benzo Fury" may be dangerous to users because it produces both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects, researchers say. Because the drug is legal, young people erroneously think it is safe to use, the experts said. Read more...
Pilot Charged in Alcohol Incident
An American Eagle pilot has been charged with three gross misdemeanors after authorities say he failed a blood-alcohol test as he prepared to fly out of the Minneapolis airport in January. Forty-eight-year-old Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Jan. 4 after airport police said they smelled alcohol on his breath before a flight to New York City. Read more...
UW Tight End Charged With DUI
UW tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was charged today with a misdemeanor DUI by the Seattle City Attorney's office following its investigation into an incident on March 9 when the junior was arrested following a one-car accident on March 9. The Seattle City Attorney's office said Seferian-Jenkins registered a blood-alcohol level of .18 percent, above the state's legal limit of .08 percent. He will be sent a summons to appear in Seattle Municipal Court at a later date. Read more...
Orlando Brown Arrested for DUI
Former "That's So Raven" television star Orlando Brown was in custody after being arrested in North Hollywood on suspicion of drunk driving. Brown, 25, was arrested on Lankershim Boulevard and booked on suspicion of drunk driving. The actor was being held on a $26,000 arrest warrant from a previous DUI arrest, according to multiple media reports. Read more...
April 09, 2013
Man Reports Himself Driving Drunk
A northern Indiana man who called 911 and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road got his wish when a sheriff's deputy arrived. State Police say 24-year-old Matthew Devore of Loganspo State Police say Devore lost control of his car early Monday and it ended up in a grassy median with a flat tire. Read more...
April 08, 2013
Triple Slaying at Marijuana Grow House
Authorities in eastern Idaho are investigating the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found in a home that contained a marijuana grow operation. The deaths took place sometime between Thursday afternoon and evening by someone who had some type of relationship with the victims, the Oneida County Sheriff's Office said. The bodies were discovered Friday outside Holbrook, a town of about 400 people just north of the Idaho-Utah state line. Read more...
DUI Driver Dies After Police Use Taser
An investigation is under way after a suspected drunk driver died Friday after he was Tasered by police in Koreatown. According to authorities, LAPD officers pulled up to the scene of the car wreck around 11:20 p.m. The driver, police say, appeared to be drunk and was combative. "This individual was involved in a hit-and-run crime. There may be some intoxication involved, a lot of physical exertion and that is usually the case with Tasers," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. Read more...
Texas WR Sanders Arrested for DWI
University of Texas receiver Kendall Sanders has been arrested on a drunken-driving charge. A Texas A&M University police spokesman said Sanders was arrested after being stopped for an unspecified traffic violation about 2:40 a.m. The College Station street runs through campus but isn't on A&M property. Brazos County records show that Sanders was booked into the county jail just after 5 a.m. and released on $3,000 bond before 8 a.m. Read more...
April 05, 2013
Auburn Covered Up Widespread 'Spice' Use
One day after an independent website broke the story of bribery and corruption at Auburn prior to winning the 2010 football national championship, ESPN reported that the team used so much synthetic marijuana that it led to widespread failed drug tests. The ESPN investigation said top university official knew of failed drug tests and made an effort to keep the tests secret. Read more...
Alameda Ta'amu Gets Probation For DUI
Last year, Steelers rookie defensive lineman Alameda Ta'amu was involved in a DUI incident that extended far beyond the run-of-the-mill drunk driving arrest. A fourth-round pick in 2012, Ta'amu allegedly evaded the police, crashing his vehicle into other cars after nearly running over an officer whose gun was drawn. He was charged with felony counts of fleeing police, aggravated assault while driving drunk, and three counts of aggravated assault, along with 10 misdemeanors including resisting arrest, attempting escape, drunk driving, and failure to obey traffic laws. Ta'amu has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, and drunk driving. For his sentence, he'll spend four days in a "DUI hotel" and serve 18 months probation. Read more...
April 04, 2013
Woman With 24 Suspensions Gets DUI
A woman was accused of driving on a suspended license and crashing into a car while she was high on a substance. Ann Marie Cummings, 44, was charged with operating while intoxicated second offense and driving while license suspended or revoked. Police said the crash happened when Cummins rear-ended another car. Cummins tried to leave the scene, but did not get far. Read more...
DJ Clue Arrested on Drug Charges
Noted disc jockey and radio star DJ Clue was busted at a checkpoint in lower Manhattan and cops said they found drugs in his Range Rover. DJ Clue, 39, was charged for the illegal substances as well as for driving with a suspended license following the 2:15 a.m. stop on Varick St. His license, a police source said, had been suspended eight times. Read more...
John Clark Gable Denies Driving Drunk
John Clark Gable breaks silence after he was arrested after crashing into six parked vehicles for allegedly driving under influence. He said he "absolutely was not drinking" alcohol before the accident, saying the only medication he's currently taking is for a minor leg injury from mountain biking. The son of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, however, admits he fell unconscious for an unknown reason before his car crashed. According to him, the last thing he remembers was getting cut off by a van, and when he woke up, he had hit a phone pole. Read more...
April 03, 2013
Arizona Authorities Target Synthetic Drugs
County attorneys in Arizona who have targeted the proliferation of legal synthetic drugs like "spice" and "bath salts" are reportedly seeing their efforts make their way into the courtroom. The Arizona Republic reports that a federal indictment filed late last week in U.S. District Court in Phoenix reveals the international scope of the conspiracy to traffic those drugs and the large amounts of money that may be involved. Read more...
D.A. Fights Kennedy DUI Dismissal
New York prosecutors are asking a judge to deny a motion to dismiss a drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In court documents, prosecutors argue that Kennedy's case should move forward as it would for other first-time offenders. Lawyers for Kennedy had argued in a motion filed in North Castle Town Court last month that she had accidently taken a sleeping pill on July 13, 2012, before she swerved into a tractor-trailer on a highway and was arrested. Read more...
April 02, 2013
Drunk Burglar Found Passed Out in Closet
A burglar was found passed out drunk in a closet of a New Haven home. Police say the responded after the homeowner Michael Ross, 43, found blood and his kitchen window broken. After searching his home, Ross found Robert Mero, 52, unconscious and bleeding in his second floor bedroom closet. He had been drinking. Read more...
April 01, 2013
Teen Arrested After Crash Kills Five
Five members of a Southern California family were killed in southern Nevada when their van was rear-ended by an 18-year-old driver who was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said. The five dead were among seven family members who were in the van, authorities said. The other two — the 40-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old boy — were hospitalized in critical condition. The van was carrying a couple, their children and some aunts and uncles, he said. Killed were three men in their 40s, a teenage female and an adult female. Read more...
'Glee' Star Cory Monteith Checks Into Rehab
Glee star Cory Monteith has entered a rehab facility. The 30-year-old actor, who plays Finn on Fox's musical comedy/drama, "voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction," his publicist told People. He graciously asks for your respect and privacy as he takes the necessary steps towards recovery." Lea Michele, Monteith's girlfriend and castmate, also told the magazine: "I love and support Cory and will stand by him through this. I am grateful and proud he made this decision." Read more...
March 30, 2013
Couple Claims Home Illegally Searched
Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables. Adlynn and Robert Harte sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kanas City suburb of Leawood last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener — a sweep conducted by agencies in Kansas and Missouri that netted marijuana plants, processed marijuana, guns, growing paraphernalia and cash from several other locations. Read more...
March 29, 2013
Man Uses Prosthetic Penis for Drug Test
A St. Louis-area man is facing criminal charges alleging that he used a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test. Authorities say 34-year-old Sydney Levin was submitting a urine sample last week as part of his probation when an officer allegedly spotted him using a prosthetic, known as a Whizzinator. The device has been advertised as way to pass drug tests by using someone else's urine. Levin, of Lake St. Louis, was charged last week with possessing a forging instrument. Read more...
49 Arrested in $10M Oxycodone-Smuggling Ring
Authorities say 49 people have been arrested in a physician-led oxycodone smuggling ring that trafficked $10 million worth of drugs across several states. Dr. Hector Castro, a Manhattan physician, was arrested and charged with 39 counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court. Authorities say Castro and his assistant illegally distributed more than 500,000 pills in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Read more...
March 28, 2013
Buckwild Cast Member Lands Back in Jail
A "Buckwild" cast member is back behind bars in West Virginia. A judge ordered 24-year-old Salwa Amin back to Central Regional Jail after violating the terms of her previous release. Amin was charged last month with two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver and initially jailed on $200,000 bond. Defense attorney Michael Callaghan got that reduced to $100,000. She's now being held without bond. Read more...
March 27, 2013
Drunk Driver Passed Out in Middle of I-10
Authorities say an inebriated driver passed out behind the wheel of his car and came to a stop in the center lane of Interstate 10 in Kenner. Fortunately, no one was injured before police could rouse Leronne Triplett, 37, of Moss Point, Miss., according to Sgt. Brian McGregor, spokesman for the Kenner Police Department. Triplett was asleep in the front seat, McGregor said. Responding officers woke him and noted he smelled of alcohol and seemed unsteady on his feet, McGregor said. Triplett preformed poorly on a standard field sobriety test. His blood-alcohol content registered 0.128 percent. Read more...
March 26, 2013
Elementary Chaperone Drunk on Field Trip
A Palm Bay elementary school chaperone is facing charges after police said she got drunk and became combative on a bus returning from a field trip. Kathryn N. Wright, 58, faces charges of battery and disorderly intoxication in the March 21 incident. A police report says Wright put vodka in a water bottle and got drunk on the way back from a Lockmar Elementary trip to WonderWorks in Orlando. Read more...
$850K of Marijuana Stashed in RV
Federal agents on patrol near the Mexican border in eastern San Diego County over the weekend arrested a U.S. citizen trying to smuggle over $850,000 worth of marijuana into the United States, authorities reported. U.S. Border Patrol personnel working near the town of Boulevard spotted a person hiding in brush several hundred yards north of the international line, according to USBP public affairs. Searching the area, the officers encountered a 59-year-old man who was moving bundles from a 1996 Dodge Ram into a motor home. They questioned him and determined that a smuggling operation was in progress, officials said. Read more...
Mom Loses Kids After Meth Lab Discovery
Two people charged with having a one-pot meth lab in the same vehicle with two children, ages 5 and 3, remain in the Roane County Jail, charged with aggravated child abuse and making meth. Yolanda Nicole Lavignette's two children were taken to Roane Medical Center for decontamination, and her car was quarantined, Harriman Police Chief Randy Heidle said. The children were later placed in the custody of the Department of Children's Services, he said. Along with the 28-year-old Rockwood woman, the passenger in her car, Kevin Anthony Ray, 26, of Harriman was charged. Read more...
March 25, 2013
Couple Charged in Teen Alcohol Poisoning
A Long Island couple is free on bail after police said kids were drinking at an underage party at their house. Someone in the house called police after a teen at their house got alcohol poisoning, Suffolk County Police announced. Police said a party was going on when officers arrived at John and Stacie Butler's Sayville house. According to police, about 25 teens were gathered in an apartment separate from the home. Police said there were shot glasses and evidence of a beer drinking game when they arrived. Read more...
March 23, 2013
Pot Tourism Hot Issue in Colorado Legislature
Marijuana tourism is one of the biggest questions facing pot regulators in Colorado. A special legislative panel looking at marijuana regulations plans to discuss the question. The constitutional amendment approved by voters last year allows marijuana use by adults over 21. It doesn't specify whether only Colorado residents can use the drug, prompting speculation about marijuana tourism. Read more...
Trumaine Johnson Arrested for Misdemeanor DUI
St. Louis Rams cornerback Trumaine Johnson was arrested for DUI in Missoula, Montana. He was stopped at a intersection for not having his headlamps illuminated, Detective Sgt. Travis Welsh said. An investigation began and culminated in the driver's arrest for DUI, which was a misdemeanor charge. Johnson was cooperative throughout the incident and was in the car alone. He was offered a breath test which he refused, but Johnson was deemed intoxicated based on the totality of circumstances in the investigation. Read more...
March 22, 2013
Bobby Brown Spends 8 Hours in Jail
Bobby Brown has been released from jail after serving less than a day of his 55-day jail sentence for a driving under the influence conviction. A sheriff's spokesman said the 44-year-old R&B singer was released after eight hours and outfitted with an electronic ankle monitor Thursday because of jail overcrowding and good behavior. A spokeswoman for Brown said he is at home with his family. Read more...
Judge Tosses Nick Fairley's Plea Deal
Six months after pleading guilty in what he thought was deal to bury a DUI charge, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley today found himself back where he started. Mobile County Circuit Judge Sarah Stewart said she could not determine that prosecutors had agreed to let him participate in a pretrial diversion program that would have resulted in the dismissal of the charge as long as he complied with the terms of the program. Read more...
March 21, 2013
Bobby Brown Goes to Jail
Deputies handcuffed singer Bobby Brown and led him from a courtroom to a jail cell, as Whitney Houston's ex-husband began serving time for a drunken driving conviction. Although the judge sentenced Brown to 55 days behind bars for his second conviction in a year for driving under the influence, he will likely be free in eight or nine days, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. Good behavior rules and jail overcrowding guidelines add up to a sharp reduction in actual time served for county inmates, Whitmore said. Read more...
'Teen Mom' Farrah Abraham Arrested For DUI
The Teen Moms are no stranger to legal troubles, but the latest arrest came from an unusual suspect — Farrah Abraham! The 21-year-old was pulled over in the early morning of March 19 when she was driving and made a wide turn — almost hitting a police car. Although she avoided colliding with the police cruiser, Farrah was reportedly pulled over and given a field sobriety test by police, which she reportedly failed miserably. She was also given a breathalyzer test and blew a .147 — nearly twice the legal limit of .08 in Nebraska. Read more...
Rapper 'Too Short' Arrested for Drugs, DUI
Rapper "Too Short" was arrested in Hollywood on suspicion of drunken driving and drug possession, Los Angeles police said. The 46-year-old, born Todd Anthony Shaw, was taken into custody shortly after 3 a.m. near Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue, said Los Angeles police Officer Cleon Joseph. Details about the arrest were sparse, but Joseph said the rapper briefly tried to run from police before he was apprehended. Read more...
March 20, 2013
Missing Mom Faked Disappearance to Smoke Pot
A missing Missouri woman who was found with her 4-year-old daughter staged their disappearance - just so she could smoke synthetic marijuana with her ex-husband in a suburban Kansas City motel, with the child nearby, a sheriff said. Authorities feared that 28-year-old Rachel Koechner was abducted by her former husband when she sent a text message to her boyfriend saying, "help me." Read more...
Police Sergeant Arrested for Drug Distribution
An 18-year veteran Louisiana State Police sergeant has been arrested for allegedly distributing drugs. Col. Mike Edmonson says 42-year-old Ronald Thomas was arrested without incident Monday and booked into the Ouachita Parish Jail, where he is being held on $250,000 bond. He was booked with payroll fraud, malfeasance in office, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distribution of cocaine and obstruction of justice. Bond information was not immediately available. Read more...
March 19, 2013
Goth-Rocker Peter Murphy Arrested for DUI
Peter Murphy, lead singer of 1970s British goth-rock band Bauhaus, was arrested after he allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in Glendale, injured the driver and then fled to Los Angeles, where he was blocked by an eyewitness until police arrived, officials said. The eyewitness followed Murphy, 55, from the crash at Central and Goode avenues in Glendale to the 3400 block of Barham Boulevard in Los Angeles because "he was afraid [Murphy] would kill someone with his driving," according to Glendale police. Read more...
Beth Ditto Busted For Disorderly Conduct
Beth Ditto, the lead singer of the pop punk band the Gossip, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after a drunken incident took place outside a bar in Portland, Ore. Ditto, born Mary Beth Patterson, allegedly started a disturbance outside the Bungalo Bar in Portland, Ore., after bartenders cut her off from drinks. A witness took to Reddit to write about the incident and said, "I had no idea who this girl was before I went out tonight. By 1:30 Beth was completely blackout drunk challenging people to fights." Read more...
March 18, 2013
Former NFL Star Facing Drug Charges
Former NFL running back Mack W. Herron, whose power and small stature earned him the nickname "Mini Mack" when he played for the New England Patriots during the 1970s, is accused again of drug possession after being arrested this week on the West Side, authorities said. He was arrested after police witnessed him and an accomplice buying heroin on the street. Read more...
March 15, 2013
Tyrann Mathieu: Marijuana Isn't Fun Anymore
Former LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu says the No. 1 thing he wants NFL teams to know about him is that he no longer considers smoking marijuana to be more fun than playing football. Mathieu said on NFL Network that he has moved beyond the issues that got him kicked out of school and is 100 percent focused on being an NFL player. "All the things I put before football in the past, it's not fun anymore — marijuana and everything you put before football is obsolete now," Mathieu said. Read more...
March 14, 2013
Heroin Dealer Charged With Murder
The Orange County Sheriff's Department arrested a suspected heroin dealer, and have charged him with murder. Detectives say 21-year-old Emma Wihlborg died after overdosing on drugs given to her by a man sheriff's officials say is a known heroin dealer. Louis Wood, 35, is accused of murdering Wihlborg by providing and administering heroin on Nov. 16, 2011. Investigators say Wood, a resident of Mission Viejo, was present in the motel when Wihlborg overdosed. Read more...
Prescription Drug Epidemic Hits Western States
The abuse of prescription pain pills that has hit epidemic levels in the Eastern and Southern United States has now spread to several Western states, some of which have been caught unprepared to meet the challenges. The rate of prescription drug abuse in some Western states now surpasses the rates in Appalachian states, the epicenter of the pain pill epidemic. Read more...
March 13, 2013
'Moonshiners' Actor Arrested for Drinking
It's a case of life imitating art — if you can call a reality TV series about making moonshine art. Steven Ray Tickle, 35, a star of the TV show "Moonshiners" was arrested last week for being intoxicated at a convenience store in Virginia. Tickle was holding an open container in the parking lot of Charley's Stop and Shop and the investigators smelled alcohol while approaching his car. Read more...
March 12, 2013
32 Spring Breakers Arrested at House Party
Almost three dozen reveling spring breakers learned Monday afternoon they'd be going home with an unwanted souvenir: a misdemeanor arrest. While they were partying at a house off Scenic Highway 98, Walton County sheriff's deputies arrived and carted 32 of them off to jail for underage drinking, said Maj. A.J. Smith. When deputies drove past the three-story vacation rental house at 110 Miami St. at about 5 p.m., they saw men and women who appeared underage hanging over the balconies, swimming in the pool and standing in the driveway drinking. Read more...
Elisa Baker Sentenced to 10 Years
Elisa Baker, who already is in prison in connection with the death of her stepdaughter Zahra Baker more than two years ago, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs. Baker, 44, is serving a term of between 14 years 9 months and 18 years six months after pleading guilty in September 2011 to second-degree in the death of Zahra Baker. Read more...
Carmine Giovinazzo Pleads Guilty to DUI
CSI: NY star Carmine Giovinazzo has reportedly pleaded guilty in his DUI case. Giovinazzo was booked for the driving offense in Scottsdale, Arizona in January, after being pulled over for not staying within traffic lanes. Giovinazzo worked out a deal with prosecutors that will spare him any jail time. He was required to plead guilty to the DUI, and must complete an alcohol training program. Read more...
March 11, 2013
Washington Tight End Arrested for DUI
Seattle police say University of Washington standout tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday night. Police spokesman Det. Mark Jamieson says Seferian-Jenkins was arrested in Seattle near the University District neighborhood. He was released from the precinct office. Read more...
March 08, 2013
Spike Seen in Kids Using Marijuana
A drug testing company says it's seeing a big spike in children using marijuana following the passage of Amendment 64 in Colorado. The drug testing company, Conspire, says it's now being called on a weekly basis to test students in one Colorado school district instead of monthly. It's not just more students, but it appears they're using pot more often. Read more...
Akron Player Suspended After Drug Charges
Akron's hopes for an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament took a huge hit with its loss to Buffalo last week that snapped an NCAA-leading 19-game winning streak. Now the Zips could be at serious risk of missing out on an automatic bid to the Big Dance, as the team was dealt more adversity. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that starting point guard Alex Abreu was arrested on drug charges and has been suspended indefinitely. Abreu is being held in the Summit County Jail on marijuana trafficking charges after being arrested by Akron police narcotics officers. Read more...
March 07, 2013
Woman Charged With Drug-Induced Homicide
A 22-year-old Romeoville woman serving time in the Illinois Department of Corrections on two Will County drug convictions has been charged with drug-induced homicide in the fatal heroin overdose of a 20-year-old Plainfield-area man in 2011. Will County Sheriff's Police spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer said Kristina L. Keating, of the 2000 block of Whitmore Drive, provided Emelio R. Medina with heroin on Oct. 28, 2011, from a source in Chicago. Medina's mother and sister found him unresponsive in his bedroom around 1 p.m. the next day, Hoffmeyer said. Read more...
Nick Fairley's DUI Case Still Unresolved
If Detroit Lions defensive lineman Nick Fairley loses his bid for a pretrial diversion program in a DUI case in his hometown, he will have to appear in person later this month, a judge ruled. Mobile County Circuit Judge Sarah Stewart did not decide on whether Fairley's lawyer had struck an agreement with prosecutors that would result in the dismissal of DUI and reckless driving charges as long as he completed the program. Read more...
March 06, 2013
Heroin Dealers Charged With Homicide
Will County authorities are charging two alleged dope dealers with drug-induced homicide stemming from separate fatal heroin overdoses in the fall. Authorities say Emerson D. Harris, 24, and Maximilian Kalemba, 21, of southwest suburban Homer Glen, sold drugs to different people that ultimately led to their deaths. Police were called to a Wendy's on Sept. 19, where 28-year-old Chad D. Conley was found lying in the parking lot. Conley, of Bolingbrook, was taken to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, Lt. Mike Rompa said. Read more...
Red Sox Picture Drake Britton Gets DUI
Jail records says Boston Red Sox left-hander Drake Britton was arrested in Fort Myers, Fla., for driving under the influence. The 23-year-old was also charged with reckless driving and DUI with property damage. His arrest report says Britton was speeding when a deputy tried to stop him for "numerous traffic violations." The report says Britton drove his car over a curb and knocked down a fence. He then drove over it before making a complete stop. Read more...
Edward Furlong Gets Six-Month Jail Sentence
Edward Furlong, who starred in "Terminator 2" and "American History X" and more recently a series of mug shots, has been sentenced to six months in prison for violating probation stemming from a 2010 conviction for violating a restraining order filed by his then-wife, Rachael Kneeland. He was arrested in January for misdemeanor battery for allegedly shoving his girlfriend. Furlong's attorney said that he had arranged a deal with prosecutors in which Furlong would go to rehab instead of a prison — "a very unusual disposition in a case that alleged violence" — but Furlong refused. Read more...
March 05, 2013
N.M. Votes Alcohol Ban on Interlock Users
How about this for a DWI crackdown? You get convicted of drunk driving, you get your ignition interlock, you get an interlock license - you can't buy any booze. The state House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Monday afternoon that would outlaw liquor sales to people with interlock licenses. The bill's sponsor got the idea from something he saw with his own two eyeballs at a Santa Fe convenience store. Read more...
Attorney: Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Need Rehab
Lindsay Lohan's attorney said his client doesn't need drug rehabilitation. At court hearing Friday, Mark Heller told a judge that Lohan is in therapy. "This is not what she needs — rehab," Heller said. "Lindsay doesn't have a problem with alcohol and drugs. Lindsay's issues are different." Lohan faces trial March 18 for allegedly lying to Santa Monica police when she said she was not driving her Porsche during an accident. Read more...
Fighter Ricco Rodriguez Gets DUI
Ex-UFC champ Ricco Rodriguez -- who also appeared on the first season of "Celebrity Rehab" -- has been arrested on suspicion of DUI. According to law enforcement, Rodriguez was busted in L.A. yesterday morning at 1:25 AM. He was subsequently booked for misdemeanor DUI. Details surrounding the arrest are unclear. His BAC was recorded at 0.10. Read more...
March 04, 2013
Cops Intercept Pot Sent to Tanning Salon
A Massachusetts tanning salon owner and her brother face drug charges after a package containing an estimated $60,000-worth of marijuana was intercepted by police. Authorities said the package containing 12 pounds of pot had been shipped from California to the Tanorama Suntanning Center in Burlington. Julia Symonds, 22, who owns the salon, was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a class D drug and conspiracy to violate the drug laws. Her brother, John Symonds, 25, was charged with conspiracy to violate the drug laws. Read more...
March 02, 2013
Fed-Ex Suied Over Weed Delivery
A Massachusetts woman is suing FedEx, saying the company erroneously sent her a package containing seven pounds of marijuana, then gave her address to the intended recipients who later showed up at her door. Maryangela Tobin of Plymouth says in the suit filed Feb. 12 the company violated state privacy laws by disclosing her address and put her and her children in danger. She says as soon as she opened the package, which she thought was a birthday present for her daughter, she called police. Soon after, a stranger knocked and repeatedly asked if she had his package. She slammed and bolted her door. Read more...
Judge: Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer 'Incompetent'
Lindsay Lohan may want to make nice with her old lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley. All motions made by Lohan's new New York City lawyer, Mark Heller, to delay or do away with altogether the actress' scheduled March 18 trial were denied today by a Southern California Judge, who scolded the attorney for not being in compliance with California court procedures. Which means Lohan's trial on charges of reckless driving and lying to police about a car crash she was in last year, is on for March 18. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Dabney said there is no good reason to delay the case.
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March 01, 2013
Titans' Brandon Barden Arrested for DUI
Authorities say a Tennessee Titans tight end has been arrested in a roll-over drunken driving crash in eastern Georgia. A Lincoln County Sheriff's report says 23-year-old Brandon Barden lost control of a truck carrying two other passengers on Feb. 23 and crashed into a ditch in Lincolnton - about 35 miles northwest of Augusta. The report says the truck flipped and landed on its side. Read more...
February 28, 2013
6 Charged After Child Drinks Drano From Sippy Cup
A young child remains in critical condition after drinking Drano from a children's cup at a Florida meth lab, authorities said. A total of six people have been charged in connection with the Feb. 20 incident, including the child's 36-year-old father, Jonathan Wayne Glass, of Milton. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office said the individuals were involved in the production of methamphetamines at an apartment in Milton. Deputies said the child was in the bathroom of the residence where Drano — a common component in the production of meth — was being stored in a child's sippy cup. Read more...
Bears' Webb Won't Face Drug Charges
Though J'Marcus Webb reportedly won't face drug charges, he created questions about himself for a new Bears coaching staff when he was arrested in downstate Pulaski County and initially charged with marijuana possession. Webb, 24, was arrested Sunday night after police pulled him over for speeding on I-57. After being pulled over, police found less that 2.5 grams of marijuana. Read more...
February 27, 2013
'Teen Mom 2' Star in Rehab for Heroin
"Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans is back in rehab, according to RadarOnline. The gossip website reported Evans is seeking treatment for an addiction to heroin. "Everyone has been worried about Jenelle doing heroin, even though she was denying that for a long time," the source said. Evans has had a tumultuous few months, the source added, noting she recently separated from her husband, Courtland Rogers. The MTV star also reportedly recently got pregnant again but suffered a miscarriage. Read more...
February 26, 2013
Drunk Woman Crashes Into Historic Cemetery
A historic church's cemetery was plowed into by a woman. "We've seen our share of unusual happnings around here before," said Doak Wolfe with Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Wolfe can add another tally to his number of strange happenings. Police say over the weekend 27-year-old Jacklyn Gary was intoxicated and ran her car into the church's cemetery. But Wolfe says this incident was just happenstance. Read more...
Teen Who Flipped Off Judge Back in Court
Penelope Soto, the woman who flipped off a Miami-Dade County judge in Florida, made another appearance in court. Soto, 18, attended a status hearing where it was revealed she's passed eight drug tests and has attended all counseling sessions following her arrest earlier this month. "Eight out of eight, that's perfect, congratulations!" Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeffrey Rosinek told Soto. She smiled as the judge applauded her efforts and wished her continued success in the drug program. See video...
February 25, 2013
Man Arrested 3 Times Within 9 Days
A Concord man was arrested in Springville making this his third arrest within a little over a week. A deputy on patrol in Springville around 11 a.m. observed a vehicle that was stopped in the middle of the street where the driver seemed to be passed out. Ryan Drumsta, 21, conducted field sobriety tests and was determined to be intoxicated after the deputy woke him up from behind the wheel. Read more...
Bartender Fired for Snitching on Drunk
An Ohio bartender says she got fired after alerting police to a drunken patron who was leaving the bar in his vehicle. Twyla DeVito, who worked at the American Legion in Shelby, told 10TV that Mike Ramey, who is a regular at the bar, was "hammered" when she arrived for work last week. When Ramey left, she called police and warned them about a drunk person behind the wheel. Shelby Police Chief Charlie Roub said officers stopped Ramey and he blew a 0.167 on a breathalyzer test, over twice the legal limit. Read more...
49ers Lineman Al Netter Arrested for DUI
San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Al Netter was arrested for DUI. Netter spent the 2012 season on the 49ers practice squad. Netter was cited for having a blood-alcohol content above the legal limit of .08. "The 49ers are aware of the recent matter involving Al Netter," the team said in a statement. "We take these issues very seriously, but will reserve comment at this time as this is an ongoing legal matter. The organization will continue to gather the facts and monitor the developments closely." Read more...
Mathieu Says Pot Use Cost Him 'Millions'
Tyrann Mathieu doesn't expect anybody to trust him immediately. But the former Louisiana State defensive back wants a chance to prove himself, and he's getting it at the scouting combine -- he says he's already interviewed with several teams. Mathieu, formerly the "Honey Badger," hopes to drop his old nickname and forge a new reputation after earning consensus All-American honors as a sophomore in 2011 before being dismissed from LSU's football program for multiple failed drug tests due to marijuana use. He joined a drug rehab program last summer, but he and three other former LSU players were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession on Oct. 25. Mathieu says he hasn't used marijuana since that ordeal. Read more...
February 22, 2013
Loucheiz Purifoy's Drug Charge Dismissed
The state attorney's office in Gainesville has dismissed the marijuana possession case against Florida cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy because of a lack of evidence. Purifoy was arrested Feb. 3 after police saw a bag of marijuana in a car in which Purifoy was riding. Spencer Mann, the chief investigator for the state attorney's office, said prosecutors were unable to determine to whom the bag of marijuana belonged and dropped the case. Read more...
Steven Tyler: 'I Snorted Half of Peru'
Steven Tyler has spent more money on drugs than most people will make in their lifetimes. The Aerosmith frontman, 65, recently opened up about his past cocaine use in an interview with Australia's "60 Minutes" -- and it's nothing short of shocking. Asked whether it was true that -- as written in his 2011 memoir, "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" -- he spent some $20 million on blow in the 1970s and '80s, the rocker said no. But the real number wasn't that far off. Read more...
Latin American Idol Winner Busted
Martha Heredia might have to face another (harsher) judge. The former Latin American Idol winner from the Dominican Republic was arrested and charged for drug smuggling after police found heroin hidden in the heels of her platform shoes when she was boarding a plane to New York. Frank Duran, the National Drug Control Agency's director for the city of Santiago, said police found 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms) of the drug in the heels of three pairs of shoes packed in her suitcase. Read more...
February 21, 2013
Jack Swagger Arrested For DUI, Drug Possession
Jack Swagger was arrested following last night's SmackDown taping in Biloxi, Mississippi. According to the report, Swagger was leaving the arena when he was pulled over for speeding. The officer who pulled him over said that Swagger was driving under the influence, and was found to have marijuana in his car. Swagger was booked, and later released. He is being charged with DUI, marijuana possession, and speeding. Read more...
February 20, 2013
Man Burned in Meth Lab Mishap
Oconee County sheriff's investigators are waiting until a suspected methamphetamine maker exits a hospital before pursuing charges against him. Authorities suspect the Bogart man severely burned while making cooking meth, said Chief Deputy Lee Weems. The man received his burns Feb. 14 following an explosion in a suspected meth lab in a home on East Haven Trail off Malcom Bridge Road. The man was airlifted to a hospital, according to the sheriff's report. Read more...
Two West Virginia Safeties Arrested
Chances are West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen did not enjoy his three-day holiday weekend. According to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, not one but two of his players were arrested in separate incidents over the weekend. Safety Karl Joseph, who was named to CBSSports.com Freshman All-America Team after leading West Virginia in tackles with 95 last season, was arrested early Sunday morning and faces charges of driving under the influence and possession of a fake ID. Read more...
Former Gator Ronnie Wilson Arrested
A former University of Florida football player with a history of trouble has had another run-in with the law. Ronnie Wilson, 25, was arrested in North Lauderdale and charged with displaying a firearm during the commission of a felony and multiple drug charges, including oxycodone trafficking and cocaine and marijuana possession. Wilson, 25, appeared in court and was ordered held without bond. Read more...
February 19, 2013
Woman With 5 DUI Convictions Arrested
A Napa woman was jailed after the California Highway Patrol allegedly caught her driving under the influence of alcohol for the sixth time. Ixchel Susan Rollins, 45, was driving a BMW 540 on U.S. Highway 101 in Petaluma on Friday when she was pulled over at about 2:15 p.m., according to the CHP. Rollins, who has five prior DUI convictions over the last 10 years, allegedly failed field sobriety tests and was arrested for felony DUI, the CHP said. Read more...
February 18, 2013
Former Georgia LB Ogletree Arrested for DUI
Georgia linebacker Alec Ogletree, a projected first round pick in the coming NFL draft, was recently arrested for a DUI. Ogletree's agent, Pat Dye Jr., said that his client was pulled over by police for speeding and committing a lane violation. "After the officers smelled alcohol, they conducted tests and also cited him for DUI," Dye said. "Although Alec regrets this incident terribly, he is thankful that there was no accident and that no one was hurt." Read more...
Mindy McCready Dead at 37
Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, has died. She was 37. Waren Olmstead, the coroner in Cleburne County, Ark., said in a statement McCready died Sunday apparently of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. McCready entered court-ordered rehab earlier this month after her father told a judge she was no longer taking care of herself or her children and was abusing drugs and alcohol. Read more...
February 16, 2013
Police Officers Allowed to Work 'Half-Drunk'
Do you think your police department has a zero-tolerance policy for alcohol? Think again. Many suburban Chicago departments actually have clauses in their union contracts which prevent any kind of discipline for officers with substantial amounts of alcohol in their systems -- even those nearing the state definition of legally drunk, an investigation by the Better Government Association and NBC Chicago reveals. Read more...
February 15, 2013
Phillip Phillips' Mother Charged With DUI
The mother of "American Idol" winner and Georgia native Phillip Phillips was arrested on a DUI charge on Thursday afternoon, Dougherty County Jail officials confirm. Investigators in Albany say an undercover unit observed Cheryl Phillips swerving her van across lanes of traffic. Authorities say she was unable to perform a field sobriety test. Cheryl Phillips is charged with failure to maintain lane and DUI less safe. Read more...
Amy Locane-Bovenizer Gets 3 Years
A former "Melrose Place" actress who was driving drunk when her SUV plowed into a car and killed a New Jersey woman has been sentenced to three years in prison. The victim's husband yelled, "What a travesty!" at the judge after the sentencing, and he and his son stormed out of the courtroom. Amy Locane-Bovenizer faced up to 10 years in prison after a jury in November convicted her of vehicular homicide in the 2010 death of 60-year-old Helene Seeman in Montgomery Township. Read more...
February 14, 2013
Court Orders Drugged Bus Driver Reinstated
A New York bus driver who was fired after failing a random drug test should be reinstated, the state's highest court ruled. The Court of Appeals' unanimous ruling supports the conclusion of an arbitrator who determined the firing of Cynthia DiDomenicantonio in November 2009 was too severe a punishment for the 10-year district employee. Read more...
Arkansas Defensive End Arrested for DWI
Authorities say Arkansas junior defensive end Austin Flynn was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. Flynn, who transferred to the Razorbacks before last season from Los Angeles (Calif.) Harbor College, was stopped by Fayetteville police, who said he was speeding and then crossed the center line. According to a preliminary police report, Flynn's blood-alcohol level was 0.14%, nearly twice the legal limit. Read more...
David Hasselhoff's Daughter Charged With DUI
Hayley Hasselhoff, the 20-year-old daughter of David Hasselhoff, has been officially charged with DUI and with speeding by the Los Angeles City Attorney. However, because Haley, or an attorney appearing on her behalf, did not show for her arraignment on Jan. 16, a bench warrant was issued and her bail was set at $26,000.On Feb. 11, a private attorney appeared on her behalf, and her $26,000 bench warrant was subsequently withdrawn and a court date for entering a plea was set for Feb. 25. Read more...
February 13, 2013
Officers Accused of Protecting Drug Deals
Officials say 10 current and former metro Atlanta law enforcement officers are accused of accepting thousands of dollars to provide protection during drug deals. U.S. Attorney Sally Yates said the arrests Tuesday came from a undercover federal investigation of an Atlanta-area street gang in August 2011. Agents learned from someone associated with the gang that officers were accepting cash payments to provide drug deal protection. Authorities say the payments were generally several thousand dollars per transaction, and some participated in several transactions. Read more...
Woman Shows Up Drunk to Bail Out Drunk Husband
Police in Hamden, Conn., charged a man and his wife with drunk driving just hours apart from each other. According to police, April Cassidy Velez, 32, drove to Hamden Police Headquarters on Saturday to bail out her husband after his DUI arrest earlier that day. She appeared intoxicated and was arrested, police said. Officers found April Velez's pickup truck parked in a snow bank in an area of the parking lot marked "Police Vehicles Only." They found empty wine bottle and empty beer cans in the truck, as well as a full six-pack of beer resting in the snow in the bed of the pickup, police said. Read more...
February 12, 2013
'Buckwild' Cast Member Busted for Drugs
A cast member of the MTV reality show "Buckwild" is facing a drug charge in West Virginia. Twenty-four-year-old Salwa Amin was arraigned in Nicholas County Magistrate Court on felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. She's being held at the Central Regional Jail on $200,000 bond. State police say a multi-agency task force arrested Amin and two others late Sunday at a home in Summersville after receiving a tip from an informant. Officers say they found oxycodone pills and heroin. Read more...
Giants' David Diehl Pleads Guilty to DWI
New York Giants tackle David Diehl pleaded guilty to aggravated DWI and impaired driving in a Queens District court stemming from his arrest last summer for driving his BMW into two parked cars in Queens. Diehl will not be allowed to drive or apply for a driver's license in New Jersey, where he lives, for over a six-month period and will have to wear a SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor) bracelet for 90 days. Prosecutors said Diehl's blood alcohol content was at .182, well above the legal limit of .08. Diehl has to complete two drunken driving programs and pay $1,200 in restitution fees to the owners of the cars Read more...
February 11, 2013
Williams Says Bulls Teammates Were Buzzed
Former Chicago Bulls guard and current ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams told the New York Times that his Chicago Bulls teammates smoked marijuana before games during his lone NBA season in 2002-2003. "There were guys smoking weed before games. Guys asking in the middle of the game, 'Do you smell popcorn?' " Read more...
Mark Grace Begins Serving Sentence for DUI
Former Arizona Diamondbacks broadcaster and player Mark Grace began serving time for his second DUI charge this weekend. Grace reported to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City early Sunday morning, which is where he will be residing for the next four months. Grace, who will also have to serve two years on probation, will be allowed to leave Tent City for 12 hours a day as part of his work release. Read more...
February 09, 2013
Tracy Mourning Arrested, Charged With DUI
Tracy Mourning, the wife of former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, was arrested and charged with DUI, police said. She was pulled over near Old Cutler Road and San Servano Avenue after speeding on two occasions and then failing to fully stop at a red light, according to the arrest report. She asked the officer why she was stopped. When told, she winked but did not deny driving too fast or running the red light. Tracy Mourning, 42, failed a roadside sobriety test after the officer smelled alcohol on her breath, the report stated. Read more...
David Hasselhoff's Daughter Charged With DUI
David Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley has been charged for allegedly drink driving. The 20-year-old actress could face up to six months in jail if convicted of the DUI. Hayley was formally charged on January 3 with a DUI and for speeding. Read more...
February 08, 2013
Florida Cornerback Arrested for Pot
Florida cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy was arrested and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, making him the seventh member of the Gators arrested for marijuana over the past 25 months. According to a Gainesville Police Department report, Purifoy was a passenger in a car that was stopped for a violation of the right of way. The officer's report noted that one passenger threw a marijuana cigarette out of the window and that he observed marijuana residue in the car. The officer also saw a bag containing 2.5 grams of marijuana by the car's emergency brake. Read more...
Mindy McCready Committed by Father
Just three weeks after Mindy McCready lost her boyfriend, songwriter David Wilson, the embattled country singer has suffered another setback. In an emergency hearing, a judge ordered McCready to be committed to a treatment facility to cope with mental health and alcohol issues. During the hearing, McCready, 37, admitted to drinking too much alcohol, blaming her overindulgence on her grief at Wilson's death. McCready's two children – Zander, 6, and Zayne, 9 months – have been removed from her home and are currently in foster care. Read more...
February 07, 2013
Winthrop Assistant Dean Charged With DUI
A Winthrop University academic administrator was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and violating the ABC law. Margaret Williamson, 58, of Rock Hill is Winthrop's assistant dean of University College. She was arrested by the Highway Patrol during a public safety checkpoint on Red River Road. Williamson's blood alcohol content was between .10 and .16, according to booking records from the York County Moss Justice Detention Center. Read more...
Rockies Star Todd Helton Arrested on DUI
Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Helton has spent his entire major league career with the Rockies after being drafted in the first round of the 1995 draft. Helton released a statement that said, "Last evening I exercised poor judgment and was charged with drinking and driving after driving to a gas station near my house. I am very sorry and embarrassed by my actions." Read more...
February 06, 2013
Montana Basketball Player Charged With DUI
A sophomore on the University of Montana men's basketball team has been charged with driving under the influence. UM athletic director Kent Haslam says Kevin Henderson was stopped by campus police and cited for driving with a blood-alcohol level of greater than 0.02 percent, which is the legal limit for drivers under the age of 21. Henderson is 20. Read more...
February 05, 2013
Idaho Man Sentenced for 5th DUI
A N. Idaho man will spend at least the next two years in prison for his fifth DUI. A judge sentenced David Everett Meeks Jr. of Coeur d'Alene to 10 years in state prison for felony driving under the influence. The first two years of the sentence are fixed, and the remaining eight years are indeterminate with credit for time served. Meeks pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in the area of Pleasant View Road near the Spokane River on Sept. 18, 2012. A witness called 911 reporting Meeks was weaving all over the road, and had almost struck another vehicle. Read more...
Teacher Accused of Heroin Possession
Claudia Reaney, a third-grade teacher at a Davis County school in Utah, is facing an enhanced drug possession charge for allegedly having heroin residue in her classroom and in her car near the elementary school where she worked. Following a tip, Syracuse Police questioned Reaney, 49, on Jan. 31 at Buffalo Point Elementary, where she taught. Upon a search of her car and classroom, police reportedly found evidence of heroin use. Read more...
February 04, 2013
$10M Worth of Cocaine Found in Man's Home
A search of a South Side home revealed about $10 million worth of cocaine and more than $500,000 cash, leading to the arrest of the 21-year-old man who lived there. Two others also face felony charges in the case. Jose Pelayo-Aguilar was charged with manufacturing or delivering and possessing more than 900 grams of cocaine. During a court appearance, Judge Israel Desierto ordered him held on a $75,000 cash bond. Read more...
Woman Leaves Meth Behind at Checkout
A shopper at a Wal-Mart in Columbus left behind something illegal -- a small bag of methamphetamine. The store manager notified police about finding 1.4 grams of the drug on the floor of the store near a checkout line about 3 a.m. Saturday. The manager told police the drug may have fallen out of a woman's pocket when she checked out with merchandise. Police will use the store's surveillance cameras to try to locate her. Read more...
February 02, 2013
Ten Pounds of Weed Sent to Seattle Kmart
A Kmart department store in Seattle received a 10-pound bag of marijuana Monday afternoon from an unknown source. Authorities received a call from the discount store reporting they had received a package containing garbage bags filled with the pot and foam peanuts. The package also contained Korean newspaper soaked with cleaning-fluid, the paper reports. Read more...
February 01, 2013
9-1-1 Pocket Dial Prompts Drug Bust
Authorities say a Florida tow truck driver landed in jail after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in on a conversation about the sale of drugs. Deputies say 19-year-old Matthew Dollarhide was surprised when a Volusia County Sheriff's deputy pulled him over late Tuesday and asked him about his conversation with two passengers. Read more...
Mark Grace Gets Four Months for 2nd DUI
Former major leaguer and Arizona Diamondbacks broadcaster Mark Grace, who appeared in court Thursday, pleaded guilty to endangerment and DUI, avoiding what could have been a lengthy prison sentence. Instead, a judge imposed a four-month sentence that includes work-release jail time as well as three years of supervised probation. Additionally, an Interlock device must be installed in his vehicle for six months and he will need permission to travel out of state. Read more...
Randy Travis Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving
Randy Travis pleaded guilty to drunk driving and as a result will be avoiding jail time in a case that began last summer when he crashed his car and was found naked at the scene. The country singer was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence, must pay a $2,000 fine and spend two years on probation. His probation order includes completing 100 hours of community service, spending a minimum of 30 days in an alcohol treatment facility and having an ignition interlock device present on any car he drives. Prosecutors said he was belligerent at the scene and had a blood alcohol level of 0.21. The investigation began when a 911 caller reported a naked man was lying on the road. Read more...
January 31, 2013
Ditka's Son Pleads Guilty to DUI
The son of former Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka received 24 months of probation after pleading guilty to aggravated DUI and possession of a controlled substance in a Lake County courtroom. It was Mark Ditka's fourth arrest for DUI, but his first conviction, said Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Ben Dillon. Ditka, of Deerfield, could have received up to three years in prison if he had gone to trial and been found guilty, Dillon said. Read more...
Carmine Giovinazzo Arrested for DUI
Carmine Giovinazzo may play a cop on TV, but he's run afoul of the law in real life. The CSI: NY star was collared for a DUI in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Jan. 21. Per the police report obtained by E! News, the 39-year-old Giovinazzo was behind the wheel of a white Jeep Wrangler with two other passengers when police responded to a call about an impaired driver. After observing him drifting across three lanes, a cruiser pulled him over. He was given a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer, blowing a 0.119 percent. Read more...
January 30, 2013
Students Charged After Cheerleader's Fall
Eight Penn State University students allegedly supplied alcohol at the party where a 19-year-old cheerleader fell out a fifth-floor apartment window. State College Police Department said it filed charges against eight students between the ages of 19 and 21 with furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors at the Oct. 13 party where Paige Raque of Louisville, Ky., was seriously injured. According to court documents, each student was charged with three counts of selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor and three counts of serving alcohol to a visibly intoxicated person. The legal drinking age in Pennsylvania is 21. Read more...
Thomas Gibson Gets 3 Years' Probation for DUI
Actor Thomas Gibson, known for his roles in "Chicago Hope," "Dharma and Greg" and "Criminal Minds" pleaded no contest to one count of alcohol-related reckless driving following an arrest in downtown Los Angeles. Gibson was immediately sentenced to three years' probation, fined $300 plus unspecified assessments and ordered to attend an alcohol education program. Gibson, 50, was arrested earlier this month at 1:05 a.m. at 11th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles police said. He was booked about half an hour later and released on $15,000 bail. Read more...
January 29, 2013
Police: Jay Ratliff's BAC Was 0.16
Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Jay Ratliff's blood alcohol content was 0.16 percent -- twice the legal limit -- after his arrest for driving while intoxicated last week, blood test results revealed, according to Grapevine, Texas, police. Ratliff was arrested in the early morning hours of Jan. 22 after his 2011 Ford pickup truck sideswiped an 18-wheeler and slammed into a median protector on State Highway 114. There were no injuries as a result of the crash, which caused major damage to the driver's side of Ratliff's truck. Read more...
January 28, 2013
Sheriff Detective Arrested For Possession
A Broward Sheriff's detective lands a big drug bust, but this time he is the one that ends up in the slammer. Detective John Brindle, 45, was arrested for possession of oxycodone pills without a prescription. Broward detectives said that the investigation began after they received a tip about Brindle, who was allegedly obtaining the pills at an Oakland Park home. Read more...
Sunny Cross of 'Catfish' Arrested for DWI
A Fayetteville woman faces charges after being arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Sunny Cross, 22, failed a field sobriety test and had red, watery eyes and smelled of alochol, the report said. She registered .08 blood-alcohol content. Cross appeared on the MTV show "Catfish" in November 2012 during which it was revealed she had an online relationship with a person who turned out to be a woman instead of a man as she had believed. Read more...
January 25, 2013
Teacher Arrested at Suspected Drug House
A Jacksonville school teacher who arrived at a drug suspect's house in Middleburg with a backpack with marijuana, illegal pills, drug paraphernalia and a handgun was arrested, authorities said. James Van Richburg, 38, of Logging Lane in Jacksonville is charged with resisting arrest without violence, possession of a prescription drug without a prescription while armed with a handgun and possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to his Clay County Sheriff's Office arrest report. Read more...
Doctor Charged in Prescription Drug Ring
A former Fogelsville psychiatrist has been charged in connection with a prescription drug ring that involved several people who used fraudulent prescriptions in multiple Pennsylvania counties to get painkillers and other drugs, authorities said. David W. Daley, who practiced at 7729 Main St., in the Fogelsville section of Upper Macungie Township, was charged with 33 counts of prescribing medication outside of accepted treatment principles and one count of helping patients fraudulently obtain prescription drugs, all felonies, according to the state Attorney General's office, which filed the charges along with Pennsylvania State Police. Read more...
Former Redskin Fred Smoot Charged With DUI
Former Washington Redskins defensive back Fred Smoot was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or a drug in the District in early January, according to online court records and his attorney. Online court records say Smoot was charged on Jan. 10 and pleaded not guilty at a hearing a week later. Smoot, of Roswell, Ga. was observed by police driving a white Audi A7 that did not have a license plate. Read more...
January 24, 2013
Missing Guardsman Investigated for Drugs
The Coast Guard says a Hawaii-based Coast Guardsman who disappeared more than three months ago was being investigated for illegal drug use at the time. Coast Guard spokesman Chief Warrant Officer Gene Maestas said that Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews was being investigated for using marijuana. The offense could have resulted in the 15-year veteran being discharged from the Coast Guard. Read more...
January 23, 2013
Former Rays Player Arrested on Warrant
Police say former Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes has been arrested on a warrant related to previous drug charges. Tampa police say the 28-year-old Dukes was arrested Monday night. He's also been charged with an additional count of driving with a suspended license. Records show Dukes had failed to appear in court for charges related to a February 2012 arrest. Read more...
Appeals Court Backs DEA on Pot
Because there is not yet any scientific proof of marijuana's medical value, weed will continue to be treated as a dangerous drug, a federal appeals court has ruled. Although marijuana may have some medical benefits, the court ruled, the Drug Enforcement Agency can continue to enforce federal laws controlling the drug. The decision is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court by the advocacy group that brought the lawsuit. Read more...
Jay Ratliff Charged With DWI
Dallas Cowboys starting nose tackle Jay Ratliff was arrested and charged with DWI in the early-morning hours after he crashed his 2011 Ford pickup truck into a 18-wheeler, according to Grapevine, Texas, police senior officer Sam Shemwell. Ratliff and the driver of the tractor trailer were not injured, according to Shemwell. Police, according to Shemwell, upon an investigation of the crash, arrested Ratliff on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Read more...
January 22, 2013
Top Recruit Busted for Underage Drinking
Taquan Mizzell, considered the top running back in the country by some, was arrested for allegedly drinking underageon the same weekend the prospect took his official visit to Virginia. Mizzell was arrested in Charlottesville. The minor will face misdemeanor charges for underage drinking, according to Talheim. The arrest reportedly occurred after Mizzell kicked a passing car. Read more...
Scott Evans Pleads Guilty to Possession
Chris Evans' brother, Scott Evans, has pulled a Lindsay Lohan and gotten off the hook with his court case after being charged with attempted possession of a controlled substance when he tried to buy cocaine from an undercover cop. Captain America's former soap star brother bit the bullet by pleading guilty and was sentenced to attending 60 Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Read more...
January 19, 2013
Man Pleads Guilty to 13th DUI
A Billings man who was sentenced in November for his 12th DUI conviction pleaded guilty to his 13th on Friday. Trial had been set for Jan. 22 for William Dean Grussing, 55, but on Friday in District Judge Ingrid Gustafson's court, he changed an earlier plea of not guilty to guilty to a charge of driving drunk last June. Sentencing was set for Feb. 12 before Judge Susan Watters. Read more...
January 18, 2013
Priest Among 5 Charged in Meth Ring
A federal grand jury in Connecticut has indicted a former Roman Catholic priest and four other people in an alleged drug operation involving shipments of methamphetamine from California. Prosecutors say 61-year-old Kevin Wallin of Waterbury, former pastor at St. Augustine's parish in Bridgeport, received shipments of methamphetamine from California and sold drugs to an undercover officer over the past four months. Read more...
January 17, 2013
A.J. Barker Charged With Marijuana Possession
Former Minnesota Golden Gophers wide receiver A.J. Barker was arrested Sunday night in Houston, Texas, on suspicion of marijuana possession, according to court records obtained by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Barker reportedly posted $500 bail after being charged. Barker was supposed to start classes at the University of Houston Monday after transferring out of Minnesota at the end of fall. The junior from St. Paul's De La Salle High School was leading Minnesota in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, when he suffered a sprained ankle in the Gophers' Oct. 27 win over Purdue. Read more...
January 16, 2013
Mark Grace Blames Himself, DUI for Firing
Former Arizona Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace says he blames himself, not the team, for firing him last season. The former first baseman with the Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs was fired after he was arrested last August in Scottsdale — his second drunken driving arrest in 15 months. Grace has pleaded not guilty in October to four felony counts of aggravated DUI. His trial is scheduled for March 19. Read more...
January 15, 2013
Former Pain Clinic Owner Arrested
A former Kentucky pain clinic owner has been arrested for an alleged conspiracy to peddle painkilling medication. Federal and state authorities said 44-year-old Ernest William Singleton was arrested Monday and charged with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and conspiracy to launder funds from October 2010 until this month. Read more...
Belcher Legally Drunk When He Killed Himself
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol that was more than twice the legal limit when he shot his girlfriend nine times and committed suicide Dec. 1 at Arrowhead Stadium. Autopsy results released by the Jackson County (Mo.) medical examiner show that Belcher's blood-alcohol level was .17 when he died. His girlfriend, Kassandra Perkins, had almost no alcohol in her system. Neither tested positive for illegal drugs. Read more...
January 14, 2013
Woman Pleads Guilty to Fatal DUI
The woman accused of hitting and killing an Atlanta Police officer while driving under the influence last year has pleaded guilty. Chasity Jones appeared in court Friday morning. The Stone Mountain woman faced 13 charges in the January 2012 death of Officer Gail Thomas, including vehicular homicide, DUI and violating Georgia's Move Over Law. Thomas was helping another officer investigate an accident on the Downtown Connector near the Brookwood Interchange when she was hit. She died at the scene. Read more...
Meth Baby's Mom Arrested
A Columbus woman set to be sentenced for dealing drugs has been arrested again after authorities say she gave birth to a baby who tested positive for methamphetamine. Sentencing for 32-year-old Kristal Thomas was postponed so she could give birth last week. Five days after giving birth, Thomas was jailed after doctors reported meth in the baby's system. Read more...
Casey Pachall Returns to TCU After DWI
TCU's troubled former quarterback Casey Pachall is back with the team. He left last semester after a drunk driving arrest. Football-wise, it means more competition at the Horned Frogs quarterback spot. For Pachall, it's a shot at redemption after letting down his family and his team. Read more...
January 11, 2013
Couple Charged in Infant's Heroin Death
The parents of a New Jersey infant who died of heroin intoxication in 2008 have pleaded guilty to manslaughter after admitting they rubbed heroin on the baby's gums because he was teething. Just how the 11-month-old boy known as "Baby JM" ingested the heroin had remained a mystery until investigators in Ocean County got new information in the Seaside Heights case in October. Read more...
DUI Charges Filed Against Randy Travis
DUI charges have been filed against country music star Randy Travis in connection with his arrest in Grayson County last summer. Travis was taken into custody August 7 after authorities say he was involved in a traffic accident. Toxicology reports show Travis had a blood-alcohol content of more than 0.15. Read more...
January 10, 2013
Blood Tests Protected by Fourth Amendment?
Justices indicated that the dangers of drunken driving don't trump the Fourth Amendment, peppering lawyers for the state of Missouri with objections to their request that the Supreme Court allow law enforcement to order blood tests for DUI without suspects' consent. The case, Missouri v. McNeely, is seen as a landmark that could clear up almost 50 years of uncertainty over the constitutionality of blood tests that are conducted without a warrant. Legal scholars say it could rewrite drunken-driving laws in all 50 states. Read more...
January 09, 2013
High Court Takes Up Forced BAC Tests
The US Supreme Court takes up a case on Wednesday that examines whether police must obtain a warrant from a neutral judge before forcibly extracting blood from a suspected drunk driver. At issue is when police have the authority to force a motorist to submit to a blood test after the motorist refuses a breathalyzer test. Under the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. That means before police invade a person's privacy, they must demonstrate to a neutral judge that there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. If the judge is convinced, a search warrant is issued. Read more...
January 07, 2013
Drunk Pilot Arrested at Airport
Airport police arrested an American Eagle pilot after he failed a blood-alcohol breath test as he prepared to fly from Minneapolis-St. Paul to New York City, authorities said. The pilot was conducting preflight checks about 6:30 a.m. when airport police officers acting on a tip boarded the aircraft, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said. Officers made him take a Breathalyzer test and arrested him on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol. Read more...
Josh Brolin Arrested For Public Intoxication
Josh Brolin was arrested for public intoxication just before midnight on Jan. 1 in Santa Monica, Calif., TMZ reports. According to law enforcement sources, Brolin was booked into jail at 3:02 a.m. and then released at 7:14 a.m. on Jan. 2. The 44-year-old actor, who is married to Diane Lane, paid the $250 bail and will not have to go to court since he was not given a citation for the arrest. Read more...
Thomas Gibson Busted for DUI
This probably isn't the way Thomas Gibson wanted to ring in the New Year. The 50-year-old "Criminal Minds" star was busted early Sunday morning on suspicion of DUI. Gibson was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department Central Traffic Division and booked. Gibson, also known for his starring role in "Dharma & Greg," was in downtown Los Angeles when he drove through a barricade set to keep cars off the course of an overnight half-marathon. Read more...
January 04, 2013
Man Charged in Woman's Heroin Overdose
A 38-year-old Southfield man is scheduled to be in court on a charge he supplied and helped administer a fatal heroin injection to a Birmingham woman who subsequently died from a drug overdose. Richard Patrick Babbie is charged with supplying drugs that caused the June 26 death of Tawnya Jarvis, 37, who overdosed in her apartment in the 2100 block of East Maple in Birmingham. She was taken to Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital by Babbie and another man, who is not charged in the incident, and died in the emergency room. Read more...
Proposed Home Breathalyzers for DWI
Anti-DWI advocates are pushing for a proposal that would require drunk drivers, who claim they don't own a car, to take breathalyzer tests at home. By law, drivers caught drunk behind the wheel need to install an ignition interlock in their cars that will stop the engine from starting if any trace of alcohol is detected on a drivers' breath.
"We're making progress," said Richard Roth, director of Impact DWI. "But the problem is a lot of offenders are finding out how to avoid the ignition interlock." Read more...
Frank Ocean Cited for Marijuana Possession
Singer Frank Ocean was cited for possession of marijuana, driving on a suspended license and having tinted windows after police pulled the musician over for speeding in Mono County, California. Ocean was pulled over in his black BMW on New Year's Eve for going 90 mph in a 65 mph zone. When police approached his car they reportedly smelled pot, and a search allegedly turned up a small bag of it on his person. Read more...
January 03, 2013
Inmate Gets Prison Time for Meth Smuggling
A Lincoln inmate has been given more time after his mother smuggled methamphetamine-laced material into prison. Andre Baskin was sentenced Wednesday to one to two years for the incident. But credit for time served means he will be released in less than two months. Read more...
January 02, 2013
Man Charged With 6 Counts of DUI Manslaughter
The driver of a SUV that careened off a road and into a rain-swollen creek has been charged with six counts of DUI manslaughter. Neshoba County Sheriff Tommy Waddell says bond has been set at $150,000 for 34-year-old Duane John. John remained in the county jail. Waddell says John was arrested after his release from Neshoba County General Hospital. Read more...
Marijuana Clubs Pop Up in Colorado
With reggae music pumping in the background and flashing disco-style lights, members of the recreational pot club lit up in celebration of the new year — and a new place to smoke legally among friends. Club 64, in an industrial area just north of downtown Denver, opened at 4:20 p.m. on Monday, with some 200 people signed up. The opening came less than 24 hours after organizers announced they would charge a $29.99 admission price for the bring-your-own pot club. Read more...
Cameras to Help Monitor DUI Offenders
Law enforcement is adding another layer of safety precaution for drivers convicted of DUI: All new ignition interlock devices will feature a camera. Ignition interlock devices, which require a clean breath sample before allowing a car to start, have been used for years to keep those convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol from reoffending. But authorities said there have been cases of drivers asking a passenger or even a child to blow into the device for them. With the new devices, a camera automatically takes a snapshot of the driver whenever a sample is required. Read more...
December 31, 2012
Couple Charged for Exposing Child to Meth
Felony child endangerment charges have been filed against a Lake Stevens couple who allegedly smoked meth while an 11-month-old baby was with them in their vehicle. The girl's mother, 22, and her half-brother boyfriend, 35, were charged with one count each of child endangerment with a controlled substance. Read more...
December 28, 2012
Drunk Driver Arrested on Bill W's Lawn
Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge after driving onto the lawn of the historic home in Dorset once owned by the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Police say 55-year-old Donald Blood III of Marlboro, Mass., was ordered to appear in court in Bennington on Jan. 14. Police say Blood thought he was driving into a parking lot, but actually it was the lawn of the Wilson House, built in 1852, the birthplace of AA co-founder Bill Wilson. Read more...
Hall of Famer Fisk Pleads Guilty to DUI
Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge, two months after police found him asleep in his pickup truck in a suburban Chicago cornfield. Fisk, 64, was sentenced to one year of court supervision and must pay $1,250 in court costs. He also must undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and counseling. Fisk's attorney, Stephen White, said in Will County court that Fisk wanted to accept responsibility for what he did. Read more...
December 27, 2012
More Meth Labs Showing Up in Cities, Suburbs
Methamphetamine lab seizures are on the rise in the nation's cities and suburbs, raising new concerns about a lethal drug that has long been the scourge of rural America. Data and interviews from a media investigation found growing numbers of meth lab seizures in cities such as St. Louis, Nashville, Tenn., and Evansville, Ind. Authorities are also seeing evidence that inner-city gangs are becoming involved in meth production and distribution. Read more...
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Marines, Sailors to Face Random Alcohol Tests
Marines and sailors will be subject to random blood-alcohol tests twice a year in what is billed as the toughest anti-drinking policy in the U.S. military. Any Marine or sailor with a blood-alcohol level of 0.01 percent or higher may be referred for counseling. Anyone who tests at 0.04 percent or higher will be referred to medical personnel to determine fitness for duty. Read more...
December 26, 2012
Sooners DT Stacy McGee Arrested
The Oklahoma Sooners could be without a key defensive lineman against Texas A&M in the AT&T Cotton Bowl. Senior defensive tackle Stacy McGee was arrested on a complaint of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license, according to Cleveland County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Meghan McCormick. McGee was released from the Cleveland County Detention Center, McCormick said. Read more...
Chiefs Assistant Coach Arrested for DUI
Kansas City Chiefs assistant linebackers coach Adam Zimmer was arrested for driving while intoxicated after crashing his vehicle, a police spokesman said. The accident happened when Zimmer was the only person in the car, Kansas City Police Department spokesman Darin Snapp said. Zimmer failed sobriety tests and was released on $500 bond. Read more...
December 24, 2012
Meth Lab Found in Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Shoppers going to Wal-Mart were met by an unusual sight: a state police emergency clandestine lab drug team processing a vehicle housing a mobile methamphetamine lab. Saint Clair police discovered the lab about 5 a.m. while investigating a hit-and-run crash in the store's parking lot. As a result, Saint Clair police Chief Michael Carey said Felix Ferrer Jr., 39, was taken into custody while sleeping inside the Ford Windstar van that was struck by the hit-and-run driver. Read more...
Sen. Mike Crapo Arrested for DUI
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho was arrested in a suburb of Washington, D.C. for driving under the influence, according to a statement released by Alexandria, Va. police. Crapo was stopped after a patrol officer saw his vehicle go through a red light. After failing field sobriety tests, he was arrested and "taken into custody without incident." "There was no refusal (to take sobriety tests), no accident, no injuries," Alexandria Police spokesman Jody Donaldson told The Associated Press. "Just a traffic stop that resulted in a DUI." Read more...
December 21, 2012
Chemist Pleads Not Guilty in Drug Lab Case
A former Massachusetts drug lab chemist at the center of a scandal that threatens to unravel thousands of criminal cases pleaded not guilty to charges including perjury and evidence tampering. Annie Dookhan's arraignment on 15 charges in Suffolk Superior Court could be the first in a series of arraignments in other counties following a 27-count grand jury indictment. Read more...
December 20, 2012
Drug Lord's Daughter Freed
The attorney for a woman believed by U.S. authorities to be a daughter of Mexico's most-wanted drug lord says his client is back in Mexico after pleading guilty to an immigration charge. Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar pleaded guilty in San Diego to one count of fraud and misuse of visas. A judge ordered her released from prison, where she has been since her October arrest. Read more...
Sam Donaldson Arrested for DUI
Veteran ABC newsman Sam Donaldson is facing a court date stemming from a charge of driving under the influence. Police Chief Jeff Horvath tells Delaware 105.9 that an officer pulled Donaldson over on Savannah Road in Lewes, Del., on the evening of Dec. 1 because he had driven onto the shoulder. Donaldson, 78, failed a field sobriety test, was charged and released. Read more...
December 19, 2012
Mizzou Football Player Arrested
Mizzou freshman safety Ka'Ra Stewart of O'Fallon, Ill., was arrested on suspicion of possessing fewer than 35 grams of marijuana, according to the university police department. A spokesman for the athletic department said that Stewart has been dismissed from the football program. Stewart was arrested for the same offense in November and paid a $200 fine, according to court records. Read more...
Miss Las Cruces Arrested for DWI
A Las Cruces beauty queen isn't smiling because she won the crown. 22-year-old Sarah J. Richardson's latest photo shoot was her mug shot after being arrested for aggravated DWI in Las Cruces. Las Cruces police said Richardson crashed her PT Cruiser into a light pole at the intersection of Avenida De Mesilla and Hickory Drive. The pole fell over, hitting a nearby traffic light. Read more...
Matt Bush Sentenced for 3rd DUI
Matt Bush, a former top overall major league draft pick, has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for a drunken driving hit-and-run crash in Florida. As part of a deal, the 27-year-old pleaded no contest to driving under the influence with serious bodily injury. Six other counts in the March crash were dropped. Because it's his third DUI, Bush will also lose his license for 10 years. He has already spent nine months in jail. Authorities say Bush's blood alcohol level was 0.18 percent when he hit 72-year-old Tony Tufano's motorcycle and left the scene. Read more...
December 18, 2012
New Charges in Drug Lab Scandal
A Massachusetts chemist accused of deliberately faking test results on drug samples in criminal cases has been indicted on 27 charges. State Attorney General Martha Coakley says Annie Dookhan of Franklin was indicted by a grand jury on 17 counts of obstruction of justice, eight counts of tampering with evidence, perjury and pretending to hold a college degree. Read more...
Fraternity Members Charged in Hazing Death
Nearly two dozen members of a Northern Illinois University fraternity were charged with hazing crimes Monday after a student died following excessive drinking at a party last month. On the night before his death, freshman David Bogenberger went from room to room in the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, answering a series of questions in exchange for vodka and other liquor over a two-hour period, authorities said. Read more...
Steroids Found in Room of Garrett Reid
An investigation into the fatal heroin overdose of Garrett Reid, the oldest son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, revealed there were steroids in his room the day he died, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said. Anabolic steroids were found in the room where Garrett Reid was staying when he overdosed on heroin Aug. 5 during Eagles training camp. Reid was helping the team's strength and conditioning coach at the time of his death. Read more...
Amy Winehouse Death Probe Reopened
British authorities reopened the probe of Amy Winehouse's death, a year after the coroner who ruled the singer died of accidental alcohol poisoning resigned amid questions about her legal credentials. A new coroner's inquest into Winehouse's death will begin on January 8, London's Camden Council announced. Suzanne Greenaway lost her position as assistant deputy coroner, to which she was appointed by her husband, London Coroner Andrew Reid, after it was discovered that she had not been a registered lawyer in the United Kingdom for the requisite five years. Read more...
December 17, 2012
Officer Killed While Serving Drug Warrant
Memphis police officers were gathering funds for an officer who was fatally shot while serving a drug warrant. Officer Martovia Lang, a nine-year veteran of the force and her partner exchanged fire with a suspect who was also struck. Police Chief Toney Armstrong said Lang's partner, William Vromah was listed in stable condition at a local hospital. The condition of the 21-year-old suspect was not immediately known. Read more...
December 14, 2012
Teacher Charged With LSD Possession, DUI
A Berkeley schoolteacher was charged with LSD possession and drunken driving after a traffic stop in San Rafael, authorities said. Douglas Gray Haight, 51, is scheduled to be arraigned on two felony charges -- possessing LSD and bringing it into the Marin County Jail -- and a misdemeanor DUI charge, the district attorney's office said. Haight, an independent study teacher at an off-campus facility affiliated with Berkeley High School, is on paid administrative leave, said school district spokesman Mark Coplan. Read more...
December 13, 2012
Babysitter Charged With DWI
A babysitter was charged with driving while intoxicated after she flipped her car with the baby she was caring for in the backseat, police said. The infant was unhurt following the crash, but the babysitter, Deborah L. Angus, 53, of Roselle Park, suffered serious injuries, police said. Police found the 2012 Nissan sedan overturned in the road after crossing into oncoming traffic and striking a tree on a lawn. Read more...
Drunk Driver's Killer Still a Mystery
Investigators are trying to determine who fatally shot a suspected drunken driver after the man allegedly killed two brothers who were helping their father push the family's pickup truck down a rural Houston-area road. Neighbors say they heard gunshots minutes after the Friday night crash that killed 12-year-old David Barajas and his 11-year-old brother, Caleb. Police found the car's driver, Jose Banda, shot in the head. He later died. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan Has Probation Revoked
A Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner revoked the probation of actress Lindsay Lohan and ordered her to appear in court next month. "In the case ending 679, probation is revoked," Commissioner Jane Godfrey told Lohan's attorney in court. "Defendant ordered to appear." Lohan, 26, wasn't in court Wednesday. The probation violation hearing will be on January 15. Read more...
December 12, 2012
Teacher Charged With Cocaine Possession
An Aspen Middle School teacher is on administrative leave in the wake of a weekend arrest that led to charges of cocaine possession and driving under the influence, authorities said. Bruce Lee Johnson, 45, was booked into Pitkin County Jail after Aspen police arrested him around 12:46 a.m. He was placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation of the incident, Aspen Superintendent John Maloy confirmed. Read more...
Michael Madsen Hit With Two DUI Charges
Michael Madsen has been charged with two counts of driving under the influence (DUI) stemming from his arrest in September. The Kill Bill star's vehicle was pulled over by cops in Malibu, California after he was reportedly spotted driving erratically on the Pacific Coast Highway. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI after a sobriety test allegedly showed his blood alcohol content to be more than double the legal limit. One charge is for driving under the influence and the other is for driving with a blood alcohol count of .08 or higher. Read more...
December 11, 2012
Sooner's Powell Facing Felony Drug Charges
Sooners cornerback Joe Powell has a preliminary conference hearing scheduled for Dec. 18 on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. According to a Cleveland County court affidavit, Norman police connected Powell to the drugs when they tracked a FedEx package from California containing four pounds of "high-grade" marijuana. Powell had the package delivered to a friend's house on Oct. 8 under the guise that the package contained "shoes." When the package arrived, Powell had another friend go and pick it up and bring it to Powell's apartment, where a police surveillance team was stationed. Read more...
Taran Noah Smith Receives Diversion Sentence
Former Home Improvement kid star Taran Noah Smith plead guilty to driving under the influence and possession of concentrated cannabis stemming from his Feb. 1 arrest in a Los Angeles. Smith was in turn sentenced to a 12-hour program for the DUI offense, a six-month drug-diversion program for the marijuana charge and placed on three years' probation. If he completes the terms successfully and keeps on his best behavior for 18 months, the drug charge could be dismissed, according to Burbank City Attorney Danny Wei. Read more...
Brooke Mueller Could Be Jailed for Drinking
In addition to reportedly overdosing on Adderall December 7, Brooke Mueller faces more trouble, as she has reportedly violated her probation by drinking alcohol. Sources close to Charlie Sheen's ex say that when Mueller was hospitalized for the overdose, alcohol was found in her system. Mueller is currently on probation for felony drug possession, and part of the deal is no drinking alcohol. Read more...
December 10, 2012
Tech Basketball Assistant Arrested for DUI
Georgia Tech assistant basketball coach Josh Postorino was arrested last week for DUI in Jacksonville, Fla. Postorino was not with the team for Saturday's game against UNC Wilmington at McCamish Pavilion. Postorino was arrested by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and admitted to jail on a DUI charge. A statement from the team released just prior to Saturday's game said that he would not be on the bench "for an indefinite period of time in order to deal with personal issues." Read more...
Dallas Cowboy Killed in Crash, Teammate Charged
Dallas Cowboys practice-squad linebacker Jerry Brown was killed in a one-car accident Saturday and teammate Josh Brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter. Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the accident happened about 2:20 a.m. Saturday in the Dallas suburb. Brent was speeding when the vehicle hit a curb and flipped at least once, Argumaniz said. The police spokesman said officers conducted a field sobriety test on Brent and arrested him. The charge was upgraded after Brown was pronounced dead. Read more...
December 07, 2012
Orville Redenbacher's Granddaughter Busted
A great-granddaughter of prim snack kingpin Orville Redenbacher is in an Indiana prison after she was popped by police for drunk driving and assaulting cops and nurses at a hospital. Jones was arrested after she called police around 4 a.m. to say her car had become stuck on some train tracks. When cops arrived, they cuffed Jones for drunk driving. It eventually took eight people to restrain her, police said. Blood tests showed Jones' blood alcohol content was 0.23, nearly triple the legal limit to drive. Read more...
December 06, 2012
Former Magistrate Judge Sentenced for DUI
A former 5th District Court magistrate judge has been sentenced to 160 hours of community service after pleading guilty to driving under the influence. Nicole Cannon pleaded guilty and was sentenced for excessive DUI. She was fined $1,278.50, ordered to attend 16 hours of alcohol/DUI education classes. Cannon was charged in April after she was stopped by a Boise police officer. Two tests found her blood-alcohol level to be 0.239 and 0.221, nearly three times the limit. Read more...
December 05, 2012
Single-Car Crash Leads to 3 DUI Arrests
A single-car crash in Rhode Island led to three separate DUI arrests, all of which had nothing to do with the initial crash. A van slammed into a utility pole about 1 a.m. Sunday, police told WLNE-TV in Providence. That crash was not DUI-related, but it set off a chain of events that kept police busy over the next few hours. Read more...
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Rep. Tim Ryan Arrested for Public Intoxication
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) was arrested in August for public intoxication, according to Virginia court records and a Ryan spokesman. The misdemeanor case was dismissed Tuesday by a court in Rockbridge County, Va. Ryan spokesman Pat Lowry confirmed the arrest and dismissal. Lowry maintains the congressman was not intoxicated. He also confirmed that Ryan declined to submit to a breathalyzer test. Read more...
Marijuana Charge Dropped Against Lions' Fairley
A Mobile municipal judge has dismissed a misdemeanor marijuana charge against Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley. Defense attorney Sid Harrell said the charge was dismissed. Judge Matt Greene agreed with prosecutors that there wasn't enough evidence to show partially smoked marijuana cigarettes found in Fairley's vehicle on April 3 belonged to the former first-round pick out of Auburn. Harrell says Fairley passed a drug test Tuesday, is tested several times a week by the NFL and has passed them all. Read more...
Home Improvement Star Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge
Former child star Taran Noah Smith has pleaded guilty to cannabis possession. The actor, best known for his role in US comedy show "Home Improvement," was pulled over in Los Angeles County in February and cited for driving under the influence (DUI) of marijuana. He was arrested when cops found drugs in the vehicle and subsequently charged with misdemeanour possession. Smith pleaded guilty to the drug possession charge. He pleaded no contest to a DUI charge. Read more...
December 04, 2012
Man Sentenced in Drunk Driving Death
An Augusta man is going to prison after his best friend died in a drunk driving crash. Michael Brandt, 30, was sentenced to five to 15 years after a jury convicted him of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and causing death. Battle Creek police and Calhoun County prosecutors alleged that Brandt was driving a car between 83 and 88 miles per hour while he was legally drunk when he collided with another car on Dickman Road at Washington Avenue on Sept. 17, 2011. Read more...
December 03, 2012
DUI Suspected in Arrest of 49ers' Dobbs
Backup defensive end Demarcus Dobbs was arrested after he was involved in a solo car crash. The California Highway Patrol said driving under the influence was suspected and that Dobbs, who turned 25 Friday, was arrested for marijuana possession. Officer D.J. Sarabia said the incident occurred at 3:45 a.m. on southbound San Tomas Expressway in Santa Clara, where the 49ers have their practice facility and are building their new stadium. Read more...
Sooners WR Jalen Saunders Arrested
Oklahoma Sooners receiver Jalen Saunders and cornerback Cortez Johnson were arrested Sunday morning on a complaint of possession of a controlled substance, according to the Cleveland County Sherriff's Office. Saunders and Johnson were arrested for possession of marijuana and released, a spokesman for the Cleveland County Jail confirmed. Read more...
November 30, 2012
Vallejo Rapper Arrested on Drug Charges
A Vallejo rapper accused of leading an Ecstasy drug ring connected with a record label has been arrested in Las Vegas, federal prosecutors said. Michael Lott, who performs as Miami the Most, was one of more than two dozen people charged in April with distributing Ecstasy and other drugs. He was arrested Wednesday and will be brought to Sacramento for further proceedings, authorities said. Read more...
November 29, 2012
Randy Travis Done With Alcohol?
Randy Travis has given up alcohol "Forever and Ever, Amen." The country singer's lawyer told TMZ he has "eliminated alcohol from his daily life." "[Randy] works out three hours every day and is in the best shape of his life," Larry Friedman told the website, adding, "He has a high protein diet and takes a lot of vitamins." Travis' drinking habits were brought into the spotlight back in February when he was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication. Cops found the singer with an open bottle of wine in his car, which was parked in front of a church in Texas. Then in August, the 53-year-old was charged with a DWI after he crashed his car while driving around naked about 60 miles north of Dallas. Travis also threatened police during his arrest. Later in August, Travis was reportedly caught fighting his girlfriend's ex-husband in another church parking lot. Read more...
Amy Locane Guilty in Fatal Drunk-Driving Accident
Amy Locane, who portrayed Sandy for 13 episodes on the 1990s Fox hit drama "Melrose Place" has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter by a jury in New Jersey. The actress, who now goes by Amy Locane-Bovenizer, faces five to 10 years in prison. The New Jersey jury acquitted Locane-Bovenizer, 40, of the more serious charge of aggravated manslaughter that stemmed from a 2010 accident that killed a 60-year-old woman and injured her husband. Read more...
November 28, 2012
Red Wings Prospect Had .30 BAC
Detroit Red Wings prospect Riley Sheahan reportedly had a blood-alcohol content of .30 when he was arrested Oct. 29 by Grand Rapids Police on charges of "super drunk" driving and giving false information. The 20-year old, playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins, also was carrying teammate Brendan Smith's Michigan driver's license and wearing a purple Teletubby costume when he was pulled over shortly before midnight in downtown Grand Rapids. The police report says Sheahan, the No. 21 overall pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, was driving the wrong way on Ottawa Avenue. Read more...
November 27, 2012
Driver of Dangling Pickup 6 Times Legal Limit
Police say a driver whose truck crashed through an overpass guard rail and dangled above a busy Oregon highway for nearly an hour had six times the legal limit of alcohol in his system. Firefighters using a ladder and basket plucked 38-year-old Matthew Alan Hamilton, of Beaverton, from the truck above Highway 217 on Saturday afternoon. Read more...
Driver in Fatal DUI Was Drug Counselor
Sherri Wilkins wrote that "she used to be into drugs very heavy" and "with that came terrible choices." Wilkins was trying to turn her life around: She wrote that she had been sober for 11 years, had reconnected with family and, according to state records, earned a certification in drug and alcohol counseling. She was working at a Torrance treatment center, helping others battle the addiction she tried to put behind her. But over the weekend, Wilkins struck a pedestrian while allegedly driving drunk on Torrance Boulevard and kept driving for more than two miles with the man embedded in her windshield, according to police. Read more...
New Jersey Bans Synthetic Marijuana
New Jersey authorities announced today that a temporary ban on so-called synthetic marijuana has been made permanent, placing the designer drug in the same legal category as cocaine and heroin. In February, the state Division of Consumer Affairs initially banned the drug - marketed as herbal incense under the brand names K2, Spice, and Kush, among others - for a 270-day period pending public input. Until then it was sold in the Garden State at convenience stores, gas stations, and shops selling smoking paraphernalia. Read more...
Pitt's Zeigler Suspended for DUI Charges
Pitt basketball coach Jamie Dixon has indefinitely suspended junior transfer Trey Zeigler, who apologized for being charged with drunken driving after police said he was found passed out behind the wheel. Dixon issued a statement Monday calling the incident "not only surprising, but incredibly disappointing" and "out of character" for Zeigler, who transferred to Pitt this season from Central Michigan after his father was fired as coach there in March. Read more...
November 26, 2012
Woman Blames DUI on Date Rape Drug
A Missoula woman will get another chance to plead her case that she shouldn't have been charged with driving under the influence because she'd been slipped a date rape drug that caused her impairment. The Montana Supreme Court last week kicked Leigh Paffhausen's case back to a lower court, saying she should get the chance to offer evidence that her actions in 2010 were involuntary. "A hearing is a small price to pay if seeking justice and not simply a conviction is the object of criminal prosecutions," Justice James C. Nelson wrote for the majority in the 4-3 opinion. Read more...
George Ryan's Son Cited for DUI
George H. Ryan Jr., son of former Gov. George Ryan, was cited for driving under the influence after he was found sleeping in a running pickup truck in a White Castle parking lot in Downstate Bradley, authorities said. Officers said they found Ryan around midnight at the wheel of a running gray pickup truck parked across several parking spaces at the fast food restaurant located 60 miles south of Chicago. Read more...
November 23, 2012
ADHD Patients More Likely to Commit Crimes
Older teens and adults with attention deficit disorder are much less likely to commit a crime while on ADHD medication, a provocative study from Sweden found. It also showed in dramatic fashion how much more prone people with ADHD are to break the law — four to seven times more likely than others. The findings suggest that Ritalin, Adderall and other drugs that curb hyperactivity and boost attention remain important beyond the school-age years and that wider use of these medications in older patients might help curb crime. Read more...
November 21, 2012
Alcohol a Factor in Kyle Bennett's Death
Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett's blood had an alcohol level twice the legal level for drunken driving when he died in a car crash in Southeast Texas. Bennett was 33 when he died in a single-vehicle crash happened the morning of Oct. 14 in Conroe, Texas, north of Houston. In an autopsy report, the Montgomery County medical examiner found that Bennett had a blood alcohol content of 0.145 percent by volume. The legal standard in Texas is 0.08 percent. Read more...
Mark Ditka Ordered to Jail, Then Freed
Mark Ditka, son of former Bears coach Mike Ditka, was ordered to Lake County Jail after failing to convince a judge that the opiate prosecutors said was found in his system during a drug test was prescribed by a doctor. But Ditka was released from custody a short time later after his lawyer succeeded in getting another judge to lower his bail. Judge Brian Hughes increased bail from $25,000 to $50,000 for Ditka, who is awaiting trial on his fourth DUI charge. Read more...
November 20, 2012
Drunk Driver Sentenced to 10 Years in Church
An Oklahoma judge who sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 10 years of church attendance as part of deferred sentence for DUI manslaughter is standing by his sentence as the right thing to do -- even if it may not have been the constitutional thing to do. Tyler Alred received the sentence after driving a Chevrolet pickup into a tree in the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2011. His passenger and friend, 16-year old John Dum, was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more...
Student Charged in Drug Overdose
A 21-year-old Tinley Park woman has been charged with felony obstruction of justice in connection with the drug overdose death of a Frankfort woman at Lewis University in southwest suburban Romeoville. Jamie Olson remained in the Will County Adult Detention Facility in Joliet and was scheduled to appear at a bail hearing. Olson allegedly tried to conceal her involvement in the heroin overdose death of Anna A. Marinier, who was visiting her at Lewis University, Romeoville Assistant Police Chief Steven Lucchesi said. Read more...
UGA Baseball Player Arrested for DUI
A freshman outfielder and pitcher for the University of Georgia baseball team has been arrested on charges of public intoxication and underage possession of alcohol. Jail records show Kyle Clark was being held Monday in the Athens-Clarke County Jail. Christopher Lakos, a UGA athletics department spokesman, said coach David Perno "is aware of the situation with Kyle, and he's looking in to the matter." Read more...
November 19, 2012
Parents in Drugged Driving Case Charged
The parents of a New York teenager responsible for the high-speed car crash that killed four of his friends have been charged in the case. Long Island prosecutors say Aaditia and Patricia Beer, of Queens, allowed their son Joseph to drive the family's 2012 Subaru on October 8 even though he only had a learner's permit. Joseph Beer was high on marijuana and going more than 110 mph on the Southern State Parkway when he lost control and crashed into the woods. Read more...
November 17, 2012
Pot Smoking Teen Charged in 4 Deaths
A teenager who tested positive for marijuana was arrested in the death of four of his friends in a Long Island car crash after felony charges in an indictment were unsealed, a prosecutor said. Joseph Beer, 17, of Queens, pleaded not guilty in state court to charges stemming from the crash last month on the Southern State Parkway. Bail was set at $2 million. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said multiple felonies were brought after an analysis of a blood sample taken from Beer two hours after the crash tested positive for marijuana. Read more...
Singer Bobby Brown Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
Recording artist Bobby Brown pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court Friday to driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Brown was charged with DUI, driving with a restricted license and driving a vehicle without a vehicle interlock device after he was arrested last month. His license was restricted and he was ordered to install a breathalyzer device that prevents his car from starting if he has had an alcoholic beverage to drink, following a previous DUI conviction. Read more...
Joe Simpson Pleads No Contest in DUI Case
Ashlee and Jessica Simpson's dad pleaded no contest earlier this week to driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or above in Van Nuys, Calif., the L.A. City Attorney's Office confirmed. Joe was sentenced to 36 months' probation, fined $390 plus penalties and ordered to complete a three-month alcohol-education program. A separate count of driving under the influence stemming from his August arrest was dismissed. The charge being a misdemeanor, Joe wasn't required to be in court and his attorney entered the plea on his behalf. Read more...
November 16, 2012
Charges Dropped Against Bon Jovi's Daughter
Drug charges against the daughter of rock star Jon Bon Jovi were dropped a day after she suffered a suspected heroin overdose, officials in New York said. Oneida County District Attorney Scott D. McNamara said in a statement that Stephanie Bongiovi could not be charged because New York law prohibits the prosecution of people who had overdosed and were in possession of small amounts of drugs. Read more...
November 15, 2012
Stephanie Bongiovi Arrested After Drug Overdose
Rock star Jon Bon Jovi's daughter was arrested in New York state on drug possession charges following a suspected heroin overdose, local police said. Stephanie Bongiovi, 19, was found unresponsive in a dormitory room at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York from an alleged overdose and taken to a local medical facility, according to the Town of Kirkland Police Department. Heroin and marijuana were found in the dorm room during a search, police said. Read more...
November 14, 2012
Top Wings Prospect Arraigned on DUI Charge
Riley Sheahan, the Red Wings' No. 1 draft pick in 2010, was arrested Oct. 29 and charged with driving with an alcohol content more than two times the legal limit, the team confirmed. According to the team, police said Sheahan, 20, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.17 or higher and provided false information after being stopped for going the wrong way on a one-way street. Sheahan, who pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Nov. 6 in Grand Rapids District Court, faces up to 180 days in jail. Read more...
News Anchor Arrested on DUI Charges
A local television news anchor was arrested on DUI charges on Sunday after she was involved in a wrong-way crash, according to Atlanta police. Amanda Davis, an anchor at WAGA in Atlanta, was driving northbound in the southbound lane of Piedmont Avenue near 14th Street in Midtown when the crash ocurred, according to Atlanta police spokesman Gregory Lyon. Davis refused to a field sobriety test and state-administered chemical tests, Lyon said. Read more...
Former Hawaii QB Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
An attorney for former Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan pleaded not guilty on behalf of the former star accused of driving under the influence of alcohol. District Court Judge Dean Ochiai in Kaneohe set a trial for Jan. 2 for Brennan. Brennan, who was third in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 2007, did not attend the brief hearing. Brennan was arrested in Kailua in July. Police said in their report that Brennan had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.17 percent. Police said they also found a plastic bag with cocaine residue in the rented car Brennan was driving, but prosecutors decided against drug charges, saying they couldn't fully prove the drugs belonged to Brennan. Read more...
Steelers Release Alameda Ta'amu
The Steelers released backup nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu a month after the rookie fourth-round pick's drunken driving incident. Ta'amu fell out of favor with the team last month, when he was arrested after police said he crashed into several other cars and then ran away from officers. He'll be formally arraigned Dec. 31 on felony charges of aggravated assault by vehicle and fleeing and eluding police, as well as misdemeanor charges including resisting arrest, escape and DUI. Read more...
November 13, 2012
Mom Charged With Smoking Meth With Teen
A southwest Missouri woman has been charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child for smoking methamphetamine with her 13-year-old daughter. The Springfield woman told police she might have smoked meth with her daughter five or six times. Read more...
November 12, 2012
11-Month-Old ODs on Heroin
A mother in Delaware County was charged Friday with the heroin- overdose death of her 11-month-old son. Christina Rivero, 28, told investigators conflicting stories about the July 15 death of her son, Niccolo Varner, at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Collingdale police said. She was charged with third-degree murder, endangering the welfare of children and other crimes. An autopsy and subsequent toxicology report found that Niccolo's cause of death was acute heroin intoxication. Read more...
Minnesota Coach Pleds Guilty to DUI
Saul Smith sat hunched over an iPad for nearly half an hour awaiting his sentencing in the Hennepin County district court. The assistant coach's shoulders sagged, but he walked out of the courtroom with his head held a little higher after pleading guilty to an Oct. 20 drunken driving incident. Smith was sentenced to 40 hours of community service within 180 days, a one-day Hennepin County DWI program and a $300 fine plus a $78 surcharge. Read more...
November 10, 2012
Mother Charged in Baby's Heroin Death
The mother of an 11-month-old who died after ingesting heroin is facing murder charges, authorities announced. The Delaware County Medical Examiner's Office determined Tuesday that Niccolo Varner died from ingesting heroin on July 15. Paramedics were called to his Lincoln Avenue home and he was rushed to Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, but police say the baby had died long before ever being taken to the hospital. The boy's mother, Christine Rivero, is now charged with third-degree murder, criminal homicide, reckless endangerment of a child and aggravated assault. Read more...
220 Washington Marijuana Cases Dismissed
King and Pierce County prosecutors are dismissing more than 220 misdemeanor marijuana cases in response to Tuesday's vote to decriminalize small amounts of pot. In King County, 175 cases are being dismissed involving people 21 and older and possession of one ounce or less. I-502 makes one ounce of marijuana legal on Dec. 6, but King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg decided to apply I-502 retroactively. "Although the effective date of I-502 is not until December 6, there is no point in continuing to seek criminal penalties for conduct that will be legal next month," Satterberg said in a statement. Read more...
Former UGA Running Back Charged With DUI
Former University of Georgia running back Caleb King remained in jail after being charged with driving under the influence in Buford. King, 24, of Lilburn, was stopped at the intersection of Cumming Highway and Suwanee Dam Road after he allegedly flashed his high-beam headlights while driving behind an officer. King was also allegedly driving a 2006 Dodge Charger in the middle of the roadway, halfway in his lane and halfway in the lane for oncoming traffic, the report states. Read more...
Lakers' Devin Ebanks Arrested for DUI
Lakers forward Devin Ebanks was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI, according to law enforcement sources and booking records. Ebanks, 23, was pulled over at 2:49 a.m. in the Hollywood area by California Highway Patrol officers and booked at 3:44 a.m. Ebanks was released after posting $5,000 bail. His next scheduled court date is Dec. 7, according to booking records. Read more...
November 09, 2012
NFL Lineman Waives DUI Court Appearance
Detroit Lions defensive lineman Nick Fairley did not appear in a Mobile courtroom for his arraignment on drunken driving and reckless driving charges. Fairley instead waived his court appearance. The former Auburn University star's lawyer said he expects the case to be heard in January. Fairley hopes to enter a pre-trial diversion program, which could lead to the charges being dismissed. Read more...
November 08, 2012
Man Sentenced for 12th DUI Conviction
A Virginia man convicted for the 12th time in a drunken driving case will serve the maximum sentence. David Marion Apraham, 44, of Spotsylvania received a seven-year sentence in Spotsylvania Circuit Court. Apraham had pleaded guilty in August to DUI, driving on a suspended license and refusing to take a breath test. Read more...
2 States Vote to Legalize Marijuana
Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21 when voters passed ballot initiatives in the 2012 General Election. But implementing the will of the voters in those states may be a long time coming if the efforts are challenged by federal authorities. Read more...
November 07, 2012
Justices Ponder Use of Drug-Sniffing Dogs
Franky and Aldo were not at the Supreme Court to defend their drug-detecting abilities, but it is likely they would have had little to say to the justices who were probing the limits and reliability of their talents when police search for contraband. The German shepherd and chocolate Labrador were in Florida, where the appeals over their work originated. At issue: When and if dog "sniffs" of illegal substances can justify subsequent searches of homes and cars. Two appeals from criminal defendants could have far-reaching effects on when a person's private holdings can be subjected to intrusion without clear probable cause or a valid search warrant. Read more...
Two Marijuana-Legalization Measures Pass
Ballot measures to legalize casual marijuana use were leading in Washington state and Colorado, but a similar measure lost in Oregon. Both measures call for marijuana to be legalized and regulated similar to alcohol. Marijuana advocates claimed double victories. Read more...
Georgina Zogby Sentenced for DUI
A tearful Georgina Zogby was sentenced in Cumberland County Court to 36 months of supervised probation for refusing to stop for police and driving while drunk. Today was the last court appearance for the 48-year-old wife of the State Budget Secretary. Zogby faced four criminal charges in 2010 and 2011 for two driving under the influence arrests and two for shoplifting. Her story caught the public's attention, not because of her actions, but because her husband Charles Zogby is the State Budget Secretary. Read more...
November 06, 2012
Man Sentenced for Fatal Halloween DUI
A 42-year-old Las Vegas man has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison in the drunken-driving death of a 12-year-old trick-or-treater a little more than a year ago. Justin Caramanica Kikikoi was sentenced following his guilty plea in July to driving under the influence during the crash that killed Faith Love on Oct. 31, 2011. Love was trick-or-treating as a Native American princess when she was struck by Caramanica's car on a residential street in western Las Vegas. Read more...
Drunk Babysitter Sentenced to 12 Years
A woman who got drunk and allowed her 15-month-old nephew to drown in her backyard swimming pool was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Erin Robyn Lottmann, 36, pleaded guilty to felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. Lottmann was baby-sitting the boy, John Robert Howard of Warrenton, at her home on Aug. 1, 2011. She got drunk and went swimming with the child. Tests showed Lottmann's blood-alcohol content was 0.308 percent. Read more...
November 05, 2012
Marijuana Use on Ballots in Six States
Marijuana advocates have placed measures on ballots in six states dealing with the recreational or medical use of the drug, defying federal efforts to crack down on use where it's already legal.
Voters in Oregon, Washington and Colorado will decide whether their states will become the first to legalize recreational use of marijuana. In Massachusetts and Arkansas, voters will consider legalizing it for medical use. In Montana, they'll decide whether to affirm or reject a 2011 law that scaled back a 2004 initiative legalizing medical marijuana. Read more...
Missouri Player Arrested for Marijuana Possession
Another Missouri freshman football player has been arrested in a marijuana possession case. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested tight end Brandon Holifield for possession of under 35 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to have a valid driver's license and speeding. The arrest occurred in Boone County, and Holifield posted $300 bond for the license charge and $500 bond for the possession charge. Read more...
Arkansas Linebacker Williams Suspended After DWI
Terrell Williams, a senior linebacker for the University of Arkansas' football team, has been suspended indefinitely following an arrest on charges of driving while intoxicated. Williams, 21, was also charged with driving left of the center lane and violation of Arkansas' implied consent law. After failing a field sobriety test, Williams became "very uncooperative with deputies" and "refused to follow directions and became very argumentative," according to the report. Read more...
Michael Wright Arrested After Hitting a Police Car
Michael Wright recently had a run-in with the law. The Eddie King Jr. of "The Five Heartbeats" was taken into custody after reportedly crashing his car into another vehicle which was occupied by two police officers. He hit the police car when trying to park his 1978 black Rolls Royce in Manhattan. The "Sugar Hill" star failed sobriety test when asked to take one after the cops detected the smell of alcohol. According to law enforcement sources, his blood alcohol level was above the legal limit. Read more...
Octomom's Father Joins Daughter in Rehab
Nadya Suleman gave a great example to her daddy, Edward Doud Suleman, when she entered a rehab facility. Inspired by her daughter's decision to get a special treatment for her "anxiety, exhaustion, and stress" due to her addiction to Xanax, Ed checked into the same facility with her to get help for his alcohol addiction. Nadya's spokesperson said her father entered the Chapman House Rehabilitation Center to join an alcohol dependency program for 28 days. According to the representative, Ed's drinking habit has been back for decades. Read more...
November 02, 2012
'Flight' Movie Explores Depths of Alcoholism
"Flight" joins a long list of movies — including "The Lost Weekend," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "The Verdict," "Clean & Sober" and this year's Sundance Film Festival hit "Smashed" (arriving in theaters later this month) — that spotlight the ravages of alcoholism and provide a showcase for an actor to sink his teeth into a really meaty role. It's, in the end, inconsequential to the real story, which centers on Whip's substance abuse and the competing forces to allow him to confront it or maintain denial. Read more...
Landlord Arrested After Reporting Meth Lab
A landlord and his wife were still reeling from spending two days in the Clayton County Jail this week after reporting to police that they had found bags of methamphetamine in their rental property. "I'm still in disbelief," Michael Keeley told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Keeley and his new bride, Channel, are free on $5,000 bond each after being charged with tampering with drug evidence recovered Sunday from their rental home in Rex. Read more...
November 01, 2012
Couple Indicted for Planting Pot on Son's Teacher
A married couple accused of trying to frame an elementary school parent volunteer by planting marijuana and pills in her car have been indicted by an Orange County Grand Jury. The couple, Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 39, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to procure false arrest, false imprisonment and conspiracy to falsely report a crime, prosecutors said. Read more...
Former LSU Quarterback Back in Jail
Former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson was incarcerated again Tuesday, days after his arrest in Baton Rouge, La., on suspicion of marijuana possession. District Judge Chip Moore ordered Jefferson imprisoned for violating terms of a bond he posted last year after the quarterback was charged with battery following a bar fight. Jefferson was booked into jail and was undergoing a substance-abuse evaluation. Read more...
October 31, 2012
'Octomom' Enters Rehab for Xanax Addiction
Nadya "Octomom" Suleman has entered rehab for prescription drug addiction, and her 14 children reportedly will remain with nannies for at least the next month. Suleman, 37, checked into the Chapman House Treatment Center last week because of "anxiety, exhaustion, and stress" linked to a Xanax addiction, her rep says. Read more...
October 30, 2012
11 Rice Students Treated for Alcohol Poisoning
Eleven Rice University students at an on-campus "Night of Decadence" Halloween party have been treated for alcohol poisoning. The school in Houston released a statement saying ambulances were called to assist with transporting the students to a hospital. Officials say all 11 students were treated and released. Organizers say more than 1,000 people attended Saturday night's party where alcohol was available for students of legal drinking age. Read more...
Father Arrested for Feeding Alcohol to Infant
Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested 19-year-old Belle Chasse man for allegedly feeding his 2-month-old son enough alcohol to register a .289 percent blood alcohol content. Cesar Ruiz was booked Sunday with attempted first-degree murder. In Louisiana, drivers are considered legally drunk when their blood alcohol level is .08 percent or more. The infant, Lucas Ruiz, was initially admitted to the pediatric unit at Ochsner Hospital on Oct. 16 because of breathing difficulties. Read more...
October 29, 2012
Drunk Driver Crashes Through Home's Garage
A Bolingbrook man was drunk when he crashed his van into a parked car, then through a home's garage wall a few streets away early this morning, police said. Michael D. Karwoske, 36, of Bolingbrook, faces a charge of driving under the influence and citations including improper lane usage, driving too fast for conditions and operating an uninsured motor vehicle, Bolingbrook Police Lt. Mike Rompa said. Read more...
October 27, 2012
Grammy Song Was All About Marijuana
Toni Braxton has confessed her 1996 Grammy Award-winning tune "You're Making Me High" is all about the joys of marijuana use. Fans and the singer's family have always thought the song is a sexy and sensual ode to new love, but the singer herself admits it's all about getting high. In a new interview for an upcoming VH1 Behind The Music expose, she reveals, "A week before (writing the song with Babyface and Bryce Wilson), I was introduced to marijuana, and I got high for the first time and so I added that in the song. Read more...
October 26, 2012
Meth Addict Accused in Burglary Sues Homeowner
A 90-year-old California man who was shot during an alleged burglary has reportedly been sued by the admitted methamphetamine addict who allegedly shot him. Samuel Cutrufelli, 31, claims Jay Leone "negligently shot" him during a January confrontation inside Leone's home in Greenbrae. Authorities have said Cutrufelli entered the home and put a gun to Leone's head before binding the elderly man with a belt and rummaging through the residence for valuables. Read more...
Mark Grace Indicted in DUI Case
Former Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman and television analyst Mark Grace has been indicted in a DUI case and could face nearly four years in prison if he's convicted, authorities said. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said a grand jury indicted Grace on Oct. 3 on four felony counts of aggravated driving or actual physical control while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs. Grace is not probation eligible because it was his second DUI charge in a 15-month span. Read more...
'Honey Badger' Busted for Drugs Again
Police say they arrested four former LSU football players, including one-time Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu, after finding them with marijuana at Mathieu's apartment. Baton Rouge police said they also arrested ex-LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, and former defensive backs Derrick Bryant and Karnell Hatcher. Police say Mathieu, Jefferson and Hatcher were booked on charges of marijuana possession while Bryant faces a charge of possession with intent to distribute. Read more...
October 25, 2012
Teacher Finds Meth Lab on Playground
A Tennessee teacher discovered the remnants of a mobile methamphetamine lab on a playground when she took her class out for recess. "Meth-making material that was part of a shake-and-bake meth lab was discovered on the school playground," Sgt. Kyle Evans, Murfreesboro, Tenn., police spokesman said. Children did not come in contact with the drug-making paraphernalia -- a soda bottle and plastic tubing -- but the area was decontaminated as a precaution. No drugs were found inside the bottle, which had a hole poked in the top. Read more...
Bobby Brown Arrested Again on DUI Charge
Singer Bobby Brown faces his second drunken driving charge this year after a Los Angeles police officer pulled him over in the Studio City community, police said. The officer smelled "a strong scent of alcohol" when he approached Brown during the Ventura Boulevard traffic stop, prompting a field sobriety test, a police spokesman said. After the test, Brown was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and booked into a jail, the police spokesman said. He was released on bond about seven hours later, he said. Read more...
October 24, 2012
Fergie: God Saved Me from Crystal Meth
Fergie recently sat down with Oprah, and revealed how she was once addicted to crystal meth, and she thanks God for saving her. Fergie said her drug addiction had gotten so bad she became paranoid she was being followed by the FBI and SWAT teams. The 37-year-old singer said she was able to quit drugs after going to church and making a deal with God. Read more...
Carlton Fisk Charged With DUI
Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk was charged with a DUI in New Lenox, Ill., after he was found unconscious behind the wheel of his vehicle, which was found in the middle of a corn field, according to New Lenox police. "We received a couple of calls about a vehicle in a field," Deputy Chief Bob Pawlisz said. "When officers went over there, they found Mr. Fisk unconscious behind the wheel. Read more...
Michigan RB Toussaint Sentenced for DUI
Michigan running back Fitzgerald Toussaint has been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, pay fines and undergo random drug and alcohol tests. He pleaded guilty in August to operating a vehicle while visibly impaired after facing the more serious charge of operating while intoxicated. Toussaint has acknowledged he was stopped for running a red light after drinking brandy. Police said he had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent. Read more...
October 23, 2012
Girl, 12, Hooked on Heroin by Mom
Rebecca Rachelle Hill told police she and her pre-teen daughter regularly liked to do the same things. Their shared interests included a heroin habit that left the 12-year-old so addicted she was hospitalized for drug withdrawal last week, according to felony charges against Hill. She told police she regularly gave the girl heroin and marijuana and brought her along on shoplifting trips. Read more...
Tony Scott Autopsy Shows Anti-Depressant, Sleep Aid
Tony Scott, the famed director who committed suicide on August 19, had anti-depressants and a sleep aid in his system when he died. The results of Scott's autopsy, which were released on October 22, show that he died of multiple blunt force injuries, suffered after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles Harbor. The Los Angeles County coroner said that Scott also drowned and had in his system "therapeutic levels" of the anti-depressant medication Remeron and the sleep aid Lunesta. Read more...
October 22, 2012
School Hires Cop Convicted of Fetal DUI
Parents of students attending a New York Catholic school are angry that a former police officer who served more than a decade in jail for killing a family of four in a drunken driving incident is now working at the school. Last week, disgraced cop Joseph Gray, 51, was hired to work as a janitor at St. Clare's School in Staten Island, the Staten Island Advance reported. He was conditionally discharged on April 27, after being denied parole three times, most recently in January of last year. Read more...
October 20, 2012
Andrea Ownbey Arrested for DUI
Andrea Ownbey -- aka the reigning 'Miss Howard Stern' pageant winner -- was arrested for DUI earlier this month after cops say she drunkenly smashed into another car and didn't even realize it. According to the police report, the 29-year-old Ownbey -- who's been Miss Howard Stern since 2002 -- hit another car on the streets of Chattanooga, Tennessee sometime after 10pm on October 8. A cop who happened to be in the area, claims he heard the accident and rushed to the scene -- only to find Ownbey in her car ... reeking of booze ... and fumbling to put her cell phone back together. Read more...
October 19, 2012
Anna Nicole Smith Judge Overturned
An appellate court said a trial judge erred in dismissing conspiracy convictions against Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist and manager at the end of a contentious trial centering on celebrities' use of prescription drugs. The ruling came after Superior Court Judge Robert Perry chose to throw out the 2010 jury verdict that manager Howard K. Stern and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich conspired to obtain prescription drugs for the troubled model by using false names. Read more...
Garrett Reid Died of Heroin Overdose
The Northampton County coroner has confirmed that the son of Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid died from an accidental heroin overdose on Aug. 5. Coroner Zachary Lysek ruled 29-year-old Garrett Reid's cause of death "acute opiate (heroin) toxicity" and stated that the "manner of death is classified as accidental." Garrett Reid was found dead in his dorm room at Lehigh University, where he had been assisting the Eagles strength and conditioning coach during training camp. He had a long publicized battle with addiction to heroin, which resulted in a 2007 arrest and subsequent prison time. Read more...
October 18, 2012
Los Gatos Doctor Faces Drug Charges
A pediatrician who served until recently as a top administrator of Santa Clara County's health plan has been arrested and charged with numerous felonies for allegedly writing prescriptions for addictive drugs like OxyContin to convicted drug offenders in exchange for cash and methamphetamine, authorities said. Dr. Marvin Bonham, 61, of Los Gatos, former medical director of the Valley Health Plan, Health and Hospital System of Santa Clara County, wrote a "substantial number of prescriptions for major drugs of abuse" to 29 people in less than two years, prosecutors said. More than half of them had criminal histories, including arrests for drug use or sales, prosecutors said. Read more...
Texas Tech Starting Center Arrested
Police say Texas Tech's starting center was arrested on charges of misdemeanor public intoxication and disorderly conduct after police were called to a bar fight near campus last weekend. Athletic department spokesman Blayne Beal said that center Deveric Gallington will play for the No. 18 Red Raiders at TCU on Saturday. No injuries were reported in the fight just hours after Texas Tech beat then-No. 5 West Virginia 49-14. Read more...
October 17, 2012
DJ Paul Arrested for Public Drinking
Why was Three 6 Mafia member DJ Paul walking around with a Taser gun? "I use it for personal protection," is what he allegedly told a cop when he was busted for drinking an open container of Corona beer after leaving a New York restaurant. DJ Paul (née Paul Beauregard) was charged with weapons possession and public drinking. Read more...
Actor Matthew Fox Embarrassed About DUI
In a talk show appearance, "Lost" actor Matthew Fox admitted that he was driving while intoxicated and said he was embarrassed about getting a DUI. "I got a DUI in Bend, Oregon, where I live now, very happily," Fox said. "I was not happy about the DUI at all. I was terribly embarrassed by that and take full responsibility for it. I really own that and have done every single thing the state of Oregon requires for a first-time DUI offender. I have learned a ton. I did four weeks of alcohol informational training. And just learned an enormous amount. One of the statistics that I learned is that 50 percent of people that get one DUI will get another. I found that pretty astounding after what I've been through. I will absolutely not be in the statistic. There is just no way." Read more...
October 16, 2012
Daughter of Mexican Drug Lord Arrested
U.S. officials say the daughter of the leader of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been arrested on suspicion of trying to enter the United States on someone else's passport. Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar was arrested Friday at San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry and charged with fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents. Read more...
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October 15, 2012
Cartels Flood U.S. With Cheap Meth
Mexican drug cartels are quietly filling the void in the nation's drug market created by the long effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities with exceptionally cheap, extraordinarily potent meth from factory-like "superlabs." Although Mexican meth is not new to the U.S. drug trade, it now accounts for as much as 80 percent of the meth sold here, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. And it is as much as 90 percent pure, a level that offers users a faster, more intense and longer-lasting high. Read more...
Steelers Rookie Ta'amu Accused of DUI
A Pittsburgh Steelers rookie defensive lineman was arrested early Sunday on charges of leading police on a chase while driving drunk and crashing into parked cars, injuring a woman, authorities said. Alameda Ta'amu, 22, of Kent, Wash., was driving a sport utility vehicle the wrong way on Pittsburgh's South Side at about 2:30 a.m., police said. The 6-foot-3, 348-pound Ta'amu fled officers and crashed into four parked cars, injuring a woman, then tried to flee on foot before he was restrained by four officers and arrested, police said. Read more...
October 12, 2012
NYers Charged With Selling Meds on Craigslist
Authorities in New York City have arrested several people on charges they illegally sold prescription medications for recreational use over the Internet. The arrests were announced by the special narcotics prosecutor for New York City, Bridget Brennan. The arrests stemmed from a 10-month investigation involving undercover officers responding to ads placed on Craigslist. Read more...
Rapper Nelly's Tour Bus Busted
A U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas famous for arresting celebrities on drug charges has arrested a person associated with the rapper Nelly. A 2007 Black Prevost Tour Bus belonging to Cornell Iral Haynes, a.k.a Nelly, was traveling eastbound on I-10 when it approached the U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint. Nelly was on board at the time. A search produced a small plastic container containing marijuana, and 36 very small bags containing heroin weighing .64 ounces and a loaded .45 cal pistol. The canine then found a large green duffle bag containing nine vacuum sealed bags containing marijuana, weighing 10.4 pounds. It was found in an outside lower compartment of the bus. Read more...
October 11, 2012
Sammi Kane Kraft Killed in DUI Crash
The actress who played a Little League pitcher in the remake of "The Bad News Bears" died from injuries suffered in an apparent drunk-driving related crash on the Santa Monica Freeway, authorities said. Sammi Kane Kraft, 20, was a passenger in an Audi that rear-ended a tractor-trailer about 1:30 a.m. near the Crenshaw Boulevard exit of the freeway, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. The disabled Audi she was riding in was then struck by a Toyota Scion. The driver, identified as Molly Adams, 21, of Santa Monica was treated for serious injuries at California Medical Center. Read more...
October 10, 2012
QB Casey Pachall Withdraws From TCU
TCU clearly missed suspended quarterback Casey Pachall Saturday in its first defeat of the season, a turnover-marred, 37-23 loss to Iowa State, and help is not on the way. According to coach Gary Patterson, Pachall has withdrawn from the university and plans to enter a drug and alcohol treatment facility on the heels of an Oct. 4 arrest for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. He won't play again this season, and his future beyond 2012 is uncertain. Read more...
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Suspended
Former middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was temporarily suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in an expected procedural move because of his positive test for marijuana in the wake of a unanimous decision loss to world champion Sergio Martinez on Sept. 15 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Kizer said Chavez's disciplinary hearing could take place later this month. Read more...
Redmond O'Neal Completes Yearlong Rehab
It was all smiles for Redmond O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, as a Los Angeles Superior Court congratulated him on completing a yearlong rehab stint but warned him that any slip would send him to prison. O'Neal, who for years has battled drug addiction, looked healthy as he appeared at the Los Angeles Airport courthouse. Judge Keith Schwartz congratulated O'Neal on his progress while extending his probation from 2014 to 2016 Read more...
October 09, 2012
Sheriff Killed in Rollover Crash Was Legally Drunk
A northern Arizona sheriff who lost control of his pickup truck last month and rolled it, killing him, was legally drunk and had a blood-alcohol level of .291, more than three times the state's legal limit, an autopsy report said. Williams, Ariz., on Sept. 18 to meet family members for a camping and hunting trip when the accident occurred. Investigators said Dever was going 62 mph on the unmarked Forest Service road. Read more...
October 08, 2012
Mother Was Drunk When She Shot Kids
Autopsy results show a Port St. John mother was drunk when she shot and killed her four children. Tanya Thomas shot her four children – Pebbles, Jaxs, Jazzlyn and Joel – on May 15 before turning the gun on herself. The Brevard County Medical Examiner's report showed Thomas had a blood alcohol level of .16 percent, which is twice the legal limit for a person to be considered drunk. Read more...
Marijuana Operation Found in Teacher's House
Police said they found a marijuana growing operation inside a Medina teacher and her husband's house in North Ridgeville. Teacher Shannon Briggs, 34, is charged with complicity to cultivation of marijuana and endangering children, North Ridgeville police Sgt. Adam Freas said. Her husband, Matthew Briggs, 35, is charged with cultivation of marijuana and endangering children. Both turned themselves into North Ridgeville police on Sept. 28. Their two young children also live at the house. Read more...
Linda Hogan Arrested on Suspicion of DUI
The ex-wife of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan was pulled over for speeding and then arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Calabasas on 101 Freeway. Linda Hogan, 53, whose real name is Linda Bollea, was arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after seeing her driving erratically on the westbound 101 Freeway. Read more...
October 05, 2012
TCU Quarterback Suspended After DWI Arrest
TCU starting quarterback Casey Pachall has been suspended after being charged with DWI following a traffic stop. Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson announced the discipline. "Casey Pachall has been suspended indefinitely from competition," Patterson said in a statement. "My job as a head coach is to win games, educate our kids and help them with their lives." A Fort Worth police report that stated the junior ran a stop sign and hit a curb before being pulled over. Read more...
October 04, 2012
Meth Lab Found in Child's Bedroom
Halloween decorations and toys in the front yard leave no indication there was anything unusual about a residence on Crump Street in Raceland. Upon first glance, there was nothing odd about the 3-year-old boy's bedroom inside. "It was just a small bedroom full of toys," Raceland Police Chief Donald Sammons said, "what you'd normally see of a small child." However, in the child's closet, investigators found a meth lab. Read more...
Man Charged With Building 2 Major Drug Tunnels
A man identified by prosecutors as an operative for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel was charged with building two major cross-border drug tunnels, according to an unsealed federal indictment. Jose Sanchez Villalobos is accused of building, financing and overseeing the secret passages, which have proliferated along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years as heightened enforcement on land has pushed smugglers underground. Previous prosecutions in connection with the tunnels have named low-ranking truckers and their supervisors who pick up loads of marijuana at warehouses in the United States after they already crossed the border. Read more...
Sam Hurd Pleads Not Guilty
Former NFL receiver Sam Hurd pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new indictment accusing him of trying to obtain cocaine and marijuana while he was out on bond awaiting trial on charges of trying to start a drug ring in the Chicago area. The indictment filed last month is based on allegations that Hurd asked a cousin, Jesse Tyrone Chavful, to buy drugs. Chavful signed a guilty plea agreement Monday to one count of conspiracy to possess five or more kilograms of cocaine -- documents in which Chavful said Hurd contacted him at his T-shirt shop in San Antonio and asked to "get him cocaine and marijuana." Read more...
October 03, 2012
L.A. Votes to Repeal Pot Dispensary Ban
The Los Angeles City Council reversed course and repealed a ban on pot shops that it passed just two months ago to shutter hundreds of medical marijuana storefronts. Council members voted 11-2 to negate its July decision to rid the nation's second-largest city of pot dispensaries. The repeal came after opponents gathered enough signatures to place a referendum on the ballot seeking to undo the ban. Read more...
Sam Hurd's Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty
A cousin of former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd has agreed to plead guilty in connection with allegations that Hurd tried to establish a drug-distribution network, according to documents filed by prosecutors. Jesse Tyrone Chavful signed a plea agreement on one count of conspiracy to possess five or more kilograms of cocaine — 11 pounds or more — with intent to distribute. The plea agreement calls for a minimum of 10 years in prison. Read more...
October 02, 2012
Rapper Lil Scrappy Arrested in Georgia
"Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" cast member Lil Scrappy, whose real name is Darryl Kevin Richardson II, was taken into custody in DeKalb County on Monday, accused of violating his parole. The DeKalb County jail's website confirmed a report that Richardson was booked around 5:38 p.m. and was still in custody just before midnight. The jail listed the probation violation as having occurred on Sept. 4. Read more...
Former Falcon Ray Buchanan Charged With DUI
Former Atlanta Falcon Ray Buchanan was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and speeding on his 41st birthday. Buchanan, a defensive back for the Falcons from 1997-2003, was spotted driving a silver SUV northbound on I-85 at 95 mph shortly before 3 a.m. The posted speed limit is 65 mph in the area, the report states. He blew a .091 percent on the state alcohol breath test. Read more...
Lockyer Affected by Wife's Meth Charges
Only eight months ago, Bill Lockyer was the envy of California politicians. Undefeated in 39 years as assemblyman, senate leader, attorney general and treasurer, the Democrat won 5.4 million votes in his 2010 re-election, more than any other state official in the U.S. Then in February, headlines about his wife, Nadia Lockyer, 41, an Alameda County supervisor began to spill out in the state's newspapers. They chronicled an extramarital affair, an alleged sex tape and drug abuse. Read more...
October 01, 2012
Teacher Accused of Bringing Meth to School
A Texas elementary school teacher is accused of bringing drugs to school and using them to get high before teaching students. Police say Vicki Bruce, a third grade teacher at Reno Elementary school, kept meth wrapped in tin foil in a photo album in her purse. Read more...
September 28, 2012
Amanda Bynes Pleads Not Guilty to Hit-and-Run
Actress Amanda Bynes pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor hit-and-run charges. An attorney entered the plea on behalf of Bynes, who was not required to appear in court. The actress faces a possible sentence of six months in jail for each count if convicted. The charges are related to crashes on April 6 and Aug 4. The file on the April incident was reopened after the August crash. Read more...
September 27, 2012
Nick Fairley Seeks to Avoid DUI Trial
An attorney for Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley asked a judge to approve a pre-trial diversion program instead of putting the player on trial facing charges of drunken-driving and fleeing police. Fairley was charged with driving under the influence and attempting to elude police following a May 27 arrest. His Mobile County District Court trial was set to start Wednesday morning, but attorney Sid Harrell instead filed paperwork requesting Fairley attend an anti-DUI course after stipulating to a first-time DUI. Read more...
September 26, 2012
Doctor Shows Up to Work Drunk, Gets Suspended
A New Hampshire doctor has had his medical license suspended after allegedly showing up to work drunk. Joseph Savage, a physician at the Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., reportedly appeared intoxicated when he arrived, and a blood test revealed Savage a blood alcohol level of .186 percent, officials said. That's more than twice the legal limit for driving. Read more...
Police: John Abraham 'Obviously Intoxicated'
The police officer who arrested Atlanta Falcons defensive end John Abraham said Abraham was "obviously intoxicated" as he refused requests to leave an area taped off by firefighters and police. In a police report, Officer Christopher Blaise of the Atlanta police department said Abraham "had a strong odor of alcoholic beverage coming from him, his speech was extremely slurred, his eyes were bloodshot and he was unsteady on his feet" when he was arrested on two misdemeanor charges of obstruction. Read more...
September 25, 2012
Cocaine Trial Starts for Drug Lab Worker
Jury selection began in federal court for the trial of a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of stealing cocaine from the facility. Deborah Madden, 62, of San Mateo, faces a federal charge of obtaining cocaine by means of fraud, deception or subterfuge in 2009. The charge carries a possible maximum sentence of four years in prison if she is convicted. Read more...
Chris Brown Tests Positive for Marijuana
Los Angeles judge had advice for singer Chris Brown after revealing that the singer had tested positive for marijuana use while in Virginia. "You are not an average person sitting in a living room," Judge Patricia Schnegg said. "You are not only in the public eye, but you are on probation." The judge revealed the marijuana test result but did not take any immediate action. She set another hearing for November to review various probation records. Read more...
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September 24, 2012
Green Day Frontman Heads to Rehab After Meltdown
Billie Joe Armstrong has checked into rehab following a major onstage meltdown. While performing at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas, the Green Day frontman launched into an expletive-laden tirade, then smashed his guitar onstage. Apparently, what set Armstrong off was a monitor that warned the band they had one minute left to play. According to some reports, the Green Day set was shortened to give more time to Usher. Read more...
September 21, 2012
Singer Fiona Apple Arrested on Drug Charge
Grammy-winning singer Fiona Apple spent the night in a Texas jail after being arrested late Wednesday on a felony drug possession charge at a border patrol checkpoint where her tour bus was searched, local officials said. Apple, 35, was taken into custody in Sierra Blanca, the same small west Texas town where authorities previously nabbed singer Willie Nelson, rapper Snoop Dogg and "The Social Network" actor Armie Hammer on drug charges. The singer-songwriter had 4 grams of hashish, a form of cannabis, in her possession. Read more...
September 20, 2012
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Fails Drug Test
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. submitted a positive post-fight urine test for marijuana, the Nevada State Athletic Commission informed the boxer's promoter. Carl Moretti, the vice president of promoter Top Rank, said he received a phone call, alerting him to Chavez's positive test, from Nevada commission executive officer Keith Kizer. Read more...
Bears Sam Hurd Faces 4 More Drug Charges
Federal authorities this week lodged four new drug charges against former Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd, accusations that came the same day a plea deal with the government on the two initial charges apparently fell apart. Hurd now faces two counts of commission of a felony offense while on release and two counts of attempt to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, charges stemming from his arrest last month for violating conditions while out on bond. Read more...
September 19, 2012
Atlanta Falcons Running Back Arrested for DUI
Michael Turner, a star running back for the Atlanta Falcons, has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after being clocked at 97 mph on an Atlanta-area interstate, police said. Turner, 30, nicknamed "The Burner" because of his speed on the football field, was driving a black Audi R8 in a 65-mph zone on northbound Interstate 85 around 4 a.m. Tuesday, the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department said. An officer pulled him over, and after smelling alcohol and investigating further, he charged Turner with DUI and speeding, the Sheriff's Department said. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Pulled Over Again
Amanda Bynes had another run-in with the law when she was pulled over for driving on a suspended license by a Southern California airport. Burbank's Bob Hope Airport spokesman Victor Gill says airport police cited the actress and impounded her car. He said in a statement that "police did cite Amanda Bynes for driving a vehicle with a suspended drivers license this morning." Read more...
September 18, 2012
Kentucky Football Players Face Drug Charges
Kentucky football coach Joker Phillips on Monday confirmed a report by Lexington TV station WLEX that three Wildcats players -- tailback Raymond Sanders, wide receiver Bookie Cobbins and cornerback Marcus Caffey -- were cited by university police last week for possession of marijuana. Sanders and Cobbins were suspended for Saturday's loss to Western Kentucky, while Caffey was already sitting out this season due to academic ineligibility. Read more...
Shaun White Charged With Public Intoxication
Shaun White, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and X-Games star snowboarder, faces charges of vandalism and public intoxication after his arrest at a hotel in Nashville, Tenn. White, 26, reportedly pulled a fire alarm at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel shortly after midnight, forcing the evacuation of all hotel guests. An employee also told police he saw White destroy a hotel phone. Read more...
Randy Travis' Brother Arrested on Drug Charges
Authorities say the younger brother of country music singer Randy Travis is in custody for methamphetamine possession. Union County sheriff's deputies say David "Butter" Traywick of Marshville was arrested along with his wife during a raid at the family farm. Authorities identified the 49-year-old as the brother of the 53-year-old Grammy winning recording artist, who's recently had his own legal problems. Read more...
September 17, 2012
Woman Arrested After 3 Children Found Unconscious
A Jacksonville woman has been charged with aggravated child abuse after police found her and three children unconscious inside an apartment. A sheriff's office report says 30-year-old Liara McGlothan was involuntary committed under Florida's Baker Act statue and arrested Saturday. The three children - ages 3 to 10 - are with child welfare officials. The children told police McGlothan gave them pills "that tasted nasty" to so they "would sleep for a long time." Read more...
Joe Simpson Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
Joe Simpson insists he was not driving drunk last month before his DUI arrest, pleading not guilty in L.A. court. Papa Joe was busted at a DUI checkpoint in Sherman Oaks, CA and blew .12 on the breathalyzer. The L.A. City Attorney subsequently charged Joe with two misdemeanor counts of DUI -- and last month, a judge ordered him not to drink any booze while he remained out on bail. Read more...
September 15, 2012
Dina Lohan Denies Being Drunk on Dr. Phil
Dina Lohan's interview with Dr. Phil is set to air on "The Dr. Phil Show" on Monday, but a clip of the conversation is already drawing criticism of Lohan's erratic behavior. The mother of troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan insists that she was not drunk during the segment. A clip of Lohan's one-on-one interview with Dr. Phil was posted on YouTube Wednesday. In the clip, Lohan appears disoriented and confused about the filming: She cries; she moves around awkwardly in her seat and babbles about things that even seem to confuse Dr. Phil, who at one point asks "What the hell does that mean?" Read more...
September 14, 2012
Jason Kidd Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
New York Knicks point guard Jason Kidd will fight a charge that he was under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his vehicle into a telephone pole over the summer. "He is taking this very, very seriously," attorney Edward Burke Jr. said after Kidd appeared in court at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday. "He wants to get this past him as quickly as possible. The legal process takes some time but he is ready for his season." Kidd was arrested about a week after signing with the Knicks when his vehicle hit a pole in Water Mill, N.Y. Read more...
Sally Struthers Arrested for Drunk Driving
"All in the Family" star Sally Struthers, 65, was arrested in Maine for driving under the influence. The actress was charged with OUI – operating under the influence – which is a misdemeanor and was released on bail. The actress is in Maine for work. She's currently playing Roz in the musical 9 to 5 through Sept. 15. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Smoking, Driving Illegally
Amanda Bynes was driving aimlessly for hours while smoking out of what appears to be a marijuana pipe and tooling around L.A. on a suspended license. The photos -- obtained by TMZ -- show Bynes taking multiple hits out of a pipe that is designed to look like a cigarette lighter in your car. In one picture, you see what appears to be remnants of marijuana in a cup holder. Some of the nugs appear burnt -- as if they had already been smoked. Read more...
September 13, 2012
Judge Allows Fatal Police Crash Blood Sample
A court has ruled that prosecutors can use a blood sample as evidence to prove an Indianapolis police officer was driving drunk when he caused a fatal crash. The Indiana Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a county judge's decision that the blood is inadmissible as evidence that David Bisard was driving drunk because it wasn't drawn according to procedures outlined in state law. Read more...
Actor Michael Madsen Arrested for DUI
Actor Michael Madsen was arrested in Malibu on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said. Madsen -- best known for his work in the movies "Reservoir Dogs," "Donnie Brasco," "Mulholland Falls" and several TV series -- was pulled over on Pacific Coast Highway near John Tyler Drive, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. Deputies responded after a citizen reported a possible drunk driver on Pacific Coast Highway, Whitmore said. Deputies spotted Madsen's vehicle weaving, he said. Read more...
September 12, 2012
Pregnant Mom Died of Heroin Overdose
Deanna Ballman, whose body was found in the back seat of her car in Delaware County the day after she answered a Craigslist ad, died of a heroin overdose, toxicology tests have determined. A family friend said yesterday that she cannot imagine Ballman as a heroin user. She questioned whether Ballman shot the drug into her body or someone else did it. An autopsy found that Ballman, who was 23 and eight months pregnant, had heroin in both her blood and urine and a needle puncture mark on her left thigh that was surrounded by a bruise. Read more...
Wasted Tara Reid Smashes Into Motorbike
Amierican Pie actress Tara Reid ain't exactly well known for her classy behaviour, and on a recent trip to St. Tropez she's done nothing to change people's opinions on her excessive partying. She and a friend crashed into a parked motorbike while charging along a street in glamorous St. Tropez after hitting a bar. The drunken pair landed with their backsides in the air, unable to get back up without help from passing strangers. Read more...
September 11, 2012
Amanda Bynes Pulled Over After License Suspended
Amanda Bynes was pulled over in Los Angeles despite the fact that her driver's license was suspended. The All That actress, 26, was pulled over for driving without her headlights on, law enforcement officials tell the site, before she was given a verbal warning and released. It is unclear if officers ran Bynes' license, seeing as they did not take action against her for driving with a suspended license. Read more...
September 10, 2012
LA's Last Skid Row Dive Bar Faces Gentrification
Unlike that place in Boston where everybody knows your name, the people who run the King Eddy Saloon like to say that once you walk through the front door of Skid Row's last great dive bar, "Nobody gives a ... about your name." And that seems to be just fine with the folks who frequent this aging edifice on the fringes of a 50-square block area of homeless shelters, rundown hotels and warehouses that somehow, at least until now, has managed to avoid a decade of downtown gentrification. Read more...
Police Analyze PCP After 2 Children Killed
Authorities are trying to determine if a contaminated batch of PCP is going around Camden after a child was decapitated and two other children's throats were slashed by people believed to be on the illegal drug. Law enforcement has begun analyzing batches of so-called "wet," a combination of PCP and marijuana, circulating in the southern New Jersey city, a locale that continually ranks as one of the nation's most dangerous. "Is there some type of alteration that's being done that has triggered this?" Police Chief J. Scott Thomson asked in light of the gruesome attacks on children. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration is working with the police department, Thomson said. Read more...
September 07, 2012
Amanda Bynes' Driver's License Suspended
Actress Amanda Bynes can no longer drive the streets of Los Angeles because her driver's license has been suspended, according to records from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Bynes is facing a drunk driving charge after hitting a sheriff's cruiser April 6 in West Hollywood. After two new charges of hit and run filed this week, her driver's license has been suspended, DMV officials said. DMV officials would not state the specific reason for the suspension and it is unclear when it took effect. Read more...
September 06, 2012
Actress Amanda Bynes Faces Hit-and-Run Charges
Actress Amanda Bynes has been charged with two misdemeanor hit-and-run counts, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles city attorney's office said. The 26-year-old star was allegedly involved in incidents on April 10 and August 4. The charges follow an April 6 incident in which Bynes was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after her vehicle allegedly struck an officer's vehicle. She pleaded not guilty in that case, according to reports. Read more...
California Treasurer's Wife Arrested on Drug Charges
Nadia Lockyer, the estranged wife of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and a former Alameda County supervisor, was charged with drug possession and child abuse after police found her with methamphetamine in an Orange County house where she was staying with her 9-year-old son, prosecutors said. The charges are the latest in a series of public substance abuse and relationship struggles faced by Lockyer, 41, who until recently was considered a rising star in Northern California government. Read more...
September 05, 2012
Puddle of Mudd Singer Scantlin Arrested
Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin has been arrested in Texas and charged with public intoxication after being removed from a cross-country flight. Police in Austin say the pilot of a JetBlue flight requested an emergency landing to remove an unruly passenger creating a disturbance. According to police, Scantlin got into an argument with a flight attendant over alcohol. A source with airport security said Scantlin was upset because the flight crew wouldn't sell him booze. Read more...
Michael Jackson 'Drunk and Despondent' Near End
Michael Jackson was drinking heavily, showing signs of paranoia, anxiety and obsessive behaviour and insisted on being called 'Mikey' in the weeks leading up to his death in 2009. The Los Angeles Times obtained 250 emails between the promoters of his comeback tour, AEG, which show the singer's rapid decline. Emails between the show's director, Kenny Ortega, who had known Jackson for 20 years, told AEG executive Randy Phillips that the star was not ready for the tour. Read more...
September 03, 2012
Man Grew Marijuana on Church Property
Police say a western Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with growing marijuana on a church's property. State police arrested 28-year-old Jason Como after the Beloved Disciples Church reported that two suspected marijuana plants were growing on their property in Grove City, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. Read more...
Bobby Brown Speaks Out About His Sobriety
Singer Bobby Brown made sure to let his fans know what's up. The artist—who checked himself into rehab shortly after marrying Alicia Etheredge in Hawaii, and then checked out three weeks later—wanted concertgoers from last night's show in Orlando to know that he's not going down the same troubled road as before. "I'm seven and a half years off of narcotics, 21 days clean of alcohol and I go by the name Bad Ass Bobby Brown," he announced to the crowd. Read more...
Woman Sentenced to 20 Years in DUI Death
A Spartanburg woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a 67-year-old Wellford woman. Prosecutors say 22-year-old Christina Ray Hudson was sentenced after pleading guilty to felony driving under the influence resulting in death and two other DUI-related counts. Solicitor Barry Barnette says Hudson was drunk and on drugs when she sideswiped a car on January 30, then crossed the center line and hit another vehicle head-on. Read more...
September 01, 2012
TV's 'Starsky' to Fight Drug Charge
The actor who played David Starsky in the 1970s police drama "Starsky & Hutch" is fighting a drug charge in Kentucky for what he says is medical marijuana from California. An attorney entered a not guilty plea on Thursday on behalf of 69-year-old Paul Michael Glaser of Venice, Calif. Read more...
August 31, 2012
Titans' WR Britt Suspended One Game For DUI
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt has been suspended for the team's season opener due to his arrest at Fort Campbell earlier this summer for driving under the influence. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down the one-game suspension. Britt was arrested July 20 for driving under the influence when he tried to pass through a security gate at the Fort Campbell Army post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. Read more...
August 30, 2012
Teen Survey Reveals Drug-Infected Schools
According to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens, conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), nearly nine out of 10 (86 percent) high school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day. It's the sixth straight year that 60 percent of high school students said that they attend a drug-infected school, where drugs are used, kept, or sold on school grounds. These students report that about 17 percent of their classmates are involved in these on campus behaviors. Read more...
Rapper Beanie Sigel Arrested
Beanie Sigel, aka Dwight E. Grant, was not driving the car, but after police found "several prescription bottles and a small amount of marijuana" on Gerald Andrews, they decided to search "famous hip hop rapper" Beanie too. The report continues, "A search of the passenger resulted in finding approximately $4,650.00 along with a bottle of codeine syrup with a scratched off label. The passenger also had several prescription pills wrapped in plastic bags located in a cigarette pack." Read more...
Wife Swap Star Arrested for Prostitution
Alicia Guastaferro, who appeared on Wife Swap in 2008, was arrested for prostitution on Monday, Pembroke, N.Y., police said. Per police, the 20-year-old was in the car with 54-year-old James D. Doyle; Doyle was arrested for driving while intoxicated, providing alcohol to a person under 21 and patronizing a prostitute. Read more...
August 29, 2012
Drunk Man Causes Death of 70,000 Chickens
A man wandering around a Delmar, Md., poultry farm in a drunken stupor turned off the power to three chicken houses, causing the deaths of nearly 70,000 chickens, sheriff's officials said. The property owner who made the grisly discovery found the man, identified as Joshua D. Shelton, 21, of Delmar, Md., passed out on the floor of the power control shed, wearing only a T-shirt and boxer shorts. Read more...
Michigan's Toussaint Pleads Guilty to DUI
Michigan running back Fitzgerald Toussaint pleaded guilty to drunken driving while his availability for Saturday night's showdown with No. 2 Alabama remained unknown. Toussaint made a brief appearance in Washtenaw County District Court, pleading guilty to operating a vehicle while visibly impaired after being charged with the more serious operating while intoxicated. He faces up to 93 days in jail when he is sentenced Oct. 23, just after Michigan hosts Michigan State and prior to its game at Nebraska. Read more...
Former NFL Star Sam Hurd Ordered Jailed
A federal judge ordered former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd to be jailed indefinitely Tuesday for failing two drug tests and allegedly buying drugs while already facing charges he tried to distribute marijuana and cocaine. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeff Kaplan indicated that he was less troubled by the drug tests than the allegations that Hurd had tried to buy drugs while he was out on bond. He revoked Hurd's $100,000 bond. After the hearing, Hurd turned toward his family and supporters in the courtroom and said: "Lies." He spoke briefly to a few people watching before he was led out of the courtroom. Read more...
August 28, 2012
San Francisco Archbishop Arrested for DUI
San Francisco's Roman Catholic archbishop-elect has been arrested for driving under the influence in San Diego. Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, who last month was named the next archbishop of San Francisco, was arrested after authorities stopped him at a checkpoint near the San Diego State University campus. Read more...
Troy Aikman's Ex-Wife Arrested in Texas
Troy Aikman's ex-wife was arrested in Collin County, Texas for being drunk in public earlier today. According to the Murphy Police Department, 43-year-old Rhonda Aikman was arrested on August 27 for public intoxication, a low level misdemeanor. Rhonda was hauled to a nearby jail, where bond was set at $269.00. She has since been released. Aikman's car was towed from the scene of the arrest to a nearby impound lot. Read more...
'Walking Dead' Actor Charged With DUI
An actor on the popular Georgia-filmed TV series 'The Walking Dead' faces driving under the influence charges in Peachtree City. Scott Wilson, 70, who plays the role of alcoholic farmer Hershel Greene on the zombie series, was pulled over by Peachtree City police at 2 a.m. on Aug. 18, according to an incident report. A breathalyzer test at the scene returned a result of 0.143, above the legal limit of 0.08. Tests while being booked at the Fayette jail returned results of 0.151 and 0.155, the officer wrote. Read more...
August 27, 2012
Auburn Center Arrested for Public Intoxication
Auburn coach Gene Chizik has suspended center Reese Dismukes following the sophomore's arrest on a public intoxication charge. Chizik says he is "very disappointed in Reese Dismukes for his irresponsible behavior" Friday night. The suspension comes eight days before Tigers open against Clemson in Atlanta's Georgia Dome. Chizik did not say how long Dismukes' suspension would last. The Lee County's sheriff's office said that the starter was released on a $300 bond. It did not offer further details. Read more...
Mark Grace Arrested for Drunken Driving
Former Chicago Cubs standout Mark Grace, a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star selection, was arrested in Arizona for driving under the influence, police said. Police said Grace, who was pulled over in Scottsdale just outside Phoenix, was driving with a suspended license stemming from a prior driving under the influence arrest in the same town in May 2011. Read more...
August 24, 2012
Rodney King Death Ruled Accidental
The death of Rodney King earlier this year was ruled an accidental drowning and there were multiple illegal drugs in his system, police said. Rialto police said the county medical examiner's report showed King had drugs such as PCP, cocaine and marijuana in his system when he died in June, the San Bernardino Sun (bit.ly/OXVE3I) reported. King also had a blood-alcohol level of .06 percent. Read more...
Former Ambassador Ryan Crocker Arrested in DUI
Former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker is facing hit-and-run and intoxicated driving charges in Washington state, authorities said. Trooper Troy Briggs said the 63-year-old Spokane native was arrested Aug. 14 in Spokane Valley. KXLY-TV reported that Crocker struck another car while driving a 2009 Ford Mustang convertible. The driver of the other car was uninjured, the station said. The ticket from the arrest did not specify his blood-alcohol level. Read more...
Armstrong to Be Stripped of Tour Titles
Cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life after refusing to fight drug allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "He will be banned for life and loss of results since Aug. 1, 1998," Annie Skinner, a USADA spokeswoman, said in an email. Armstrong's attorneys sent a letter to USADA yesterday saying he would not seek arbitration of the agency's accusations that he used and trafficked prohibited drugs, allegations the cyclist said were part of an "unconstitutional witch hunt." Read more...
August 23, 2012
Prison Meth Ring Busted in Indiana
A federal indictment says 40 people are facing charges in connection to a methamphetamine ring that was run from at least two Indiana state prisons with the help of corrections officers. An indictment says the officers smuggled cell phones and controlled substances into the prisons. It also says three inmates are among those charged, including the alleged ringleader who's serving time for murder and attempted murder. Read more...
August 22, 2012
Mom Stands Trial in Son's Meth Death
A 21-year-old Ohio woman is standing trial this week in connection with the methamphetamine poisoning death of her toddler son. Heather M. Lerch is one of four defendants charged in the drug-related death last winter of 17-month-old Patrick Nicholas Lerch. Police found the toddler unresponsive when they answered a call to the house Feb. 26. He died later at a hospital. An autopsy said the cause of death was methamphetamine poisoning during a period of neglect and abuse. Read more...
August 21, 2012
No Alcohol, Drugs in Seau's System
No alcohol or illegal drugs were found in Junior Seau's system when he shot and killed himself at his home in May, authorities said. The full autopsy results were released by the San Diego County medical examiner's office in a 16-page report for the former NFL linebacker who was found by his girlfriend with a single gunshot wound to his chest. Seau did have Zolpidem, often found in the sleeping aid Ambien, and traces of the anti-inflammatory drug naproxen in his system when he died that were ''consistent with therapeutic use,'' wrote Deputy Medical Examiner Craig Nelson. Read more...
WVU Nation's No. 1 Party School for 3rd Time
West Virginia University is back on top for the first time in five years, bumping off Ohio University to reclaim its title as the nation's No. 1 party school. WVU hasn't held the top spot since 2007, but the rankings announced Monday by The Princeton Review make it the third time. WVU was also No. 1 in 1997, and it's been among the top 20 party schools 12 times in the 21 years the rankings have been published. Read more...
Michael Pineda Faces DUI Charge
New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was arrested early Monday in Tampa, Fla., on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, a Tampa Police Department spokeswoman said. An arrest report said former Mariner Pineda, 23, who is in Tampa rehabilitating from shoulder surgery, was released on $500 bond. The report said the Nissan SUV Pineda was driving was traveling "at a high rate of speed and weaving from side to side, crossing the lane markers." The arresting officer wrote in the report that Pineda's eyes were red, glassy and watery and that he smelled "the distinct odor of alcoholic beverage coming from his breath." Read more...
August 20, 2012
Woman Suing Casey Anthony Arrested on Alcohol Charge
The woman who is suing Casey Anthony claiming defamation has been charged with giving liquor to a minor. Zenaida Gonzalez was arrested Friday by the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. The Orlando Sentinel reports the 41-year-old was being held at the Orange County Jail. Details of the charge weren't immediately available. Read more...
Joey Kovar's Death Due to Overdose?
MTV reality star Joey Kovar's cause of death is still pending after the autopsy came back inconclusive. Kovar, who was found dead in a woman's apartment at age 29, is believed to have died of a lethal mix of Viagra, alcohol, and cocaine. Sources claim the "Real World: Hollywood" star visited Stacey Achterhof's home in Illinois on Thursday, asking her to take him to a location to score more cocaine. Read more...
August 17, 2012
Ten Arrested in Florida Pill Mill Raids
Seven doctors and three other suspects were arrested on Thursday in Florida's latest strike against "pill mills" and the illegal distribution of widely abused pain-killer drugs such as oxycodone, authorities said. Florida claims to have made enormous strides the last two years against the criminals behind a nationwide epidemic of prescription drug abuse. But the lucrative trade that gave Florida the nickname "Oxy Express" continues to thrive in some areas. Read more...
Bobby Brown in Rehab After DUI Plea Deal
Bobby Brown has checked himself into rehab, his rep said, as part of the plea deal that made his March DUI arrest go away. The R&B singer, 43, checked into a "confidential rehabilitation center" last week, Brown's spokesman said in an email to the Associated Press on Thursday. The plea agreement required 90 days of alcohol treatment, his rep said. Read more...
Jenna Jameson Pleads Guilty to DUI
Former porn actress Jenna Jameson pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Orange County after crashing into a light pole in Westminster. Jameson, 38, whose given name is Jenna Marie Massoli, was taken into custody by Westminster police May 25 after her Range Rover struck the pole. The actress-turned-author must serve three years informal probation, pay $340 in fines, enroll in a first-time offender DUI course, and participate in a victim impact panel. Read more...
August 16, 2012
Too Much Evidence Gets Drug Charges Dropped
A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much evidence: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data that federal authorities say is expensive to maintain. Armando Angulo was indicted in 2007 in a multimillion dollar scheme that involved selling prescription drugs to patients who were never examined or even interviewed by a physician. A federal judge in Iowa dismissed the charge last week at the request of prosecutors, who want to throw out the many records collected over their nine-year investigation to free up space. Read more...
Treatment Center Co-Owner Facing Drug Charges
Federal authorities accuse the co-owner of a Winston-Salem nonprofit substance abuse and mental health treatment center of trafficking large amounts of heroin across the country and from Mexico. An arrest warrant filed in U.S. District Court says 41-year-old James O'Brien Lackard was arrested Aug. 8 for conspiracy to distribute 1 kilogram or more of heroin. Read more...
Man Steals Cops' Pot Because 'It Smelled So Good'
A man in Pennsylvania who was arrested for allegedly stealing a bag of marijuana from a police station says he did so because he couldn't resist the drug's aroma. Police arrested David Allan Thompson, 27, for stealing a bag of pot that had been seized as evidence from the Charleroi Regional police department. Read more...
Jury Convicts D.J. Williams in DUI Trial
Jurors convicted Denver Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams of driving while ability-impaired, casting further doubt on the star tackler's playing time this season. Williams was charged with driving under the influence, but the jury returned the lesser verdict after a trial that lasted less than a day. He also was convicted of driving without headlights, the offense that prompted police to stop him near downtown Denver about 3 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2010. Read more...
August 15, 2012
Nick Fairley's DUI Trial Delayed
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley's court hearing on charges including driving under the influence and attempting to elude police has been pushed back to Sept. 26. Mobile, Ala., County District Judge George Hardesty Jr. granted defense attorney Sid Harrell's request for a delay on Friday. Fairley earlier had a hearing on a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge in Mobile Municipal Court continued until Nov. 27. Read more...
August 14, 2012
Campus Marijuana Use at 'Epidemic' Levels
Parents sending their children off to college for the first time not only have to be concerned about a pervasive drinking culture in place on most campuses, but also about marijuana smoking levels that some school officials are calling epidemic. When you toss in a growing nationwide epidemic of pain pill addiction, parents have good reason for concern for the welfare of their young college students. Read more...
FSU Coach Calls Campus Marijuana Use 'Epidemic'
Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher calls marijuana use on college campuses an "epidemic" and believes colleges should create a better support system to help troubled athletes, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. "Schools must understand every situation where a kid comes from, what his environment is, what's the atmosphere, what kind of trauma did that young man experience as a kid," Fisher said. "Is alcohol, drugs, those kinds of things constantly in his life from the time he remembers." Read more...
Crocs Founder Arrested for Drunk Driving
Taylor Swift is known for calling out former boyfriends in her songs, but a middle-aged millionaire shoe mogul busted for DUI pinned the blame squarely on his "girlfriend" — who he claimed was Swift. A witness called Boulder authorities early Saturday evening after seeing Crocs co-founder George Boedecker passed out at the wheel of a Porsche with the engine running, according to the Denver Post. Boedecker was busted on suspicion of driving under the influence and is free on $500 bond. When confronted by cops, the 51-year-old Boedecker said that it was actually the 22-year-old Swift who was driving the car. Read more...
August 13, 2012
Caravan Calls for End to War on Drugs
A coalition calling for an end to the war on drugs began its monthlong campaign Sunday in San Diego that will take it to more than 20 U.S. cities. More than 200 people gathered at a park on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a movement known as the "Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity" that includes nearly 100 organizations. The effort is led by Mexican peace activist Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed by drug gang members last year. Read more...
FSU Cuts Greg Reid for Weed Possession
Florida State's national championship-contending football program held its annual media day on Sunday, but, sadly, cornerback Greg Reid – a media favorite, a team leader and one of the Seminoles' best players – wasn't there. He was dismissed from the team last week following a traffic arrest in which he was charged with a misdemeanor when police found a small amount of marijuana in his car. Ironically, if Reid had been arrested for DUI with an open bottle of Jack Daniels in the front seat, he'd probably still be on the team. Read more...
August 11, 2012
Mexico's Drug 'Queen' Extradited to US
US authorities extradited one of the most notorious women accused of links to Mexico's drug trade on Thursday, Mexican officials said. Mexican police handed over Sandra Avila Beltran, a 52-year-old known as the "Queen of the Pacific," at an airport in the central city of Toluca. Avila is expected to appear before a federal judge in Florida on charges of criminal conspiracy and drug trafficking. Read more...
Boy, 13, Overdoses on Heroin During Sleepover
A California man will be charged with murder for allegedly shooting up a 13-year-old boy with heroin, killing the child, police said. LAPD Det. Dave Peteque told NBCLosAngeles.com that Brett Cronin, 23, had injected himself with heroin and then administered the narcotic to the teen, who died some time after. The boy, whose name was not released, had gone to spend the night at a friend's house Tuesday night, the homicide detective said. Read more...
Jessica Simpson's Dad Joe Arrested for DUI
The father of Jessica Simpson was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department said. The incident occurred at around 10 p.m. on Aug. 4 when the 54-year-old Simpson was pulled over by police on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and subsequently taken into custody. Simpson was booked and released the following day without having to post bail. Read more...
August 10, 2012
DUI Victim's Parents Sue Strip Club
A drunk driver killed Katherine "Emily" Jones in 2011 but now her family is suing the strip club that served the driver. The driver was drinking at Rick's Cabaret the night of the accident and the family alleges that their policies encouraged over-serving. Entertainers were required to pay a nightly 'house charge' to keep their jobs which was paid by selling drinks to earn 'credits', according to the Lanier Law Firm. Read more...
Rick Springfield Cuts Deal in DUI Case
Rick Springfield cut a deal in his DUI case by pleading no contest to reckless driving in exchange for DUI charges being dropped. Nobody said anything about Springfield allegedly threatening to kill a cop if he had his car towed. TMZ reported Springfield was arrested in May 2011 after police in Malibu pulled him over in his 1963 Corvette Stingray and smelled alcohol. Sources told TMZ Springfield threatened to kill the deputy and his family if he had the car towed. Read more...
Winehouse's Ex in Coma After OD
Just a year after Amy Winehouse died tragically from accidental alcohol poisoning, her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was rushed to a hospital for a suspected drug overdose. Fielder-Civil, 30, had to be placed in a medically induced coma and is currently on life support after suffering multiple organ failure. He was reportedly found choking in bed on Aug. 3 by Sarah Aspin, the mother of his 15-month-old son, Jack, and taken to a nearby hospital in West Yorkshire, England. Read more...
August 09, 2012
Randy Travis Arrested Naked, Charged With DWI
Country singer Randy Travis was charged with driving while intoxicated and threatening law officers after he crashed his Pontiac Trans Am and was found naked and combative at the scene, Texas officials said. Travis walked out of jail the next morning wearing scrubs, no shoes and a University of Texas baseball cap. It was the second Texas arrest this year for Travis, who was cited in February for public intoxication. Read more...
August 08, 2012
Spurrier No Fan of Alcohol Suspensions
Another year, another South Carolina quarterback having trouble with alcohol. Last week, backup Tanner McEvoy was arrested in North Carolina and charged with speeding and underage drinking. Coach Steve Spurrier suspended McEvoy, per team policy, but the suspension didn't last long — less than a week to be exact. "You want him suspended for having a beer and he's underage?" Spurrier told The Post and Courier regarding McEvoy. "How many football players would be playing if they had a beer and they were underage?" Read more...
August 07, 2012
Brigitte Nielsen Drunk in Public Park
Brigitte Nielsen is lucky a Beverly Hills Cop didn't catch her chugging vodka in a Los Angeles park this weekend, as the 49-year-old former model and addict rolled around on the grass clutching a bottle in a bizarre public display. Nielsen, once known for her roles in "Rocky IV" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," was barely recognizable as she seemed to be publicly intoxicated, holding a bottle of Popov vodka and scowling as she smoked cigarettes at a Los Angeles park. Looking disoriented and haggard, she even lay down for a nap at one point, falling asleep in the Studio City park in broad daylight. The former supermodel and symbol of the 1980s has publicly battled addiction for many years, finding sobriety for a time while appearing on VH1's 'Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew' Read more...
August 06, 2012
Pharmacy Tech Faces Drug Charges
A pharmacy technician is facing 13 drug charges after a search of her vehicle uncovered marijuana and more than 2,300 prescription pills that included Oxycontin, Hydrocodone and Adderall, authorities said. Lake County Sheriff's police responded to a call of a reckless driver and located a black Toyota matching the description parked at a McDonald's lot near Routes 12 and 120 in Volo, according to a news release from the Lake County Sheriff's office. Read more...
TCU Won't Discipline Quarterback
TCU coach Gary Patterson says starting quarterback Casey Pachall will not face team discipline after the junior admitted to police in February that he used marijuana and failed a drug test. Patterson said Pachall has completed drug and alcohol counseling mandated by the university, and no suspension will be handed down. "One thing I've liked is that he's been honest," Patterson said. "His dad is a retired highway patrolman. One thing he's always been told to do is to be honest." Read more...
Drunk Kris Jenner Flashes Cleavage
Kris Jenner tagged along with daughter Khloe Kardashian and Nicole Richie for a Mexican dinner -- and plenty of margaritas -- at Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks, Calif.. Presumably a few margaritas later, Jenner (mom to Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob Kardashian plus Kylie and Kendall Jenner, and grandmother to Mason and Penelope Disick) was feeling, er, spicy, posting another Instagram photo of herself: Still wearing that sombrero, Bruce Jenner's wife displays her ample cleavage with a saucy look on her face. Read more...
August 03, 2012
Macaulay Culkin's Addiction 'Fictious' Rep Says
Macaulay Culkin is no heroin addict, according to his rep, no matter how loud a tabloid headline screams that rumor. A report that Culkin is addicted to heroin and more "is not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious," his publicist told various outlets Wednesday, reacting to a National Enquirer cover story that loudly predicts the"Home Alone" actor's death within six months. Read more...
Actress Tatum O'Neal Back in Rehab
Tatum O'Neal is back... in rehab, that is. The Irish-American actress voluntarily checked herself into rehab in February after relapsing into cocaine. But now, the 48-year-old actress who came to fame in the early 1970s as the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award, is in a different facility for the same sad addiction. Read more...
August 02, 2012
Ohio State RB Dunn Dodges Drug Charges
Ohio State freshman running back Bri'onte Dunn was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and two moving violations, but avoided possible charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia stemming from a traffic stop Saturday in Alliance, Ohio. A police report states that Dunn nearly ran a flashing red light, drove through a crosswalk and narrowly missed striking a patrol car. He and a passenger were in possession of a wooden pipe and marijuana was found on the seat cushions, floorboard and in the door pocket, according to the report. Read more...
August 01, 2012
'Plain Jane Bandit' Strikes Another Bank
The "Plain Jane Bandit" strikes again. For the seventh time this month, a woman who fits the description of the bank robbery suspect known as the "Plain Jane Bandit" reportedly struck another Southern California location Monday afternoon. It is unclear if she made off with any money, but her method appears to be consistent with other heists. Read more...
S. Carolina's Tanner McEvoy Arrested
South Carolina reserve quarterback Tanner McEvoy was arrested in North Carolina and charged with speeding and driving after consuming while under age 21. The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office said the 19-year-old McEvoy was arrested and released Sunday on $250 bond for the two charges. North Carolina law bans drivers under 21 from operating a motor vehicle if they have any alcohol in their bloodstream. The charge is classified as a misdemeanor. Read more...
Jon Jones Sentenced for DWI
A Binghamton City (N.Y.) Court judge revoked the driver's license of UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones for six months and fined him $1,000 Tuesday during sentencing on DWI charges. Any vehicle that Jones operates thereafter must be equipped with an interlock device. In addition, Jones has been placed on conditional discharge. As a result, he must avoid all legal violations for one year. Judge Daniel L. Seiden also ordered Jones to complete a victim impact panel within 90 days. Jones must also pay NYSEG $6,563.62 for damaging a utility pole after crashing into it with his 2012 Bentley on May 19. Read more...
July 31, 2012
Drunk Woman Tries to Break Into Jail
A woman in southwest Ohio has been arrested for trying to sneak into a county jail and telling authorities to arrest her. Deputies with the Butler County Sheriff's Office arrested 36-year-old Tiffany R. Hurd when she was caught trying to climb over a barbed-wire fence at the rear of the Butler County Jail in Hamilton, near Cincinnati. Deputies then repeatedly asked Hurd to leave, but she refused and attempted to climb the fence again. Deputies say she was intoxicated. Read more...
Pot Charges Dropped Against UGA Basketball Player
Georgia basketball player Donte Williams told media gathered at Stegeman Coliseum on Monday that the marijuana charges leveled against him in May have been dismissed and vehemently proclaimed he does not do drugs. Reporters came for a press conference to advance the Bulldogs' upcoming 10-day trip to Italy for three exhibition games. But before that event got underway, Williams took a seat next head coach Mark Fox at a table on a podium in the Stegeman interview room and asked to make a statement. Following is what Williams' said: Read more...
Ohio State RB Bri'onte Dunn Charged
Ohio State's running back depth could be about to take another hit. Freshman Bri'onte Dunn was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop Saturday night in Alliance, Ohio. According to police, Dunn nearly hit a patrol car before he was pulled over. Then officers allegedly found a pipe and small amounts of marijuana in the car. Dunn received a citation and was not taken to jail. Read more...
July 30, 2012
Judge Gives North Dakota Drunk Drivers Choice
Three drunken driving offenders were given a choice -- spend time in the Cass County jail, or attend the funeral of a West Fargo family that was killed by a drunken driver. All three went to the funeral, and one offender wrote a letter to the Fargo municipal judge about it. Allan Bakkerud says the funeral made him realize how a drunken driver could "change so many lives in a split second." Read more...
Snoop Dogg Banned From Norway For 2 Years
A lawyer representing Snoop Dogg says the American rapper has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount of marijuana last month. Holger Hagesaeter, the rapper's legal representative in Norway, said his client "can live with the decision" and has no immediate plans to appeal it. Snoop Dogg, whose name is Calvin Broadus, was on his way to a music festival in southern Norway in June when sniffer dogs detected eight grams of marijuana in his luggage. He was also carrying more cash than is legally allowed and was fined 52,000 kroner ($8,600) after admitting to the two offenses, the lawyer said. Read more...
July 27, 2012
Kerry Kennedy's Ambien Blood Test Results
Kerry Kennedy had a generic version of the potent prescription sleep aid Ambien in her system after she struck a tractor-trailer while driving erratically on a Westchester County highway this month, court papers filed on Wednesday said. Final toxicology results showed that no other drugs or alcohol were in Ms. Kennedy's blood or urine, a deposition submitted to the court by prosecutors said. Read more...
Raids on Synthetic Drug Labs Lead to 90 Arrests
In the first-ever nationwide crackdown on the synthetic drug industry, law enforcement officers arrested more than 90 people, seized $36 million in cash and more than 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Operation Log Jam, a joint effort between the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal and local agencies, was conducted in more than 90 cities spanning 30 states, DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said at a news conference. Read more...
July 26, 2012
Legal Ways to Get High Remain
People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can't seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals that mimic the dangerous effects of cocaine, amphetamines and other illegal stimulants. The drugs are often sold at small, independent stores in misleading packaging that suggests common household items like bath salts, incense and plant food. But the substances inside are powerful, mind-altering drugs that have been linked to bizarre and violent behavior across the country. Read more...
Jenna Jameson Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
Former porn actress Jenna Jameson pleaded not guilty to charges of driving under the influence in Orange County after wrapping her car around a light pole in Westminster. Jameson, 38, whose real name is Jenna Marie Massoli, was taken into custody by Westminster police May 25 after her Range Rover struck the pole. The actress was charged Monday with three misdemeanor counts, including driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs, having a blood-alcohol level over the state legal limit and driving on a suspended license. Read more...
July 25, 2012
Justin Blackmon pleads guilty to DUI
Jacksonville Jaguars first-round draft pick Justin Blackmon pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Oklahoma last month and was given a sentence that includes no jail time for the former Oklahoma State star. "He is mortified by this," defense attorney Cheryl Ramsey said shortly after she withdrew Blackmon's previous not guilty plea to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and entered the guilty plea as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Blackmon did not attend the brief hearing in Payne County District Court. Police arrested Blackmon during a traffic stop in Stillwater on June 3 after a breath test allegedly showed his blood-alcohol content to be three times the legal limit. Read more...
Michigan Suspends Fitzgerald Toussaint After DUI
Michigan tailback Fitz Toussaint is indefinitely suspended from the football team after he was arrested Saturday on charges of operating a vehicle while impaired. Toussaint was arrested by a Saline police officer on a joint drunk-driving detail at approximately 11:45 p.m. in downtown Ann Arbor. Driving a white Ford F150, he was stopped for "disregarding" a red traffic light at S. Forest and Washtenaw roads, and a breathalyzer showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.12. Read more...
July 24, 2012
Lions Release Aaron Berry After Arrests
Detroit Lions cornerback Aaron Berry was arrested for the second time in two months and has been released by the team. Over the weekend, Berry was arrested in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on three charges of simple assault. Details of the incident were not reported, but Berry apparently brandished a weapon during the incident. This most recent incident followed Berry's DUI arrest last month also in the central Pennsylvania region. Read more...
3 Doors Down Bassist Todd Harrell Popped for DUI
Doors Down's Todd Harrell could soon be standing in front of a door to a courthouse. The 40-year-old bassist was arrested on suspicion of DUI after allegedly crashing into another vehicle in southern Mississippi. According to local police, shortly after 7 a.m. the Time of My Life rocker was busted by cops in D'Iberville after slamming his black Cadillac into the rear of a silver Toyota truck, causing "heavy damage" to both vehicles. Read more...
Raiders Wide Receiver Enters Plea to DUI
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor DUI charge in connection with his arrest on the Bay Bridge in April. Heyward-Bey, 25, was pulled over at about 2 a.m. on April 7 on the lower deck of the bridge on his way back to the East Bay from a nightclub in San Francisco, his attorney Ivan Golde said. He agreed to plead no contest in San Francisco Superior Court to the misdemeanor charge this morning in exchange for a sentence of three years' probation, three months of DUI classes and various fines and fees. Read more...
July 20, 2012
Jamaican DJ Pleads Guilty to Skipping US Trial
A popular Jamaican DJ, who admitted he left the United States 10 years ago before his scheduled trial on drug charges, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of failure to appear in court. Glendale Goshia Gordon, who performs under the name Busy Signal, could face between 12 to 18 months in prison and a fine of $3,000 to $30,000, under sentencing guideline recommendations. Read more...
Rams DE Robert Quinn Arrested on DWI Charges
NFL players have been making headlines recently and not for the right reasons. St. Louis Rams DE Robert Quinn has joined that list after it was reported that he was arrested on July 10 at 6:44 a.m., accused of driving while intoxicated in Florissant, Mo. He posted bond and was released later that night, according to KSDK.com. In addition to the drunken-driving charge, Quinn is charged with failure to exercise a high degree of care and with having no insurance. Read more...
July 19, 2012
High School Kid, 17, Busted in $3M Pot Ring
A 17-year-old high school senior was the kingpin of a $3 million high school marijuana ring in southwestern Ohio, a grand jury alleges. Tyler Pagenstecher of Mason, an upscale Cincinnati suburb, faces two felony counts of drug trafficking as a juvenile. Seven adults were also indicted in the scheme that allegedly raked in $20,000 in pot sales each month. Read more...
Kerry Kennedy Says Car Accident Caused by Seizure
Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of driving while impaired by drugs and said her accident was caused by a "complex partial seizure." Kerry Kennedy, 52, was found slumped behind the wheel of a white Lexus of Friday morning in the Westchester County town of North Castle an hour's drive north of New York City. A witness said she had hit a tractor trailer and left the scene. Read more...
Lions' Berry to Enter Diversionary Program
Lions cornerback Aaron Berry will enter a diversionary program for first-time offenders following his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol and other charges last month. Berry was charged with DUI, two counts of accidents involving unattended vehicles and two counts of failure to stop and give information after a witness reported seeing his BMW hit two parked cars June 23 in his native Harrisburg. Read more...
July 18, 2012
Jesse Jackson Jr. in Rehab for 'Mood Disorder'
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s representatives have made vague comments about the Congressman's condition since he disappeared a month ago but several sources who say they are close to the family claim Jackson is battling alcoholism. A source who identified as a family friend told the local NBC News affiliate in Chicago that the congressman's problems run much deeper. The anonymous source says Jackson "has severe clinical depression, a drinking problem or a problem with alcohol with treatment at a facility in Arizona." Read more...
July 17, 2012
Trooper Had Blood Alcohol Level of .182
An on-duty Pennsylvania State Police trooper had a blood alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit when he was found behind the wheel of his patrol car last week, according to court documents. Trooper Kevin Wackley, a 19-year veteran of the force, was found to have a blood alcohol level of .182 when he was administered a breath test at the Hamburg barracks in Tilden Twp., Berks Co., on July 12, according to court documents. The test was conducted about 6-1/2 hours into Wackley's scheduled shift. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan's DUI Judges Disciplined
Two veteran Los Angeles County judges were disciplined by a state oversight panel for their handling of the high-profile DUI case of actress Lindsay Lohan, according to documents obtained by The Times. The documents revealed that L.A. County Superior Court judges Marsha Revel and Elden Fox at the Beverly Hills courthouse were reproached by the state's Commission on Judicial Performance for two incidents that occurred during a period of intense media attention in 2010, culminating in the star's two-week term behind bars. Read more...
Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch Getes Drug Arrest
Seahawks running back and Cal alum Marshawn Lynch was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in Oakland over the weekend, authorities said. Lynch, 26, was stopped by the California Highway Patrol in East Oakland, said Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. Ray Kelly. Read more...
July 16, 2012
Mary Kennedy Reburied Away From Kennedy Family
Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members. Frank Maki, superintendent of the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery near Hyannisport, said Robert Kennedy's estranged wife was exhumed earlier this month. She was first buried on May 19 near her husband's aunt and uncle, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver. Robert Kennedy Jr. reportedly asked that Mary Kennedy be reburied on a hilltop surrounded by empty plots he's negotiating to buy. Read more...
Knicks' Jason Kidd Arrested on DWI Charges
Jason Kidd made surprising headlines with his decision to join the New York Knicks as a free agent. Now he's making surprising headlines for doing the wrong things off the court. The 10-time All-Star point guard, who on Thursday signed his three-year, $9.5 million contract with the Knicks, was arrested for alleged drunken driving, according to police in Southampton Town (N.Y.). Kidd, 39, was arraigned on a misdemeanor DWI charge and released. Read more...
July 14, 2012
Student in Carjacking Spree: 'I Was Drugged'
A college student accused of an erratic crime spree in North Dallas this week apologized to the victims in a jailhouse interview. nvestigators say Eric Keng carjacked someone, tried to rob a business and led police on a chase in a stolen vehicle. "I apologize for anything that I did to anyone. It wasn't intentional. I don't know what happened," Keng told NBCDFW.com in an exclusive interview. Read more...
Kerry Kennedy Arrested for DUI
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy, was arrested for driving while impaired by drugs after she accidentally struck a tractor-trailer and fled, police said. Kennedy is the seventh of 11 children of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. State police said she was found behind the wheel of her disabled vehicle on the side of a road in Westchester, just north of New York City. Authorities say 911 callers reported the car was driving erratically on Interstate 684 and collided with a tractor-trailer in the town of North Castle. The car was damaged and had a flat tire, police said. Read more...
July 12, 2012
Authorities Discover 2 Sophisticated Border Tunnels
Two drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest signs that cartels are building sophisticated passages to escape heightened surveillance on land. Both tunnels were at least 150 yards long. One began under a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana but was unfinished and didn't cross the border into San Diego. The Mexican army found the tunnel. Read more...
Sean O'Neill Sentenced for DUI Violation
Sean Owen O'Neill Jr., who in 2006 shot and killed his best friend in drunken horseplay but who had until now never seen the inside of a jail cell, was sentenced to 60 days to six months in Chester County Prison for a Thanksgiving Day driving under the influence charge. The sentence, imposed by Common Pleas Court Judge William P. Mahon came after an hour-long sentencing hearing that touched on the six year old fatal shooting and the devastation that alcohol had wrought on O'Neill's family, was an unusually severe sentence for a first-DUI offender. Most such defendants in the county are either given probation or 72 hours behind bars. Read more...
Man Admits Driving Drunk to AA Meeting
A 30-year-old central New York man admits he was drunk when he hit a parked pickup truck on his way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Nathaniel Snyder of Sherrill pleaded guilty to a felony count of aggravated driving while intoxicated in Madison County Court. Police say his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit when he was arrested March 19. Read more...
FSU's Reid Arrested After Traffic Stop
The turbulent career of Florida State cornerback Greg Reid took another downturn following his arrest on charges of driving with a suspended license, possession of marijuana and a seat belt violation. According to the Georgia State Patrol, Reid was arrested during a traffic stop in Lowndes County, just south of his hometown of Valdosta, Ga. Reid was pulled over on suspicion of window tint and seat belt violations. "During an inventory of the vehicle, a suspected marijuana joint was located in a cup holder," the State Patrol said. Read more...
July 11, 2012
Celebrity Chef Cat Cora Gets a DUI
Cat Cora is under some intense heat—and it ain't coming from the kitchen. The celebrity chef and Around the World in 80 Plates host was popped for DUI in June after rear-ending another vehicle in Santa Barbara and subsequently failing a sobriety test. According to local law-enforcement officials, the 45-year-old got into the fender-bender shortly after 6 p.m. on June 17, during which the driver of the other vehicle alerted an officer that he believed Cora might have been drinking. Read more...
July 10, 2012
Nugent Drummer Charged With Golf Cart Theft, DUI
A drummer for classic rocker Ted Nugent faces several charges after police in Bangor, Maine, say he was seen driving drunk in a golf cart stolen from a concert venue. Officers working at Nugent's concert were told that 55-year-old Mick Brown was intoxicated, had stolen the cart and was driving it recklessly on a foot path. Police say when officers tried to stop the cart, Brown sped past them and shoved a security officer. Two security officers then removed Brown from the cart, and he was arrested. Read more...
July 09, 2012
DWI Leads to Man's Arrest in Cold Case Killing
A Missouri man forced to provide a DNA sample after pleading guilty in a drunken driving case has been charged in a 23-year-old killing. Prosecutors announced that Guy Shannon Jr., 43, of Odessa, faces charges of first-degree murder and forcible rape. Shannon is accused of strangling and assaulting Marcia Lynn Davis, 20, of Independence, in March 1989. Davis was last seen leaving the Jackson County Jail after visiting a friend. A homeless person found her partially clad body in an abandoned apartment building the next day, according to a probable cause statement filed in the case. Read more...
States Fight 'Tourists' Trafficking Painkillers
As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief. After a cursory examination at the clinic in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dixon left with a prescription for 180 doses of OxyContin — and a plan to return to his Ohio home and sell them on the street. The trips made by Dixon and others like him — authorities dub them "prescription" or "drug" tourists — have complicated the challenges investigators face trying to stem the flow of painkillers. Read more...
July 07, 2012
Rock Singer Arrested for Crashing Into Parked Cars
A suspected drunken driver has been taken into custody after damaging multiple parked cars during a late night hit and run rampage. Police say homeowners on the 12200 block of Hillslope Street noticed a car racing around the neighborhood and began calling 911. Witnesses say the driver of the SUV, identified as Karim George Chmielinski, was continuously crashing into the cars and fleeing as he drove around the neighborhood. Read more...
No Alcohol Found in Mary Kennedy's System
Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had no traces of alcohol in her system when she took her own life in May, according to a toxicology report released Friday by the Westchester County medical examiner. Kennedy, who had been battling depression, was found dead May 16 in Bedford, New York, a small town north of New York City where she lived. The medical examiner's office determined Kennedy died as a result of asphyxiation due to hanging. She was 52. Read more...
July 06, 2012
New Mom Smokes Bath Salts in Hospital
A new mother has been charged with smoking the powerful synthetic stimulant known as bath salts two days after she gave birth, while still in the maternity ward of a central Pennsylvania hospital. Online court records don't list an attorney for 31-year-old Carla Murphy, of Altoona, who is charged with aggravated assault and various drug counts for allegedly stripping naked and fighting with staff at the Altoona Regional Hospital on June 17. She faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 8. Read more...
Weston Gosa Busted for Drugged Driving
A young father from MTV's "16 & Pregnant" is behind bars. Weston Gosa was arrested for an alleged DUI on the Fourth of July, but he wasn't driving drunk, police say. Gosa, 23, who appeared in Season 1 of "16 & Pregnant," crashed his car on a road not far from his home in rural Floyd County, Ga., the local Rome News-Tribune reports. Cops found the prescription drugs Xanax and Lorcet, along with a pipe with residue, in Gosa's wrecked vehicle, a police report states. Read more...
July 04, 2012
Deena Cortese Avoids Criminal Charge
"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese got a costly reminder of a lesson parents tell their children: Make sure you stay on the sidewalk. And just to underscore that point, she got a talking-to from her mother outside municipal court, where Cortese had just pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. Read more...
Suspect High on Bath Salts Threatened to Eat People
An Atlanta man was arrested after stripping down to his underwear at a local driving range and threatening to eat people after ingesting bath salts, police said. Witnesses said that Karl Laventure came out of the woods at the Atlanta Golf Center and began screaming about religion, rapper Tupac Shakur and cannibalism. Read more...
Darrin Moore Suspended After DWI
Texas Tech has suspended wide receiver Darrin Moore from the football team after his April arrest on a drunken-driving charge. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports police reports show Moore was arrested April 13 after a Lubbock police officer observed him driving erratically. He remains free on $1,000 bond. Read more...
July 03, 2012
Bucs Cornerback Wright Arrested for DUI
Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Eric Wright was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday for investigation of driving under the influence after police said he was involved in a crash near Staples Center. The incident occurred several blocks away from the Staples Center when the Mercedes SLS that Wright was driving rear-ended a pickup truck. Wright, who wasn't injured, refused to take sobriety tests, authorities said. He was booked for investigation of felony DUI and bail was set at $100,000.. Read more...
July 02, 2012
Michigan Cracks Down on Synthetic Marijuana
Michigan State Police will begin removing so-called synthetic marijuana from store shelves if businesses haven't acted. Laws recently signed by Gov. Rick Snyder target synthetic cannabinoids and products sometimes referred to as bath salts. Michigan State Police has the authority to remove them from stores starting today if they're still being sold. Read more...
Doped Wrestler Thought She Quit in Time
The American wrestler Stephany Lee, who qualified for the Olympic team but will miss the London Games after testing positive for marijuana, said that she was a regular user of the drug but that she thought she stopped smoking in time to provide a clean urine sample at the Olympic trials in April. She said that she quit using marijuana two weeks before the trials — "the longest I ever quit before a competition," she said — and that she was surprised to learn of the result from the United States Anti-Doping Agency several weeks later. Read more...
June 30, 2012
UGA Tailback Crowell Dismissed Following Arrest
Georgia tailback Isaiah Crowell was dismissed from the team Friday by coach Mark Richt after the sophomore was arrested on felony weapons charges. Police found a gun in Crowell's vehicle early Friday morning. Georgia announced the dismissal Friday afternoon. Richt's short statement in the announcement did not mention Crowell. "We have a dedicated and committed group of men who are working hard to prepare for the coming season," Richt said. "Our total focus will be directed toward the team and this effort." Read more...
Wrestler Off Olympic Team for Positive Drug Test
Wrestler Stephany Lee has tested positive for marijuana and will not be a part of the U.S. Olympic team in London. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Thursday night that she has been banned for one year after testing positive for tetrahydrocannabinol acid, a marijuana metabolite, in a sample collected April 21 at the Olympic trials in Iowa City, Iowa. Under the rules of USA Wrestling, the sport's national governing body, Lee's replacement will be the next highest-ranked athlete in the 158.5-pound weight class. Read more...
June 29, 2012
Snoop Dogg Busted for Marijuana in Norway
Marijuana allegedly put the drug-sniffing dogs on Snoop Dogg's tail at the Oslo, Norway, airport, but what was in his wallet ultimately cost him more than that wayward weed. Snoop, real name Calvin Broadus, was allegedly carrying about eight grams of pot as he entered the country. The bigger problem, or at least the more expensive one, came from the amount of allegedly undeclared cash Snoop was hauling with him. Read more...
June 28, 2012
Former Meth Labs a Nightmare for Homebuyers
Soon after John Bates and his wife moved into their first home, the euphoria of realizing the American Dream gave way to a nightmare of foul odors, unexplained illnesses and spiraling costs. A standard home inspection had revealed no problems with the home, in Suquamish, Wash., near Seattle. Bates, a Navy veteran and pipe fitter, and wife Jessie were thrilled to get the home on a 2-acre lot for $235,000, and they moved in with their then-7-year old son, Tyler, in March 2007. But soon after, the boy developed breathing problems, John Bates became "perpetually sick" and Jessie Bates developed strange skin rashes. Read more...
Chicago OKs Tickets for Small Amounts of Marijuana
The Chicago City Council has approved a measure that would allow police officers to ticket people found with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them. Aldermen voted 43-3 in favor of the ordinance, under which anyone in possession of 15 grams of marijuana — roughly the equivalent of 15 marijuana cigarettes — faces a fine between $250 and $500. Read more...
Only Marijuana Found in Face-Chewer's Body
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner found only marijuana in the body of the man who was fatally shot while chewing a homeless man's face over Memorial Day weekend. The medical examiner's office said that 31-year-old Rudy Eugene's toxicology was complete. The department also ruled out common drugs found in the street drugs called bath salts, which authorities had initially speculated were the cause of the brutal attack on Ronald Poppo. Read more...
Nick Fairley to Plead Not Guilty in DUI Case
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley will plead not guilty Thursday in Mobile, Ala., to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence and attempting to elude police, his lawyer told reporters. The lawyer, Sid Harrell, said it's too early to know if a plea deal can be reached. State troopers say Fairley was driving his Cadillac Escalade at 100 mph on Interstate 10 early on May 27. Fairley also was cited for reckless driving, no proof of insurance and having an open container of alcohol. Read more...
June 27, 2012
Man Arrested for Stealing Bath Salts
Missouri police arrested a man they say stole bath salts from a bait and tackle shop after a seven-hour manhunt that left residents on edge. "I was kind of freaked especially since it was just me and my mom at home," Makayla Sasse said. "First thing she was like, let's get the guns." Police did not release the name of the man but listed his age at 35. When police apprehended the suspect, the man told the station that it's the economy that makes "a good man do bad things." Read more...
Doctor Ordered to Trial in 3 Drug Deaths
A doctor accused of prescribing pain killers to three young men who died was ordered to stand trial for second-degree murder in the overdose deaths. Dr. Hsui-Ying "Lisa" Tseng is one of only a handful of doctors nationwide to be charged with murder related to prescription drugs. The decision by Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar de Longoria to send Tseng to trial came after a three-week preliminary hearing where she was portrayed as the go-to doctor for people seeking drugs. Read more...
Lions Cornerback Aaron Berry Gets DUI
Detroit Lions cornerback Aaron Berry apologized for his weekend arrest in Harrisburg, Pa. He was charged with driving under the influence, two counts of accidents involving unattended vehicles and two counts of failure to stop and render aid leaving the scene of an accident, according to Harrisburg Police Cpl. Atah Akakpo-Martin. He drove his vehicle into parked cars and attempted to flee the scene. All of the charges are misdemeanors. Read more...
June 26, 2012
Victim's Mother Billed for Fatal DUI Cleanup
A grieving mother told a South Carolina court she was slapped with several bills, including one to clean the street, after her son was killed by a drunk driver last year. Loretta Robinson spoke of the emotional and financial toll her son Justin Walker's death had on her as the driver Anna Gonzales, who is an illegal immigrant, pled guilty in the case. Read more...
Former Falcon Jamal Anderson Arrested for DUI
Police arrested former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson for drunken driving, according to a DeKalb County police report. Anderson, 39, was driving so slow he was impeding traffic, according to DeKalb police. He was pulled over at 4:30 a.m. on Chamblee Tucker Road near I-85 and taken to DeKalb County Jail, where he was released later Sunday after posting bond. The full police report is not yet available. Read more...
Jenna Jameson Officially Charged With DUI
Porn legend Jenna Jameson has officially been charged with DUI after smashing her car into a light pole last month in Orange County. Jameson was arrested after the single-car accident early in the morning on May 25. The site says she showed signs of intoxication, took a field sobriety test, and was subsequently busted on suspicion of DUI. According to law enforcement officials, Jameson had a blood alcohol percent of .13 and had two prescription drugs in her system at the time of her arrest. The drugs have been identified as zolpidem (Ambien) and buprenorphine (Suboxone). Read more...
June 25, 2012
Girl, 16, Injected 3 Times With Meth
Police say a Blaine man injected a 16-year-old girl with methamphetamine three times because he said she was "constantly bugging him" to let her use the drug. 21-year-old David Lee Svege was charged this week with distributing meth to a person younger than 18. The charges stemming from the meth incident came after Svege was arrested at a local Wal-Mart trying to steal DVD players. Read more...
Auburn Quarterback Arrested as Public Drunk
Auburn freshman quarterback Zeke Pike was arrested and charged with public intoxication. He was released on $300 bond. The 19-year old Pike was an early enrollee at Auburn, taking part in spring practice and in the A-Day scrimmage, where he was 7-of-9 passing for 92 yards. Read more...
June 23, 2012
Woman Drives Car Into Golf Course Sand Trap
Patricia Maione drove her car into a sand trap and then tried to convince officers that her GPS told her to do it. Maione told police that the GPS told her to turn left which she did. That left turn took her through a cornfield in Northbridge Massachusetts and then onto the golf course. She drove through Whitinsville Golf Club until her car got stuck in the sand trap. Police weren't buying her story of the faulty GPS. Read more...
June 22, 2012
Former Steeler Haggan Reports to Jail
Former Steelers linebacker Clark Haggans reported to the Westmoreland County Prison Wednesday to serve time for a DUI conviction stemming from an incident in Arizona. Haggans, 35, who now plays for the Arizona Cardinals, will serve 48 hours in prison and then do seven days of work release, Westmoreland County Sheriff Jon Held said. Read more...
June 21, 2012
3-Year-Old Found Wandering in Street as Mom Partied
An Orlando-area mom was arrested after her three-year-old son was found wandering the streets after she allegedly left him home alone to go party. The 24-year-old Nicole Finnell's son Daniel was found by a passer-by barefoot and running around in the street. Police say Finnell left her sleeping son in her home alone with the door unlocked and went to a bar and a house party. Read more...
School Bus Driver Blows Three Times Legal Limit
A school bus driver in northern Massachusetts blew more than three times the legal limit after crashing his bus into a smaller one Monday afternoon. MyFoxBoston reports 37-year-old Erik K. Paulik was charged with operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor, child endangerment while operating under the influence, and failure to slow down while approaching an intersection after the crash. Paulik was given a field sobriety test and was found to have a blood alcohol level of .27, more than three times the legal limit. Read more...
Brien Taylor Remains in Custody
Former New York Yankees pitching prospect Brien Taylor, indicted earlier this month in federal court on three counts of distributing crack cocaine, was ordered held in custody during a detention hearing. Taylor, who had been facing state charges, was indicted on June 5 in the U.S. Eastern District Court in North Carolina and transferred into federal custody. Taylor, 40, was arrested on March 1. Police said he sold large quantities of cocaine and crack cocaine to an undercover narcotics agent over a span of several months. Read more...
June 20, 2012
Man Was Making Meth Inside Walmart, Police Say
An Ohio man was arrested for allegedly making methamphetamine inside a Walmart store in the town of Mentor. Mentor Police Lt. Ken Zbiegien said that James Richardson, 37, was spotted by store security placing ingredients in his shopping cart that are commonly used in the production of meth, the report said. Read more...
Parents Planted Drugs on School Volunteer
A California couple has been arrested on suspicion of planting drugs in the car of an elementary school parent volunteer they disliked. Orange County prosecutors say Kent and Jill Easter were arrested and each was charged with two counts of felony conspiracy and false imprisonment. The Easters are both attorneys and live in Irvine. Read more...
Former Redskin Rickie Harris Convicted of DWI
A Fairfax County jury convicted a former Redskins player of felony drunk driving in a trial that played out against a backdrop of increasing concerns about head injuries in sports. Rickie Harris, 69, was sentenced to six months in prison, the minimum term the jury could have given him since it was his third driving-while-intoxicated offense in five years in Virginia. Read more...
June 19, 2012
Former Trooper Gets 5 Years on Drug Charges
A former South Carolina state trooper who admitted to transporting marijuana in his patrol vehicle was sentenced to five years in prison. United States Attorney Bill Nettles said that Kurt Steffen, 30, of Summerville was sentenced for manufacturing and possessing with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants. Senior United States District Judge C. Weston Houck sentenced Steffen to 60 months imprisonment to be followed by 4 years supervised release. Read more...
Principal Resigns After Arrest on Drug Charges
The principal of a Kissimmee elementary school who was arrested last week on multiple drug charges has resigned. David Groover phoned in his resignation as principal of Partin Settlement Elementary to the Osceola County schools' human-resources director, according to the district. Groover, 43, was arrested late Friday at his St. Cloud home. He was accused of providing methamphetamine and GHB, better known as the date-rape drug, to an undercover officer. Read more...
Police Arrest House-Sitter From Hell
An Ohio man was being held in jail for allegedly running a meth lab from a home he had been asked to watch while the owners were on vacation. John Joseph Piscitelli IV, 24, faces charges of illegal manufacture of drugs, illegal assembly of chemicals and obstructing official business. When the owners returned home Saturday, they found what they suspected were the components for manufacturing methamphetamine. Read more...
June 18, 2012
Easing of Pot Laws Poses Challenge for Parents
Michael Jolton was a young father with a 5-year-old son when Colorado legalized medical marijuana in 2000. Now he's got three boys, the oldest near adulthood, and finds himself repeatedly explaining green-leafed marijuana ads and "free joint" promotions endemic in his suburban hometown. "I did not talk to my oldest son about marijuana when he was 8 years old. We got to talk about fun stuff. Now with my youngest who's 8, we have to talk about this," said Jolton, a consultant from Lakewood. Read more...
Nick Stahl Checks Out of Rehab
Nearly one month after checking himself into rehab, "Terminator" actor Nick Stahl has checked himself back out - against doctors' orders. "He left a week ago," a source told E! News of Stahl's decision to abruptly end his stint in rehab. "He walked out against doctors' advice. He just didn't want to be there anymore ... It is very sad. He's still struggling and has yet to hit rock bottom. Everyone is extremely worried about him." Read more...
June 16, 2012
Lohan Treated for Exhaustion After Film Shoot
Lindsay Lohan continued to bring drama to the production of her latest film, receiving treatment for exhaustion and dehydration a week after she was involved in a car crash that sent her to the hospital. Lohan's publicist Steve Honig says producers of the Lifetime film "Liz and Dick" summoned paramedics to Lohan's hotel room after she did not respond for a shoot. The incident occurred after the actress completed an all-night shoot and had kept up a grueling schedule in recent days, Honig said. Read more...
Drunk Mom Didn't Know Kids' Names
Police say a Muncie woman was so drunk at her home that she couldn't recall the names of her four children, who range in age from 13 to 2. One of the children found in the trash-filled home, however, was able to tell police she had not eaten in three days. Donnica Tonyale Douglass was arrested on preliminary charges of neglect of a dependent, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct. Read more...
June 15, 2012
Man Charged in $80M Prescription Drug Heist
A Florida man pleaded not guilty to charges that he was involved in the theft of about $80 million in prescription drugs from a Connecticut warehouse in 2010. Amed Villa entered his plea in U.S. District Court in New Haven, said his attorney, Jonathan J. Einhorn, and Tom Carson, spokesman for the U.S. attorney. In March 2010, thieves broke into the Enfield warehouse of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. by scaling an exterior wall and cutting a hole in the warehouse roof. They used ropes to lower themselves to the floor and disabled alarms before using a forklift to load pallets of drugs into a getaway vehicle. Read more...
Baby Soaps Can Cause Positive THC Tests
Certain soaps used to wash babies shortly after birth may cause the baby to test positive for marijuana on some newborn screening tests, a new study suggests. In the study, urine samples that contained minute amounts of any of five baby soaps — Johnson & Johnson's Head-to-Toe Baby Wash, J&J Bedtime Bath, CVS Night-Time Baby Bath, Aveeno Soothing Relief Creamy Wash and Aveeno Wash Shampoo — gave a positive result on a drug screening test for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana. Read more...
June 14, 2012
Lions RB Leshoure Suspended 2 Games
Detroit Lions running back Mikel Leshoure, twice busted for marijuana possession this offseason, has been suspended two games by the NFL for violating the league's substance-abuse program. Leshoure, 22, will forfeit four game checks as part of the punishment. Lions president Tom Lewand said the team supports the decision, saying it expects every member of the organization "to uphold a greater standard of behavior." Read more...
June 13, 2012
Giants' David Diehl Apologizes for DUI
Remorseful, embarrassed and bitterly disappointed in himself, Giants guard David Diehl stood in front of his locker Tuesday and apologized for "a bad decision" that resulted in his being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. The leader of the Super Bowl champions' offensive line addressed a media throng and said he hoped people would not judge him by this one mistake. Read more...
June 12, 2012
NY Giants Lineman Diehl Charged With DWI
New York City police say Giants offensive lineman David Diehl has been charged with driving while intoxicated. Police say they got calls about a vehicle accident in Queens. When they got there, they found a BMW had struck several parked cars along 35th Avenue. They say Diehl was behind the wheel. He was charged after a Breathalyzer test allegedly showed he was above the legal limit. Read more...
June 11, 2012
'Jersey Shore' Cast Member Deena Arrested
A "Jersey Shore" cast member has been arrested in the New Jersey town where the MTV show is based. Seaside Heights Police Chief Tommy Boyd said that Deena Cortese was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Boyd says a borough officer saw Cortese "a little intoxicated" and standing in the middle of a street, slapping cars that were driving by. Read more...
June 08, 2012
Ying Yang Twins' D-Roc Arrested For DUI
There was a time when the Ying Yang Twins were at the top of the rap game, but last week group member D-Roc hit a low point when he was arrested and hit with DUI, drug possession and child endangerment charges. D-Roc (born Deongelo Holmes) was arrested in Georgia after Gwinnett County police stopped the rapper for failing to drive in a single lane. According to a police report, D-Roc admitted to having "a few beers at a friend's house" and smoking marijuana earlier in the evening. He was driving with his children (a 3-year old and a 2-month-old), who were asleep in the back seat of his 2002 GMC Yukon Denali. Read more...
Scout Willis Rejects DUI Plea Deal
Scout Willis has rejected an offer to plead guilty following her arrest on suspicion of underage drinking. The 20-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore was charged with two misdemeanors on Tuesday after being arrested for allegedly drinking beer at New York's Union Square on Monday and giving officers a fake ID, but she doesn't want to end up with a criminal record over the incident. Read more...
June 07, 2012
Doctors Arrested in NY Prescription Drug Crackdown
Federal and state authorities have charged 98 people in New York City and Long Island, including two doctors and a nurse, with trafficking and abuse of painkillers and other prescription drugs, they said. The charges follow a crackdown on traffickers who stole or forged prescriptions to obtain large quantities of painkillers that could be illegally resold to users, and on doctors and nurses who knowingly helped traffic the drugs, according to Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Read more...
36 Arrested in Puerto Rico Airport Drug Ring
Thirty-six people were arrested in a crackdown on a drug trafficking ring that used Puerto Rico's main airport to smuggle large quantities of cocaine off the island aboard U.S.-bound passenger flights, authorities said. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the 36 detainees, including 22 suspects rounded up at San Juan's International Airport, were among 45 people indicted for smuggling more than 61,000 pounds of cocaine out of the U.S. territory on commercial flights to the U.S. mainland since 1999. Read more...
Amber Portwood's 5-Year Prison Term Reinstated
"Teen Mom" reality star Amber Portwood is heading to prison for up to five years, after giving up on a drug rehab program. Portwood, 22, was sentenced in February to three years in an Indiana prison for possessing prescription drugs without a prescription, and another two years for a probation violation. A plea deal allowed her to avoid prison and instead pursue treatment at a rehab facility. But after three months in the rehab program, Portwood called it quits and decided to opt for prison. Read more...
June 06, 2012
Rap Music Agent Found Guilty in Drug Case
A rap and hip-hop industry agent has been found guilty of federal drug trafficking charges in New York City. The jury verdict was reached at the Brooklyn trial of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond. The head of New York-based Czar Entertainment was charged last year with running a coast-to-coast drug ring that used music equipment cases to transport cocaine and drug money. The 47-year-old Rosemond had claimed he was framed. Read more...
Man Charged in 4 DUI Deaths Pleads Guilty
A Florida man accused of killing four people in a drunken driving crash has pleaded guilty. With jury selection set to begin in Pinellas County, 22-year-old Demetrius Jordan pleaded guilty to four counts of DUI manslaughter and one count of driving under the influence with serious bodily injury. He faces up to life in prison at his July 20 sentencing. Read more...
Bruce and Demi's Daughter Scout Arrested
New York City police say the underage daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis was caught drinking in public and carrying fake identification. The New York Police Department said Tuesday that officers found 20-year-old Scout Willis sipping a beer in Union Square in violation of an open-container law. Police say she also showed them a fake ID — a misdemeanor. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Wants DUI Officer Fired
Amanda Bynes was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs – then took her case directly to the White House. "I don't drink," the actress, 26, said in a Tweet to the Barack Obama presidential campaign. "Please fire the cop who arrested me." The misdemeanor charge relates to her April 6 arrest, when Bynes was pulled over at 3 a.m. in West Hollywood after allegedly sideswiping a police car in her BMW when she tried to make a right turn. Read more...
June 05, 2012
4th Teen Dies After Pre-Graduation Crash
An 18-year-old boy died a day after he was thrown from a car just hours before his high school graduation in a northeast Ohio crash that killed three other teens. The Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland released a statement from Kevin Fox's family saying he had died. "We are grateful for the overwhelming support that the northeast Ohio community has given our family during this difficult time," the Fox family statement said. A car carrying Fox and four other teenagers went airborne, crashed, and flipped onto its roof at a railroad crossing early Sunday. Fox was ejected from the car's backseat and landed in a ditch. He was flown to the hospital. Read more...
Justin Blackmon's Blood Alcohol Three Times Limit
The story behind Justin Blackmon's DUI arrest in Stillwater, Okla., isn't getting any prettier. Stillwater police spokesman Capt. Randy Dickerson confirmed to NFL.com that the former Oklahoma State wide receiver smelled of alcohol when an officer pulled him over shortly after 3 a.m. local time. Blackmon agreed to take a breathalyzer test and blew a .24 -- three times the state's legal limit. Under Oklahoma law, a BAC above .15 constitutes the charge of aggravated DUI. It can be prosecuted as a felony or misdemeanor. Read more...
June 04, 2012
Stoned Mom Forgets Baby on Car Roof
Phoenix police have arrested a woman who allegedly drove off after forgetting that her 5-week-old baby was in a car seat on the roof of her vehicle. Officer James Holmes said officers were called out after witnesses found a child strapped in a safety seat in the middle of an intersection. The boy wasn't hurt. He's now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services. Read more...
Jaguars First-Round Pick Arrested for DUI
Jacksonville Jaguars first-round draft pick receiver Justin Blackmon was being held on $1,000 bail after he was arrested on an aggravated DUI charge, authorities said. The former Oklahoma State star was booked into the jail after Stillwater police arrested him, Payne County Sheriff Sgt. Brandon Ingham said. Blackmon was previously arrested on a DUI charge in Texas in 2010 after officers caught him speeding on a suburban Dallas highway. Read more...
Vikings FB Jerome Felton Arrested for DWI
Minnesota Vikings fullback Jerome Felton has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired and refusing to submit to a chemical test. Eden Prairie police say Felton was arrested just before midnight. Online court records show Felton was released from jail Saturday after posting $12,000 bond. A court appearance is set for July 18. Read more...
June 02, 2012
Tulsa Teen Shot to Death Day After Graduation
Kayla Ferrante was riding home after her high school graduation party in Tulsa when shots rang out: One bullet pierced the rear license plate of her boyfriend's Cadillac STS, traveled through the trunk and two seats and hit her in the back, ending a life that family and friends said was marked by determination and purpose. Ferrante, 17, had graduated last Friday – a year early. On Saturday, she had been to a family graduation party and a friend's house and was just blocks from home when several shots were fired. Read more...
Unemployed Drug Users in Georgia Risk Benefits
Georgians who fail a drug test while trying to get a job could lose their unemployment benefits under a new policy being quietly implemented by the state's Labor Department. The agency isn't forcing everyone who collects jobless benefits to take a drug test. Instead, officials are asking businesses and the public to essentially rat out people who fail a drug test required to apply for a job. Read more...
Matthew Fox Will Face No Jail for DUI
"Lost" star Matthew Fox won't be locked up after his DUI arrest last month -- TMZ has learned, the actor struck a plea deal with prosecutors that will keep him out of jail. In exchange for no jail time, Fox pled no contest to one count of DUI. As part of the deal, Fox's driving privileges have been revoked for one year, during which he also can't drink alcohol. The actor is also required to complete a drug and alcohol treatment program. Read more...
Brooke Mueller Back in Rehab
Brooke Mueller, the ex-wife of Charlie Sheen, is back in rehab for her crack cocaine addiction. Mueller has struggled with the addiction for over 10 years and has had multiple stints in rehab, a source told the gossip website. She was arrested in December for cocaine possession and assault but agreed to a plea deal to avoid jail. Her rep Steve Honig said Mueller is seeking recovery "as part of her ongoing treatment and as planned. She voluntarily checked herself into a rehab facility several weeks ago." Read more...
June 01, 2012
Drug Dealer Mistakenly Sends Officer Text Messages
Police say a drug dealer mistakenly sent messages to a California central coast police officer in an attempt to sell methamphetamines. The Santa Maria officer notified Santa Barbara County sheriff's detectives about the errant text messages. The officer and detectives then set up a meeting with the alleged drug dealer. Sheriff's spokesman Drew Sugars says they arrested 39-year-old Reymundo Carlos Escobedo and seized about 2 grams of methamphetamine. Read more...
Drug Charges for Bus Driver in Disneyland Trip
A charter bus driver has been charged with drug possession after police say he had drugs in his system when he showed up to take a group of recent southern Utah high school graduates to Disneyland. Brandon Gillman faces two felony counts for possession of cocaine and the painkiller Endocet, and a misdemeanor count for possession of the sleeping pill Zolpidem. The 30-year-old also faces misdemeanors for possessing drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence. Read more...
May 31, 2012
Drunk, Pregnant Mother Leaves Baby in Car
A drunk, pregnant woman was arrested in Houston after she left her 1-year-old child in her car while she tried to get a piercing. The unnamed woman, who is seven months pregnant, drove to a tattoo parlor in the north of the city and asked the artist how long it would take because her baby was waiting in the car, KTRK reported. Staff called police and kicked her out of the parlor and an employee followed her out, where she passed out with the front door of her car wide open. Read more...
May 30, 2012
UGA's Donte' Williams Arrested for Marijuana Possession
Georgia basketball player Donte' Williams was arrested at Lenox Square Mall this past weekend for misdemeanor possession of marijuana, Atlanta police confirmed. According to a preliminary police report, Atlanta police officers had just pulled into the Zone Two police station in the mall parking lot when a black Dodge Charger with the personalized license plate of "DWILLS15? drove by. Officer Sauderan reported smelling "an extremely strong odor of burning marijuana coming from this vehicle." After the Charger parked in a space "right next to an Atlanta Police patrol car," the officer approached the vehicle on foot to investigate. Read more...
Amanda Bynes Denies DUI Story
Amanda Bynes says one of the stories about her ongoing car accident problems was completely false. TMZ first reported that Bynes was in another hit and run in April, but the "Easy A" actress has taken to Twitter to deny the story. "I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs," Bynes, 26, twittered. "I don't drink so the DUI is false." Read more...
May 29, 2012
$2.6 Million in Cocaine Found in Woman's Luggage
Indonesian authorities say they have arrested five people after allegedly finding $2.6 million worth of cocaine in a British woman's luggage. Lindsay June Sandiford was found to have blocks of cocaine in her suitcase after she arrived in Bali on a Thai Airways flight, government officials said. She covered her face as she was escorted in front of the media. Sandiford -- who was described as a 55-year-old housewife by the British media -- has not made a public statement. Read more...
May 28, 2012
Johnny Tapia Found Dead in Home
Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead at his Albuquerque home. He was 45. Authorities were called to the house at about 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The death didn't appear to be suspicious, he said. Read more...
Lions' Nick Fairley Arrested for DUI
Nick Fairley is in trouble again. This time, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and attempting to elude police. Fairley, the Detroit Lions' first-round pick a year ago, was arrested for the second time since the beginning of April by Alabama State Troopers. Fairley was arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana last month, also in Mobile, and is awaiting a July arraignment on that charge. Read more...
May 26, 2012
Bus Driver Taking Kids to Disneyland Arrested
An alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said. About 100 students from Canyon View High School in southern Utah had just graduated Thursday night and boarded the charter bus for their senior trip, Adams said. Read more...
Porn Star Arrested After Car Crash
Former adult film star Jenna Jameson was arrested on misdemeanor suspicion of driving under the influence. The 38-year-old porn legend allegedly ran her car into a light pole in Westminster, Calif., the Associated Press reports. The single car accident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Jameson appeared to show signs of intoxication, according to sources. Police officers reportedly administered a field sobriety test. After presumably determining she was under the influence, they then took the iconic porn queen into custody for suspected DUI. Read more...
May 25, 2012
Former Prosecutor Arrested on Drug Charges
A former Fulton County prosecutor turned high-profile defense attorney was charged with intent to distribute methamphetamine and ecstasy, Atlanta police said in a statement. Rand Csehy, a former assistant district attorney who participated in the prosecution of Fulton County courthouse shooter Brian Nichols, was arrested during a law enforcement sting, according to the APD. Csehy, 40, also was charged with with two counts of possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony and cocaine possession. Read more...
May 24, 2012
Sean O'Neill Pleads Guilty to DUI
Sean Owen O'Neill Jr., 23, of Glen Mills, who as a teenager shot and killed his best friend during drunken horseplay at his family's Willistown home, was in front of a judge to enter a guilty plea to charges of driving under the influence and two summary traffic violations stemming from a Thanksgiving morning crash into a home on Westtown Road. Now O'Neill is awaiting a formal sentencing date, at which Seide said her office would seek the maximum term allowable by law, six months in county prison, for the DUI. Read more...
May 23, 2012
Infamous 'Mountain Man' Turns Himself In
Police arrested notorious "mountain man" Don Nichols on drug charges following a months-long search that came nearly three decades after he and his father kidnapped a world-class athlete. Nichols was taken into custody after phoning the U.S. Marshals Service and saying he would be in the Walmart parking lot in Butte between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff John Walsh said. Nichols showed up as promised in a 1982 red Honda Prelude with Bozeman license plates and was arrested without incident, Walsh said. Read more...
May 22, 2012
Fighter Nick Diaz Suspended for One Year
After months of legal wrangling and precedents being filed, the Nevada State Athletic Commission finally ruled on Nick Diaz's positive marijuana test and they dropped the hammer on the Stockton, Calif., fighter. Following a three-hour-plus hearing in which Diaz spoke to the commission at length about everything including his history with marijuana use, his medical marijuana card in California, his previous positive test from 2007, and his questionnaire filled out prior to his fight at UFC 143, the commission handed down similar punishment to that of other athletes who have tested positive multiple times in the state. Read more...
Brooke Mueller Avoids Jail in Cocaine Case
Actor Charlie Sheen's former wife has received a deferred judgment in a drug case in Aspen, Colo., meaning her record will be cleared if she lives up to terms of a one-year probation. Brooke Mueller pleaded guilty in March to felony drug possession of four grams or less of cocaine. The charge stemmed from her arrest Dec. 3 after another woman reported being assaulted at a nightclub. Mueller's spokesman confirms that terms of a sentence handed down Monday bar Mueller from drinking alcohol while she is on probation. She also must submit to random urine tests. Read more...
May 21, 2012
UFC Star Jones Charged After Car Crash
UFC star Jon Jones was charged with DWI after the car he was driving struck a utility pole, police said. In a statement, police said they dispatched units at 5:02 a.m. for a one-car accident. Jones' 2012 Bentley struck a pole, according to the statement. Jones was released to family members and was issued a ticket to appear at a later date, police said. Read more...
Nick Stahl Checks Into Rehab
A few days ago, LAPD confirmed that 32-year-old Nick Stahl, best known for playing John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," was missing. His wife said that she last saw him on May 9th, adding that he had been frequenting the Skid Row are of Downtown Los Angeles and that he has a drug problem. Then came word that Stahl emailed friends and apologized for scaring them. He added that he has been getting treatment. Stahl's wife was not on the email and LAPD did not consider this a confirmation that the actor is safe. Read more...
May 19, 2012
Maritime Cadet Charged in Drunken Crowd Crash
A 21-year-old Mass. Maritime cadet is facing drunken driving charges after police and school officials say he drove his car into a crowd of people, hitting one fellow student before backing into two other people and then fleeing the scene. Max Yerger — identified by school president Admiral Richard Gurnon as a junior at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy — is accused of being drunk when police say he hit and injured three people in an early morning crash near the school, including a 32-year-old woman who was flown to Tufts Medical Center with potentially life-threatening injures and two fellow 21-year-old cadets. Read more...
Mark Ditka's Breath Test Tossed by Judge
A Lake County judge threw out the results of a portable breath test administered during the September DUI arrest of Mark Ditka, 49. Judge Helen Rozenberg said she was concerned that Ditka's use of citrus-flavored tobacco immediately before the test could have tainted the result, which pegged his blood-alcohol content at 0.16, twice the legal limit. The ruling won't torpedo the case against Ditka, who remains charged with drunken driving. The Deerfield officer who administered the test still had probable cause to arrest Ditka, prosecutors said, because the suspect allegedly smelled like alcohol, slurred his words and failed field sobriety tests. Read more...
May 18, 2012
Marijuana Use Grows, Cocaine Falls Among Arrestees
Cocaine use is down but marijuana use continues to grow among men arrested in 10 U.S. cities, according to a federal drug-monitoring program's annual report. Marijuana was the most commonly used illegal substance, the 2011 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Annual Report (ADAM II) says. In Sacramento, Minneapolis, Chicago and Charlotte, N.C., 50 percent or more of arrestees tested positive, not significantly different from 2010, but continuing an upward trend from 2000, it said. Sacramento saw the highest use at 56 percent, and highest growth, up from 46 percent since 2009. Read more...
Notorious 1980s Drug Dealer Busted
A notorious drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and was so good at hiding his whereabouts that he was known as "the ghost" has been arrested along with dozens of others on new charges, police and prosecutors said. James Corley, 51, was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and other drug charges after a 15-month undercover investigation that used wiretaps and surveillance, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. Read more...
May 17, 2012
Mary Kennedy Found Dead in New York
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home. Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn't know the cause of her death at age 52. Police confirmed a body was found on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s property in Bedford, north of New York City. Mary Kennedy had had trouble with drugs and alcohol and had two high-profile arrests around the time her husband filed for divorce in July 2010. Read more...
May 16, 2012
Colorado House Passes Bill on Marijuana DUIs
A bill setting a blood standard for THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, has cleared the Colorado House and is pending in the Senate. Marijuana activists are fighting the proposal that passed the House Tuesday because they say blood THC tests are an unfair gauge of impairment. Sponsors of the bill say more drivers are using marijuana and the state needs a marijuana analogy to the accepted blood-alcohol limit. Read more...
James Koenig Arrested on Assault, DUI Charges
James Koenig, the father of slain barista Samantha Koenig, was arrested early Tuesday morning on charges including assault and DUI after he allegedly left an Anchorage strip club and drove drunk, threatening an employee who tried to stop him. APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says Koenig faces charges of third-degree assault -- a felony -- as well as fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons, DUI and refusal to take a breath test. Read more...
May 15, 2012
Prosecuting for Spice DUI Proves Difficult
Prosecuting drivers under the influence of synthetic cannabinoid products, or spice, is proving a challenge because changes in the drug are outpacing the crime lab's ability to test for it. Spice is a chemical drug that is constantly evolving. Every time one version becomes illegal, producers alter it slightly, making it legal again. The changes make testing for the drug moot. Read more...
May 14, 2012
Polo Tycoon Goodman Sentenced to 16 Years
Polo tycoon John Goodman was sentenced to 16 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 by a Florida judge for the drunk driving death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson. Goodman's Bentley slammed into Wilson's Hyundai and sent it into a nearby canal in Wellington, Fla., in February 2010. Wilson, an engineering graduate, was strapped into the driver's seat and drowned. Goodman, 48, also made headlines by adopting his girlfriend in an attempt to preserve part of his fortune for her while negotiating a civil suit settlement. Read more...
Amber Portwood Back in Jail for Missed Drug Test
Amber Portwood, a star of MTV's reality show "Teen Mom," is reportedly back in a jail after missing a court-mandated drug test. The reality star claimed she was recovering from a laparoscopic gallbladder surgery which preventing her from making the appointment because she was ordered to say in bed for 2-3 weeks. But when prosecutors contacted her doctor, he reportedly said did not order the bed rest and that Portwood was well enough to attend the test. Read more...
May 12, 2012
Lions' Leshoure Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge
Lions running back Mikel Leshoure pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of misdemeanor possession of marijuana Friday at the Berrien County District Courthouse. He paid $575 in fines and will be required next May to show proof of compliance with a treatment program that is being conducted through the NFL. Leshoure was cited by Baroda-Lake Township police for possession of marijuana March 12 in Bridgman, after a rented SUV he was a passenger in was pulled over on I-94. Since he was cited for possession of marijuana for the second time in a month, the second-offense charge from March 12 was a felony. Read more...
May 11, 2012
Raiders' Receiver Heyward-Bey Charged With DUI
Authorities say Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey has been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving following his arrest last month after a traffic stop on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. California Highway Patrol Officer Tony Tam says Heyward-Bey was driving his 2012 Range Rover on the lower deck of the bridge on April 7 when he was pulled over by a CHP officer who saw him speeding and weaving. Tam says the 25-year-old Heyward-Bey was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. Read more...
May 10, 2012
Ex-Miss USA Sentenced in Drunk Driving Case
Two years after becoming the first Arab-American to be named Miss USA, Rima Fakih has been sentenced to community service and probation for a drunken driving charge in Michigan. Fakih, 26, avoided any jail time by pleading no contest to driving while visibly impaired on the night of her arrest in December in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit. Judge William McConico gave her six months' probation and 20 hours of community service while ordering her to pay $600 in fines and court costs. Fakih also has to undergo a mandatory alcohol safety class and a victim impact class. Read more...
Amanda Bynes to Lose Driver's License?
Another Amanda Bynes hit and run? Oh yeah. The former child star allegedly sideswiped another vehicle on Friday night while driving through Hollywood. When she didn't stop, the other driver called police and followed her. Six cop cars and a helicopter finally caught up to the actress who claims to have not noticed that she hit the other vehicle. Officers believed her story, noting that the damage was so minimal it's possible she didn't feel the bump. Read more...
Thomas Kinkade's Death Ruled Overdose
An autopsy has found that artist Thomas Kinkade's death was caused by an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers. The Santa Clara County medical examiner concluded that the self-described "Painter of Light" stopped breathing at his Northern California home on April 6 from a combination of alcohol and Valium. His brother has said Kinkade battled alcoholism and relapsed before his death. Read more...
May 08, 2012
'Lost' Star Matthew Fox Arrested for DUI
Actor Matthew Fox, star of the television series "Lost," has been charged with drunken driving in Oregon. Police in Bend say the 45-year-old who lives in the Central Oregon city was stopped after an officer noticed a motorist failing to signal properly or stay within a lane of traffic. During the stop, the officer decided Fox was driving under the influence and took him to the Deschutes County Jail. Read more...
May 07, 2012
Singer Jake Owen Arrested on Alcohol Charges
Jake Owen had himself quite the Cinco de Mayo. Late last night, the country star was arrested in Vero Beach, Fla., and while it's not exactly clear what he did wrong, it likely had something to do with alcohol. "Whats the big deal about Cinco De Mayo," he tweeted at one point in the day. "I've been drinking my ass off Everydayo of Mayo." In subsequent tweets, the "Alone With You" singer detailed a series of events that culminated with him in police custody. Read more...
Clemson Star Watkins Arrested on Drug Charges
Clemson All-American receiver Sammy Watkins was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and a controlled substance. Watkins and soccer player Amadou-Tidiane Daniel Dia were stopped by university police after an officer saw the car scrape a curb and the temporary license tag was not lit. The police report said an officer smelled marijuana in the car and a subsequent search found two pills for which Watkins did not have a prescription. Read more...
May 04, 2012
Feds Break Up Major Florida-Based Drug Theft Ring
A Florida-based crime ring that stole at least $80 million worth of prescription drugs, including one of the nation's biggest heists in Connecticut in 2010, has been broken up following a three-year undercover FBI probe, federal authorities said. A total of 22 people were charged by federal authorities in New Jersey, Connecticut and Miami, where the group was based, Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said. The thieves hit warehouses and stole tractor-trailers around the country, often from highway rest stops, and brought the drugs to South Florida and New Jersey in an attempt to sell them. Read more...
Notre Dame Starting QB Rees Jailed
Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees was pepper-sprayed and arrested early Thursday after he allegedly ran away from an off-campus party and knocked the wind out of a police officer who caught up to him. A probable cause affidavit said the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Rees continued to resist even after being knocked down by police officer Brandon Stec, so Stec used pepper spray and was finally able to subdue him with the help of other officers. Rees, 19, was charged with one count of battery, two counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. Read more...
May 03, 2012
Wiz Khalifa Busted For Marijuana in N.C.
It's no secret that Wiz Khalifa is a marijuana enthusiast, but his love of pot has gotten him in trouble again. Wiz was ticketed for possession of marijuana after officers discovered 11.39 grams of weed upon a search of Khalifa and his tour bus on Tuesday night in North Carolina. The Pittsburgh MC was "cited and released," the site reported, but he's required to appear in court at an unspecified later date.
May 02, 2012
'Oil Can' Boyd Tells ESPN He Used Crack Every Day
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd told ESPN that he used crack cocaine every day of the 1986 season while with the Boston Red Sox, including one day in Oakland when he smoked in the clubhouse before a start and had the drug in his cap while on the mound. In an interview with ESPN's Buster Olney that appeared in an episode of "E: 60" the former pitcher said teammates knew of his drug use and he even spoke of it with team doctor and minority owner Arthur Pappas. Boyd said in the interview that he never was administered a drug test. Read more...
May 01, 2012
Number of US Newborns With Drug Withdrawal Triples
Disturbing new research says the number of U.S. babies born with signs of opiate drug withdrawal has tripled in a decade because of a surge in pregnant women's use of legal and illegal narcotics, including Vicodin, OxyContin and heroin, researchers say. It is the first national study of the problem. The number of newborns with withdrawal symptoms increased from a little more than 1 per 1,000 babies sent home from the hospital in 2000 to more than 3 per 1,000 in 2009, the study found. More than 13,000 U.S. infants were affected in 2009, the researchers estimated. Read more...
Bobby Brown: I Didn't Get Whitney Houston Into Drugs
Whitney Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown wants to make one thing clear: He's "not the reason" she's gone. The Roxbury bad boy sat down with "The Today Show" host Matt Lauer and declared he never used narcotics until Whitney came into his life. "I didn't get high (on hard drugs) before I met Whitney," Brown said. "I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all." He added that Whitney was familiar with drugs "way before" they became a couple. Read more...
Natalie Wood's Daughter Arrested on Drug Charges
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner's daughter, Courtney Wagner, was arrested for coke and heroin possession after police received a report of a gunshot at her Malibu home. Police were called to the home of 38-year-old Wagner last Sunday after a woman's screams were heard, followed by a gunshot. No one was injured. However, when police arrived they found Wagner in possession of cocaine and heroin and arrested her on suspicion of felony drug possession, the website said. Wagner has since posted $10,000 bail. Read more...
April 30, 2012
Drunk Reports Car Stolen From Passenger Seat
A man who reported his car stolen – only to be found, soon after, in the car's passenger seat – was "highly intoxicated" when he dialed 911 and set in motion events that would get both him and his buddy arrested, according to Seattle police. Police responded to the area and quickly found the Audi – along with the car's owner (also known as the "victim," also known as the 911 caller), sitting in the passenger seat. Read more...
April 27, 2012
Wiz Khalifa Arrested for Marijuana Possession
Wiz Khalifa was hit with a citation for misdemeanor possession by Nashville police after the rapper (real name Cameron Jibril Thomaz) was caught lighting up in his Holiday Inn room Saturday. According to The Tennessean, Khalifa, 24, and his pal Lonnie Howard, 27, were having a fun game of puff-puff-pass when fellow residents at the hotel complained about a strong marijuana odor coming from their room. Read more...
Brandon Meriweather Arrested on Suspicion of DUI
Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather was arrested Thursday morning in Arlington, Va., on suspicion of driving under the influence, Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck confirmed. Meriweather was traveling westbound on Interstate-66 when he was pulled over at 2:54 a.m. Police detected an odor of alcohol on Meriweather's breath, Sternbeck said. Meriweather refused a breathalyzer test and failed a field sobriety test. Read more...
Ryan Leaf Declared Fugitive From Justice
On the night when Andrew Luck, the quarterback out of Stanford, was scooped up by the Indianapolis Colts as the year's top draft pick, a former high-profile draft pick, Ryan Leaf, was declared a fugitive from justice in Texas. Authorities in Texas issued two arrest warrants for Leaf's arrest. The Texas prosecutor who brokered a 10-year probationary sentence for Leaf two years ago on drug and burglary charges filed a motion to revoke Leaf's probation earlier this month. Read more...
April 26, 2012
L.A. Airport Screeners Arrested on Drug Charges
Two security screeners at Los Angeles International Airport have been arrested on drug trafficking and corruption charges, accused of taking bribes to allow large narcotic shipments through the airport, authorities said. The pair were arrested along with two former airport screeners. Authorities said the screeners allowed drugs to pass through x-ray machine checkpoints in five incidents in exchange for payments of as much as $2,400. Read more...
Bobby Brown Gets Plea Deal in DUI
Singer Bobby Brown was sentenced to three years' probation and a day in Los Angeles County jail after pleading no contest to misdemeanor driving under the influence in connection with his drunk-driving arrest last month, prosecutors from the city attorney's office said. Brown will not have to serve time because he gets credit for time served. He also was fined $390 and must attend a 90-day alcohol education program. The singer was arrested March 26 near Victory Boulevard and Wilbur Avenue after a California Highway Patrol officer pulled him over for talking on his cellphone. He later failed a field sobriety test, authorities said. Read more...
April 25, 2012
Scarface's Chi Chi busted for DUI
One of the actors of the '80s Miami epic Scarface is in a bit of a jam. Angel Salazar, who is best known for playing Chi Chi, Tony Montana's "colleague,'' was arrested for DUI in Brooklyn last week. Cops spotted Salazar, 56, swerving in his 1999 Volvo and pulled the actor over. According to the police report, he smelled of alcohol and blew a .121 on a breathalyzer, well over the .08 limit. The comedian was later released on bail. Read more...
April 24, 2012
Demi Lovato Confesses to Cocaine Use
Demi Lovato has added drug use to the long list of demons that led to her downward spiral in 2010. The former Disney star reveals in a new interview with Fabulous magazine that loneliness and depression led to her first use of cocaine. "It's something I don't really want to talk about," the 19-year-old star told the magazine. Read more...
April 23, 2012
DEA Busts 'The Farmer's Market' for Drug Sales
Federal, state, and international law enforcement authorities have arrested eight people who all face federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges stemming from their creation and operation of a "secret" on-line narcotics market place – known as the "The Farmer's Market" – which sold a variety of controlled substances to approximately 3,000 customers in 34 countries and 50 states. Read more...
Civil Rights Leader Arrested for Drugs
Carl O. Snowden, civil rights chief for the Maryland attorney general's office, was charged in Baltimore District Court with marijuana possession the same day he announced a voluntary leave of absence from his job — according to online court records. He was under court supervision for a drunken-driving conviction at the time of the arrest, and could face 60 days in jail if Anne Arundel County prosecutors pursue a probation-violation charge against him. Read more...
April 20, 2012
Van Halen Blames Father for Alcoholism
Eddie Van Halen puts some of the blame on his father for his long struggle with alcohol. In the May issue of Esquire, the Van Halen guitarist said "the whole alcoholism thing" developed when he asked his dad how to combat his nerves when playing music in front of people. His father gave him a shot of vodka and a cigarette to ease his nerves, and that started Van Halen on a near lifetime of drinking. Read more...
April 19, 2012
Cocaine Overdose 'Antidote' in the Future?
The potential effects of a cocaine overdose can be devastating – including stroke, seizure, kidney failure and even death. But now, a cocaine "antidote" could soon be available for emergency scenarios. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Cali., have come up with an injectable solution that has been shown to reverse the effects of cocaine overdose in mice. After success with their experiments thus far, the researchers are eager to move on to human clinical trials – and potentially develop a viable treatment. Read more...
Crack Cocaine Ring Busted -- at Sober House
Police have arrested a Connecticut man accused of running a crack cocaine operation out of a sober house. Police said they received several tips that Khalil Hipps, 31, of Norwich, was running a drug operation out of the Liberty House, a transitional sober house on Washington Street in Norwich, and selling drugs on the street. Read more...
Court Upholds Drugged Driving Charge
Michigan's medical marijuana law doesn't shield people from charges if they are caught driving after using the drug, the state appeals court ruled Wednesday in another significant decision involving the 2008 voter-approved law. A three-judge panel sided with the Grand Traverse County prosecutor in northern Michigan by restoring a criminal case against Rodney Koon, a medical marijuana user who was stopped in 2010 for exceeding the speed limit by nearly 30 mph. He admitted smoking marijuana six hours earlier, and a blood test revealed the drug in his body. Read more...
April 18, 2012
Court Weighs Revisions in Cocaine-Case Sentences
The Supreme Court heard arguments about an aspect of one of the greatest controversies in American criminal law: the differing treatment of crack and powder cocaine. Crack and powder cocaine are two forms of the same drug. But, until recently, a drug dealer selling crack cocaine was subject to the same sentence as one selling 100 times as much powder. Read more...
April 17, 2012
Bobby Brown Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
Singer Bobby Brown pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor charges related to driving under the influence, a spokesman for the city attorney's office said. Brown, 43, formerly married to the late pop diva Whitney Houston, was pulled over March 26 in Reseda after he was spotted talking on his cellphone. After taking a field sobriety test, he was arrested and charged. He faces charges of driving under the influence, driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08% and driving with a suspended license, according to prosecutors. Read more...
April 16, 2012
Ryan Leaf Formally Charged With 4 Felonies
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been formally charged with four felonies on accusations that he broke into an acquaintance's home to steal prescription painkillers, then robbed a second home two days after being released from jail. Cascade County Attorney John Parker charged Leaf with two counts of burglary and two counts of criminal possession of a dangerous drug. Read more...
April 13, 2012
Attorney Jennifer Little Arrested for DUI
Attorney Jennifer Little, recently hired by the widow of Dunwoody day care shooting victim Rusty Sneiderman, was arrested morning and charged with suspected DUI, speeding and reckless driving. Little was traveling northbound on I-85 near Buford Highway around 12:30 a.m. when she was stopped by Atlanta police, who clocked her at 91 mph -- 36 mph over the speed limit. The former DeKalb County prosecutor refused field and chemical sobriety tests. Read more...
April 12, 2012
No Foul Play in Whitney Houston Case
Police have concluded their investigation into Whitney Houston's death in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, determining that the singer's pre-Grammy Awards death did not involve foul play. Lt. Mark Rosen, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department, said investigators based their decision on the coroner's findings that the singer's death was due to accidental drowning and, in part, the result of cocaine ingestion and a heart condition. Read more...
Al Unser Jr. Convicted of Second DUI in Five Years
Maybe legendary race car driver Al Unser Jr. thought he saw a raised checkered flag in the dead of night on that lonely stretch of New Mexico freeway: Speeds were high, discretion apparently tossed to the wind. But with his second DUI conviction in less than five years, it's Unser's reputation that's now seemingly a bit more checkered. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and drag racing, charges that stemmed from a September incident near Albuquerque, authorities say. Read more...
Ex-Miss USA Fakih Reaches Plea Deal in DUI
Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, pleaded no contest in a Michigan drunken driving case. The former beauty queen offered the plea to driving while visibly impaired. A no contest plea isn't an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing, which will take place May 9. She faces a maximum of 93 days in jail. Fakih, 26, has said she wasn't drinking the night of her arrest in December, but two police breath tests put her blood alcohol content at over twice the legal limit. Read more...
April 11, 2012
James Belushi Caught With Weed by TSA
James Belushi got into trouble for flying with a marijuana cigarette. The 'Cougars, Inc' actor landed on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts but Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials found the drug on him. James tried to use his California medical marijuana card to validate having the joint with him, but was told it was worthless in the state. The cigarette was confiscated by the authorities and James was let off with a warning. Read more...
April 10, 2012
Ketamine Users Risk Urinary Problems
Users of the drug ketamine, known by the street name 'special K,' face an increased risk of urinary and bladder control problems and abdominal pain. The more ketamine they use and the more often they use it, the greater the chance of developing urinary tract issues, a British study has found. Read more...
KU Running Back Sims Arrested for DUI
Kansas running back James Sims was suspended for the first three games of the Jayhawks' 2012 season by coach Charlie Weis following an arrest for operating a vehicle under the influence. According to Douglas County records, Sims was picked up by KU campus police after 2 a.m. in the 1300 Block of Jayhawk Boulevard. Sims, 20, posted $500 bond and a municipal court date has been set for April 25. Read more...
April 09, 2012
Amanda Bynes Arrested for DUI
After colliding with a police car early Friday morning, Amanda Bynes was arrested for driving under influence. According to the West Hollywood Sheriff's Department, "a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy in a marked black and white radio car, was stopped at the intersection when a black BMW driven by actress Amanda Bynes attempted to pass the right of the radio car, colliding with the right rear quarter panel of the radio car." Read more...
April 06, 2012
Loren Woods Charged With DUI
Former NBA player Loren Woods was arrested on DUI charges in Tampa, Fla., according to authorities. Jail records show 33-year-old Woods refused a blood-alcohol test when he was arrested and later released on $2,500 bail. According to the NBA's website, he played for six years, including a brief stint with the Miami Heat. Woods was charged with a misdemeanor DUI and a felony count of bribery of a public servant. Read more...
4 TCU Players Formally Charged With Pot Delivery
Three more TCU football players have been charged with felony marijuana delivery after a six-month sting. Defensive tackle D.J. Yendrey, linebacker Tanner Brock and offensive tackle Ty Horn are among 14 people charged Thursday in the TCU drug investigation, bringing the total number charged to 23. All three are charged with delivering a quarter-ounce to five pounds of marijuana. Read more...
April 05, 2012
Former WWE Star Maven Arrested on Drug Charges
Retired wrestler Maven Huffman has been arrested in Florida after allegedly visiting three doctors to score multiple pain medication prescriptions. The former Surreal Life star was taken into custody on Monday (02Apr12) after cops discovered Huffman had allegedly been doctor shopping for Oxycodone and Hydrocodone prescriptions, which is illegal without full-disclosure. Read more...
Extent of Whitney Houston's Cocaine Use Revealed
Whitney Houston was submerged in bathwater for nearly an hour before a personal assistant found her dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an autopsy report said. The report provided new details on the death of the 48-year-old singer who died of a combination of heart trouble and cocaine ingestion, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said in a 41-page final report. Read more...
April 04, 2012
Lions Nick Fairley Arrested for Marijuana Possession
A third member of the Detroit Lions' 2011 draft class is facing drug charges, after defensive tackle Nick Fairley was arrested today in Mobile, Ala. Fairley, a first-round pick out of Auburn last year, was cited for second-degree possession of marijuana, after he was pulled over following a citizen complaint that his Cadillac Escalade was speeding through a Mobile neighborhood frequently, Mobile police information officer Ashley Rains said. Read more...
April 03, 2012
Braves Reliever Martinez Arrested for DUI
Braves reliever Cristhian Martinez was arrested in Gwinnett County on charges of DUI, after allegedly weaving in and out of a lane and traveling at a low speed on I-85, confirmed Gwinnett County police spokesman Corporal Jake Smith. Martinez was pulled over at 2:42 a.m. on I-85 North at Steve Reynolds Boulevard for failure to maintain a single lane by a Gwinnett County police officer who clocked Martinez traveling 40 mph. The officer smelled alcohol on Martinez's breath, Smith said, and put him through a field sobriety test. Martinez's blood alcohol registered .13 in a breathalyzer administered at the Gwinnett County jail, Smith said. Read more...
Lions' Mikel Leshoure Facing Felony Marijuana Charge
Lions running back Mikel Leshoure is facing a felony charge of possession of marijuana in Berrien County District Court after a March traffic stop, his second drug-related offense in less than a month in the county. Leshoure, who missed his rookie season in 2011 with a torn Achilles tendon, was the passenger in a rented 2012 Mitsubishi Endeavor SUV that was pulled over March 12 while heading westbound on I-94 in Bridgman, according to a Baroda-Lake Township Police case report. Read more...
April 02, 2012
Woman in Vodka "Rape" Ad Files Lawsuit
A actress from Los Angeles is suing the makers of Belvedere Vodka after the firm allegedly used her image without permission in a controversial ad that appears to show a woman about to be date-raped. The ad shows a shocked Alicyn Packard trying to get away from the clutches of a man, with the tagline, "Unlike Some People, Belvedere Always Goes Down Smooth". Packard, who says she never gave Belvedere producers Moet Hennessy USA permission to use her picture, is suing the company for negligent infliction of emotional distress and misappropriation of likeness. Read more...
Former NFL Quarterback Ryan Leaf Arrested
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf, once a Heisman Trophy finalist and San Diego Chargers first round draft choice, was arrested in his hometown of Great Falls, Montana, on theft and drug charges, authorities said. Leaf was arrested on Friday on suspicion of felony burglary and drug possession as well as a misdemeanor theft charge, authorities said. Read more...
March 30, 2012
5 Georgia Players Facing Suspension
Apparently, the University of Georgia athletic department decided to drug test members of the school's football team immediately following spring break. They may now be regretting that decision. Although the university has yet to confirm the reports, as many as five players face suspensions due to failed test, including two starters. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan's Legal Woes End After 5 Years
Lindsay Lohan will not be appearing in court anymore if she continues to obey the law, a Los Angeles judge told her after ending the actress' supervised probation on shoplifting and drunk-driving convictions. The hearing put an end to Lohan's five years of criminal court appearances that saw the actress bounce in and out of rehab and jail for violating her probation. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner declared "she did it," in announcing Lohan had completed 480 hours of community service at the county morgue and undergone dozens of therapy sessions. Read more...
March 29, 2012
New Pseudoephedrine Is Meth-Resistant
A Missouri pharmaceutical company is developing a new form of allergy and cold medication that law enforcement officials say could be a game changer in the fight to curb the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine. The new drug Tarex, to be marketed under the name Releva, cannot be used to make meth, the company claims. Read more...
Pamela Anderson Okay With Sons Experimenting
Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wrote about her desires for her young ones to "learn to eat right," "honor their instincts," "never bully" and… "We want them to practice safe sex, drink and experiment with drugs in moderation, find true love," the post continued. Read more...
March 28, 2012
Three DUI's in Three Weeks for Florida Teen
A teenager arrested on DUI and drug charges three times within 17 days was ordered held without bail shortly after another judge released her on bail. Circuit Judge Denise Pomponio revoked bail for Kimberly McCarthy, 18, on felony drug charges. McCarthy was arrested February 24 on charges of driving under the influence and possession of Xanax, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. McCarthy said she was high on marijuana each time she was stopped but wasn't drunk. Read more...
Dennis Rodman Broke, Struggling With Alcoholism
Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman is struggling alcoholism and flat broke, his lawyer said in court documents filed in Rodman’s on-going divorce case. Rodman’s ex-wife claims in court papers filed this month in the Superior Court of Orange County, Calif., that the former basketball star owes her $808,935 in unpaid child support for the couple’s two children — ages 9 and 10 — as well as $51,441 in unpaid spousal support, tmz.com reported. Read more...
March 27, 2012
Pot Linked to Trayvon Martin Suspension
Trayvon Martin had been suspended from school for marijuana when the unarmed teenager was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, a family spokesman said. Martin, 17, was suspended by Miami-Dade County schools because traces of marijuana were found in a plastic baggie in his book bag, family spokesman Ryan Julison said. Martin was shot Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman while he was visiting Sanford with his father. Read more...
Bobby Brown Arrested for DUI
Whitney Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown spent a few hours behind bars Monday after his arrest in connection with DUI, police said. Brown, 43, was pulled over in Los Angeles' Reseda neighborhood about 12:20 p.m., when cops spotted him driving while talking on a cell phone without using a hands-free device. Officers conducted a field sobriety test, which Brown allegedly failed, police said. Read more...
March 26, 2012
Red Sox Pitcher Jenks Apologizes Over DUI
Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks has apologized for "distractions" caused by his arrest in Florida on charges of driving under the influence. He was arrested after a sheriff's deputy saw his SUV driving erratically in Fort Myers, Fla. Jenks was released on bail. An arrest report says Jenks told the deputy he took "too many muscle relaxers." The deputy said Jenks was shaking uncontrollably and had a difficult time speaking. Read more...
March 24, 2012
Man Gets 10 Years for DUI
A judge has sentenced a 22-year-old Champaign man to 10 years in prison for a drunken driving crash that nearly killed a 1-year-old boy. Judge Chase Leonhard sentenced Montrell Davis for his conviction on aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol. Davis also was convicted of obstructing justice for lying to police about who was driving. Davis' attorney asked for probation. But in handing down the sentence, the judge criticized Davis, saying he's "unable to admit he did anything wrong." Read more...
El DeBarge Drug Charges Dropped
R&B star El DeBarge will not face charges for his arrest for drug possession earlier this week. The singer was busted by officers in Encino, California and was released on $30,000 bail. The police caught DeBarge and another man in a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction and he was charged with possession with intent to sell. According to official Los Angeles Distict Attorney documents, the case was dropped due to insufficient evidence. The papers say police never gave DeBarge and the other man involved in the transaction a reason for a search, which resulted in them finding a small bag of rock cocaine hidden underneath a nearby car. Read more...
March 23, 2012
Whitney Died From Drowning, Heart Disease, Cocaine Use
The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled that the final cause of Whitney Houston's death was drowning, as well as from effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use. According to Chief Medical Examiner Anthony T. Hernandez's report, there was no foul play involved in the Feb. 11 death of Houston. She was found submerged in a bathtub filled with water at the Beverly Hills Hilton just hours before she was due to perform at Clive Davis' Grammy Party. Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey says the results indicated Houston was a chronic cocaine user. Read more...
March 22, 2012
Singer El DeBarge Arrested on Drug Charge
Grammy-winning singer El DeBarge, who has struggled with substance abuse, was arrested in Encino on suspicion of drug possession with intent to sell, department officials said. Undercover narcotics officers were conducting an investigation near White Oak Avenue and the 101 Freeway when they spotted the singer and another man acting suspiciously, said LAPD spokeswoman Norma Eisenman. Officers recovered narcotics from an area where DeBarge had been standing, Eisenman said. Read more...
Mike Sorrentino Finally Admits Drug Problem
"Jersey Shore" star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino confirmed he is in a drug rehab program "to get control of a prescription medication problem I had due to exhaustion." A statement was posted on the reality-TV personality's official website, after denying online reports that he checked into rehab in Utah. "I have voluntarily taken steps to get control of a prescription medication problem I had due to exhaustion," his statement said. "I have spent the past several weeks getting treatment for this problem and recuperating from my work and appearance schedule." Read more...
March 21, 2012
Fraternity Sued by Parents Over Teen's Drinking Death
The parents of a 19-year-old student who died after binge drinking at a party in Texas have filed suit against a Baylor University fraternity and the bar that hosted the event. Megan Helal was a freshman and volleyball player at Navarro Junior College and was dating a Sigma Chi fraternity member at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, at the time of her death in March 2010. According to the lawsuit, Helal went to a party at Mynar's Bar with her boyfriend to celebrate his fraternity's newest members. Read more...
Meth Mom Sentenced to 6 Years
A 27-year-old California woman, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after her 5-month-old son died from her methamphetamine-tainted breast milk, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Maggie Jean Wortman could have faced up to 11 years for the death of her infant son. Read more...
March 20, 2012
Ex-Model Recaptured for Hollywood-Based Meth Ring
An Australian bikini model and Penthouse Pet accused of running a worldwide drug ring was arrested last week after nearly a month on the lam. Authorities found Simone Farrow hiding at a motel on Queensland's Gold Coast. Farrow, the former face of Ed Hardy swimwear, is accused of trafficking crystal meth around the world, often hiding the drugs in bags of bath salts. She was first arrested in 2009, after the Drug Enforcement Agency raided her Los Angeles apartment and found drugs and incriminating documents Read more...
Brooke Mueller Plea Deal: No Jail Time
Charlie Sheen's ex was arrested in December and charged with felony possession of cocaine under 4 grams, felony possession with intent to distribute, and misdemeanor assault. In exchange for a guilty plea, Aspen, Colo., prosecutors have agreed to drop the last two charges. Additionally, the mother of twins will serve no time. Instead, she will spend the next 12 months on probation with a deferred judgment. Read more...
March 19, 2012
E.R. Docs Don't Recognize Fake Pot Symptoms
As use of synthetic versions of marijuana such as "K2," "Spice," and "Blaze" becomes more common, a growing number of teens are showing up in hospital emergency rooms where physicians are unfamiliar with symptoms caused by the dangerous substances, says a new report. A blend of plant and herbal materials that have been sprayed with chemicals, synthetic marijuana "is still a relatively new drug, and when we started seeing cases, we realized there was very little information available in the medical literature," says Joanna Cohen, an emergency medicine physician. Read more...
March 17, 2012
Invisible Children Founder Arrested
San Diego police say Jason Russell, a co-founder of activist group Invisible Children and one of the creators of the "Kony 2012" video, was detained in Pacific Beach after he was allegedly found masturbating in public and possibly under the influence of alcohol. Police say they received calls reporting that a man running through traffic and screaming, while in "various stages of undress." Officers say when they arrived on the scene the film maker was cooperative. Read more...
March 16, 2012
Constable Arrested on Federal Drug Charges
An East Texas constable arrested on federal drug and firearm charges has appeared before a federal judge in Tyler. The U.S. Attorney's office says authorities arrested Benjamin Thomas Ferrell of Henderson, one week after his indictment. He made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Guthrie Thursday afternoon. Read more...
March 15, 2012
Baby Found After High-Speed Police Chase
A suspected drunk driver was arrested after leading Los Angeles police on a high-speed chase with a baby inside his pickup truck, authorities said. The chase ended when one of the California Highway Patrol cars rammed the male suspect's vehicle in a PIT maneuver on the freeway's off-ramp, video of the incident shows. After the unnamed suspect exited the vehicle and surrendered to police, officers found the infant inside the truck in a child seat. Read more...
Bullpen Catcher Suspended 7 Days for DUI
The Mets say bullpen catcher Eric Langill has been suspended without pay for seven days after being charged in a drunken driving accident Sunday in central Florida. The Mets said in a release that Langill would also be required to seek counseling through the Employee Assistance Program. The 32-year-old Langill was arrested Sunday night after losing control at a traffic circle, crashing into a concrete fountain and flipping his car. Read more...
March 14, 2012
Child, 4, Attacked by Pit Bulls at Meth House
Deputies in central Florida say a 4-year-old girl is recovering days after being bitten by two pit bulls at a home used to make methamphetamine. Osceola County Sheriff's deputies found the girl with injuries to her face, back and head that required more than 50 stitches. Deputies say the child's mother, 29-year-old Desiree Schultz, was arrested on child neglect charges because she didn't report the child's injuries. Read more...
Mom Arrested After Daughter, 11, Pulled Over
Norfolk police say a 32-year-old woman was arrested after she had her 11-year-old daughter drive her and two friends after a night of drinking. A Madison County jailer said Jennifer Etgen, of Tilden, remained in custody. Police Chief Bill Mizner says an officer saw a pickup driven by the girl almost hit a curb. Read more...
Man Jumps Off Bridge to Avoid DWI
A Louisiana man reportedly leaped off a bridge during a traffic stop in an attempt to avoid his eighth arrest on drunken-driving charges. Thomas Robert Harter, 44, of Folsom, La., was arrested on charges of DWI, resisting arrest and careless driving after leaping 20 feet into Lake Pontchartrain during a traffic stop on the Causeway bridge. Read more...
March 13, 2012
Eric Langill Charged With DUI
New York Mets bullpen catcher Eric Langill was arrested by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office and charged with driving under the influence with property damage, a misdemeanor, according to a county arrest affidavit. General manager Sandy Alderson said Langill spent the night in jail but has since posted bond and been released. Langill's white Honda Accord crashed into a concrete fountain in the center of a traffic circle and flipped over. Langill tried to leave the scene on foot but was "kept there" until law enforcement arrived, the report stated. Read more...
Georgia CB Branden Smith Faces Suspension
Georgia starting cornerback Branden Smith was arrested for marijuana possession on his way to the beach for spring break, police and Georgia coach Mark Richt confirmed. Smith was pulled over near Headland, Ala.,on U.S. Highway 431 for following too closely and having a tag light out. An officer detected the odor of marijuana in the 2007 Dodge Charger Smith was driving and a bag of marijuana was discovered under a seat during a search of the vehicle, according to police. Read more...
March 12, 2012
Bill Proposes $100 Bounty on Drunk Drivers
State Sen. Robert Calderon, a Montebello Democrat, has proposed legislation that would give tipsters $100 if they report a drunken driver who is convicted. And for a little poetic justice: Calderon would have the court order the drunken driver to pay the reward. "By engaging civilians to report drunk drivers, this bill would directly and immediately lower the number of roadway deaths," Calderon said about the bill. "Killing or injuring someone as a result of drunk driving is a horrendous crime that can easily be avoided. This bill is one step closer to ensuring that our roads and highways are safe from drunk drivers." Read more...
March 10, 2012
Man Sentenced for 25 DUIs in 3 States
A Virginia Beach man who racked up at least 25 arrests for drunken driving in several states has been sentenced to seven years in prison. A judge sentenced 39-year-old Tracy Michael Decker to seven years. Decker is also banned from driving for 20 years after DUI arrests in Virginia, Alabama and Georgia. Read more...
Tight End Prospect Orson Charles Gets DUI
Former Georgia tight end Orson Charles was arrested for drunken driving early Friday morning, police said. Charles, a 2011 AFCA All-American rated by ESPN Scouts Inc. as the 38th-best prospect overall and No. 2 prospect at tight end in this year's NFL draft, was charged with driving under the influence and impeding traffic flow by Athens-Clarke County Police after being stopped at approximately 3 a.m. Charles submitted to sobriety tests, registered a .095 blood alcohol level and was arrested for DUI. Read more...
March 09, 2012
Pro Golfer Rachel Connor Arrested for DUI
Sheriff's deputies say they caught two professional athletes — golfer Rachel Louise Connor and Ryan Patrick O'Shea, a minor league player with the Baltimore Orioles — driving drunk on Siesta Key. The arrests occurred several hours apart. Connor had been at a restaurant and nightclub. O'Shea had been drinking at the public beach on Siesta. Read more...
March 08, 2012
Video Captures Wrong-Way Ohio Driver
A wrong-way interstate driver slammed into a car full of sorority sisters on spring break about one minute after an Ohio trooper received a report about the errant driver, according to dashboard camera video released by the State Highway Patrol. The footage shows the wrong-way driver seconds before the crash that killed the driver and three of the Bowling Green University students on Interstate 75 south of Toledo. The early morning crash also left two other students in critical condition. Read more...
Pat Robertson Endorses Legalized Marijuana
Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelist - including a voice of the right wing - his newest guise may surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate. "I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. "I've never used marijuana, and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs hasn't succeeded." Read more...
Demi Moore Looks Frail After Rehab
A haunted-looking Demi Moore steps off a plane — the first time she has been seen in public since rehab. The frail Ghost actress, 49, was in the Bahamas after being treated for exhaustion, substance abuse and an eating disorder. She stepped off the swish private jet with close friend Eric Buterbaugh after it touched down in Los Angeles at the weekend. Read more...
March 07, 2012
Navy to Give Breathalyzers to Sailors
The U.S. Navy will start giving Breathalyzer tests to Marines and sailors reporting for duty aboard ships and submarines and at squadrons, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Monday in a worldwide call to forces. The testing is part of a new 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative -- a multi-prong program aimed at reinforcing healthy lifestyles both on and off-duty. The program emphasizes healthy lifestyles through nutrition, responsible alcohol consumption, zero tolerance for drug use and fitness programs as well as suicide prevention, family and personal preparedness and financial planning. Read more...
Reality Star Tila Tequila Hospitalized
Tila Tequila is facing a serious health scare. The reality TV personality reportedly suffered a brain aneurysm that led her to take two bottles of unspecified heavy prescription drugs to ease the pain. However, the drugs she took nearly cost her life, and she had to be hospitalized for two weeks due to overdosing. "Tila threw up all over her bed after overdosing and felt like she was dying. She was screaming for help, and in desperation, broke her bedroom window and attempted to jump out," a source told Radar Online. "Finally a friend came over after getting a strange text from her and found her convulsing on the bed. He called an ambulance and she was taken to the hospital." Read more...
March 06, 2012
Bullies More Likely to Be Substance Users
School officials who are developing anti-bullying programs and policies may also want to incorporate substance abuse prevention measures for those students who are identified as bullies or victims of bullies. That is because those students who are bullies or bullied in middle school are more likely to be substance users in high school. Read more...
1 Dead in Nursing Home Meth Lab Fire
A fire chief in northeast Ohio says a drug lab in the room of a nursing home resident has caused a fire that killed one person and injured six others. Ashtabula fire Chief Ron Pristera says the man died following the fire at Park Haven Nursing Home. He says the lab was making methamphetamine. Pristera says the man was among three residents and two non-residents hospitalized. Two other people were treated at the scene. Read more...
Marijuana Charge Against NFL's Leroy Hill Dropped
The attorney for free agent linebacker and Georgia native Leroy Hill says charges of marijuana possession in Atlanta have been dropped. Hill and a woman were arrested Feb. 25 at his condominium in Atlanta. Police with scent dogs were responding to calls of a marijuana smell. Officers said they confirmed the smell, obtained a search warrant and found partially smoked blunts and marijuana residue inside Hill's residence. The Tacoma News Tribune reports that in a court hearing Monday, Hill's charges were dropped. Hill's lawyer, Edward T. M. Garland, says urine tests taken after the arrest came up negative. Read more...
March 05, 2012
Rockies Pitcher Alex White Arrested for DUI
Rockies pitcher Alex White, 23, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. White was arrested by Scottsdale police at about 9:15 p.m. and released from jail at 10:50 p.m. He spoke with Rockies management and addressed his teammates this morning, apologizing for the incident. White addressed reporters early this afternoon at the Rockies spring training complex at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Read more...
March 03, 2012
Demi Moore: From Rehab to Vacation?
Actress Demi Moore has checked out of an exclusive rehabilitation center in Utah and is now on vacation at an undisclosed location, sources told E! Online. Moore checked into the Cirque Lodge facility in Sundance, Utah, in early February after she was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital semi-conscious and convulsing on Jan. 23, having allegedly smoked an illegal substance. It is believed 49-year-old Moore was smoking illegal K2 spice, a synthetic cannabis, prior to being hospitalized. Read more...
'Five-0's' O'Loughlin Out for Drug Treatment
Hawaii Five-O will be without its top star for a brief time. Alex O'Loughlin, who plays central character Steve McGarrett, will miss at least one episode of the CBS drama while taking a leave to seek prescription drug treatment. "Alex is taking a short break from Hawaii Five-O to receive supervised treatment for prescription pain medication due to a recent shoulder injury," his representative said. Read more...
March 02, 2012
Doctor Accused of Murder in Drug Overdoses
A California doctor under investigation for overprescribing drugs has been charged with murder in the deaths of three of her patients. Dr. Hsui-Ying "Lisa" Tseng was arrested Thursday after a lengthy probe which involved undercover work by drug enforcement agents who posed as patients to obtain prescriptions from her. Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says Tseng is accused of second-degree murder and other crimes in the deaths of three men in their 20s, one of them a University of Arizona student. Read more...
March 01, 2012
Meth Head Charged for Burning Iconic Tree
Florida cops have busted a 26-year-old meth head they believe set a massive brush fire that burned down one of the oldest trees in the United States last month, according to local reports. Sara Barnes, 26, of Winter Park, was arrested and charged with setting the blaze that destroyed a 3,500-year-old bald cypress, known as "The Senator," at Big Tree Park in Longwood, north of Orlando, last month. Read more...
Lindsay Lohan Says Partying 'Not Her Thing'
Lindsay Lohan says the partying just doesn't appeal to her anymore. In an interview with Today's Matt Lauer, Lohan says, "That's not my thing anymore. I went out, actually, a few months ago with a friend. And I was so uncomfortable. Not because I felt tempted, just because it was just the same thing that it always was before. And it just wasn't fun for me. I've become more of a homebody. And I like that." Read more...
February 29, 2012
Rodney King Gets House Arrest for Reckless Driving
Rodney King has been sentenced to 20 days of house arrest and fined $500 for misdemeanor reckless driving in Southern California. The 46-year-old King was arrested in Moreno Valley seven months ago for investigation of drunken driving. But Riverside County prosecutors say his blood-alcohol reading was 0.06 percent, which is below the 0.08 legal threshold. He also had a trace of marijuana in his system. Read more...
February 28, 2012
Nate Collins Arrested on Drug Charges
Jaguars defensive lineman Nate Collins was arrested for marijuana possession in Warrenton, Virginia. Collins, a former University of Virginia player, spent the last two seasons in Jacksonville and will be an exclusive right's free agent this offseason. He played in 12 games in 2011 registering a half a sack and one pass defended. Collins was pulled over by a Virginia state trooper for illegal window tint, the officer noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the car and "found a duffle bag with marijuana joints in the trunk." Read more...
Leroy Hill Arrested for Marijuana Possession
Free agent linebacker Leroy Hill was arrested by police in Atlanta for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. According to a statement from Atlanta police on Monday, Hill was arrested early Saturday after officers were called to an Atlanta condominium following a complaint about a marijuana odor. Officers say they confirmed the smell, obtained a search warrant and found partially smoked blunts and marijuana residue inside. Read more...
February 24, 2012
Rays Outfielder Jailed on Drug Charges
Former Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes was arrested after he tried to eat a plastic bag of marijuana and had marijuana blunt tucked behind his ear, police said. The 27-year-old Tampa man was pulled over in his orange 2011 Chevrolet Camaro after he committed a traffic violation, an officer wrote in an arrest report. Police said after the pulled Dukes over, they noticed a small bag of marijuana on his lap. He then tried to dispose of the marijuana by sticking it in his mouth as if he was going to ingest it. Read more...
Dad Who Let 9-Year-Old Drive Gets Probation
A Detroit-area man who allowed his 9-year-old daughter to drive him around because he had been drinking was sentenced to two years of probation. Shawn Weimer pleaded guilty in December to second-degree child abuse and allowing an unlicensed minor to operate a motor vehicle. Weimer was arrested Oct. 8 when police pulled over his van and found the girl behind the wheel. Surveillance video from a Brownstown Township gas station shows the 39-year-old bragging about his daughter's driving skills. Read more...
Pirates President Facing DUI Charges
Pittsburgh Pirates president Frank Coonelly faces four drunken driving-related charges after an incident on Dec. 22 in suburban Pittsburgh. Police in Ross Township, Pa., charged Coonelly, 51, with one count each of drunken driving, driving the wrong way, careless driving and driving with a blood-alcohol content of at least twice the state's legal limit of .08. Read more...
Brooke Mueller Charged With Felony Possession
Brooke Mueller has been formally charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The charges stem from her arrest in Aspen Colorado on December 2nd last year. Prosecutors have filed one count against the troubled ex-wife of Charlie Sheen, for possessing more than four grams of cocaine, which could land her in prison for up to six years. Read more...
February 23, 2012
Officer Sentenced for Evidence Room Drug Thefts
A veteran New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to three years in state prison for stealing cocaine from an evidence room under his control. Albert Annuzzi, who took the drugs for personal use, must serve at least two years of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for parole. He also forfeited his pension and will be barred from public employment in New Jersey. Read more...
Drug Test Cost Dodgers' Ronald Belisario a Season
Back with the Dodgers after a yearlong absence, reliever Ronald Belisario said Wednesday that he was prevented from entering the United States last year because he tested positive for cocaine. The positive drug test also resulted in a 25-game suspension issued by Major League Baseball that Belisario will serve at the start of the upcoming season. Read more...
DUI Charges Against Hines Ward Dropped
Prosecutors in DeKalb County, Ga., dropped drunken driving charges against Steelers receiver Hines Ward after he pleaded guilty to reckless driving. Ward also pleaded no contest to failure to maintain his lane. Judge Stacey Hydrick sentenced him to a year of probation, 80 hours of community service and alcohol evaluation and treatment, if it is recommended. He also must participate in a risk reduction program. Read more...
February 22, 2012
Lindsay Lohan's Probation Nears End
Lindsay Lohan's probation should end next month, clearing the way for the actress to revive her acting career possibly playing Elizabeth Taylor in a made-for-TV movie. Lohan appears in court Wednesday for a judge to check her progress, but she's gotten glowing probation reports for the last two months. Lohan's "on the home stretch" to completing her 480 hours of community service -- most of it cleaning up at the Los Angeles County morgue -- on schedule next month, her publicist Steve Honig said. Read more...
February 21, 2012
Woman Charged With DWI Going 100 MPH
A Leicester woman was charged with felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired after city police determined she exceeded 100 mph before a fatal wreck last month. The charges against Sarah Elizabeth Morris, 27, stem from a Jan. 16 accident in which her passenger, 30-year-old Michelle Crabtree, died at the scene of the single-vehicle wreck. Police say Morris was driving in excess of 100 mph in her 2011 Hyundai while on Interstate 240 east. When she entered the curve of the off ramp, she was unable to maintain the roadway at that speed, according to police. Read more...
Former Western Michigan Star Arrested for DUI
A former basketball standout at Country Day and Western Michigan was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of DUI in Bellevue, Neb. Carrie Moore, who led the country in scoring in 2007 with the Broncos, is an assistant coach with Creighton. According to multiple media reports, including KETV-TV in Omaha, Neb., Moore was found asleep behind the wheel of her car in a McDonald's drive thru around 2:50 a.m. Read more...
February 20, 2012
Meth Case Involves 3 Generations of 1 Family
It's a generational thing: Deputies in Florida say a man, his daughter and his grandson, along with a fourth person said to be a family relative, are accused of working together to manufacture methamphetamine. Dixie County Sheriff's officials said 54-year-old Allen J. Brannin, his 34-year-old daughter, Amy M. Brannin, and her 18-year-old son, Austin J. Brannin, were arrested. Another relative, 18-year-old Tyler W. Cannon, was also arrested. Read more...
Robin Thicke Arrested for Marijuana Possession
Robin Thicke is singing the blues. The R&B singer was arrested for possession of marijuana in New York City. Thicke, 34, was arrested by officers who saw him smoking a joint in a black Cadillac Escalade. The singer was in the car with another person, but only Thicke was arrested. "He wasn't driving," a police source tells the newspaper. "He was sitting in the car. He was arrested and a small amount of marijuana was recovered on him." Read more...
February 17, 2012
Paul McCartney Giving Up Marijuana
The Beatles musician has smoked the herbal drug since The Beatles's hey day in the 60s, but has given up marijuana so he can be a better parent to his eight-year-old daughter, Beatrice, his child with ex-wife Heather Mills. He told Rolling Stone magazine: "I did a lot, and it was enough. I smoked my share. When you're bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in. Enough's enough - you just don't seem to think it's necessary." Read more...
February 16, 2012
Student Sues School Over Strip Search
A Georgia middle school student claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday he was humiliated and traumatized when he was brought to a vice principal's office and forced to strip in front of classmates who said he had marijuana. The student, then in the seventh-grade, said he still suffers from emotional distress because his classmates taunted him by calling him Superman, the underwear he was wearing when he was strip-searched. The student is suing the Clayton County school district for unspecified punitive and compensatory damages. Read more...
Drug Bust Nabs 17 TCU Students
Seventeen students, including four football players, were arrested in a drug bust at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, school officials said. At a news conference, officials said those arrested sold drugs to undercover narcotics officers both on and off campus during a six-month investigation. "There is no doubt all of those arrested today are drug dealers," said Steve McGee, TCU chief of police, according to NBCDFW.com. "These individuals engaged in hand-to-hand delivery, for money, with undercover narcotics agents." Read more...
February 15, 2012
Doctor Gets Life in Deadly Pill Mill Case
A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced lllinois doctor Paul H. Volkman to four life terms in prison for his conviction in the drug overdose deaths of four patients. U.S. District Court Judge Sandra Beckwith imposed the sentences in Cincinnati, along with sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years on 13 other drug-trafficking related counts. Read more...
February 13, 2012
Ditka Son's DUI Arrest Quashed
The Lake County State's Attorney's Office has until Feb. 24 to decide to go forward with the felony DUI case against a son of former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka. The attorney for Michael Ditka, 50, of Deerfield said "the state is going to be hard pressed to go further" after a Lake County judge Thursday quashed the arrest. Ditka was charged with felony DUI after he was arrested for drunk driving on April 20, 2011, in the parking lot of the Deerfield apartment complex where he lives. His vehicle was parked at the time of his arrest, according to his attorney, Robert Ritacca. Read more...
February 11, 2012
Native Americans Sue Beer Companies
A Native American tribe has sued some of the world's largest beer makers, claiming they knowingly contributed to alcohol problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties. Read more...
February 10, 2012
Mexican Troops Seize 15 Tons of Meth
Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican army said in a statement. The find was more than four times the size of a major seizure last summer of 3.4 tons and more than twice the total amount of the drug seized in Mexico in 2009, according to United Nations statistics. Soldiers discovered the huge cache in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, a suburb of Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara. Read more...
Traffic Stop Leads to 'Suge' Knight's Arrest
Marion "Suge" Knight, former head of Death Row Records, was arrested for possessing marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday, Las Vegas Police said. A record check during the traffic stop revealed that Knight, 46, had three outstanding warrants in Las Vegas related to traffic offenses, Meltzer said. The patrol officer then found marijuana in Knight's possession, she said. Read more...
Red Sox Pitcher Boyd Admits Cocaine Use
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd's new tell-all book, "They Call Me Oil Can: My Life in Baseball,'' which hits bookstores in June, should be a blockbuster if the stories are similar to what the former Red Sox pitcher told WBZ's Jon Miller. Boyd, who spent eight of his 10 major league seasons with the Red Sox, admitted he was under the influence of cocaine two-thirds of the time he was on the mound. "Oh yeah, at every ballpark,'' he said. "There wasn't one ballpark that I probably didn't stay up all night, until four or five in the morning, and the same thing is still in your system. It's not like you have time to go do it while in the game, which I had done that." Read more...
February 09, 2012
49ers Ray McDonald Arrested on Warrant
49ers defensive end Ray McDonald was arrested after police discovered an outstanding arrest warrant during a route traffic stop. McDonald was arrested and subsequently released. According to reports, McDonald had a $7,500 arrest warrant issued in his name on August 9, 2011. The warrant was related to his 2010 arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence. In handling that case, McDonald was reportedly required to attend a first offender's class that anyone convicted of a DUI must take. The warrant was issued when he reportedly failed to submit proof that he attended the class. Read more...
February 08, 2012
Mom Guilty in Meth Breast Milk Case
Authorities are cracking down on parents who place their children in danger while being involved in drug use and activity. Many states have passed laws increasing penalties for drug use and possession when children are present and even drunk driving penalties are enhanced if a child is endangered. Now a 27-year-old California woman has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the death of her infant, who died after she breastfed him while using methamphetamine. Read more...
February 07, 2012
Broncos RB Knowshon Moreno Popped for DUI
Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno was arrested for drunk driving in Denver earlier this month ... and in an ironic twist of fate, cops say the license plate on his ride read "SAUCED." According to the Denver PD, 24-year-old Moreno was driving his convertible Bentley on Feb. 1 when he was pulled over for doing 70 in a 45 in a construction zone. Police say Moreno smelled like booze and when he performed poorly on a field sobriety test, they arrested him for DUI. Read more...
Randy Travis Arrested for Public Intoxication
Country singer Randy Travis has apologized after being arrested on a charge of public intoxication outside a North Texas church. Denton County sheriff's spokesman Tom Reedy says police in the town of Sanger arrested Travis after spotting a vehicle parked in front of a church and finding an open bottle of wine and Travis smelling of alcohol. The singer, who lives in the small town of Tioga near Sanger, apologized in a statement, "for what resulted following an evening of celebrating the Super Bowl." Read more...
February 06, 2012
Drunk Driver Gets 20 Years for Nun's Death
Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano, 24, was sentenced in Prince William County court to 20 years in prison for causing the crash that killed Sister Denise Mosier, 66, and badly injured Sister Connie Ruth Lupton, 77. The case sparked national outrage, becoming a touchstone in the debate about illegal immigration. Martinelly-Montano, originally from Bolivia, had two drunken-driving convictions, and a deportation hearing had been scheduled before the crash. He was convicted of felony murder and other charges. Read more...
Demi Moore Reportedly Seeking Rehab
A source confirms to Us Weekly that the actress -- who suffered a seizure after smoking an "incense-like substance" on January 23 -- has entered rehab, and began receiving treatment late last week. E! News reports Moore is being treated in Utah, for an eating disorder and addiction issues. "She's on total lockdown and only talking to a small group of people," a source said. Read more...
February 04, 2012
Radcliffe: I'm Drunk in Some 'Harry Potter' Scenes
Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the "Harry Potter" movies during a period in his life where he was drinking "nightly," the young star said in an interview. "I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem. People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. It was bad. I don't want to go into details, but I drank a lot and it was daily -- I mean nightly," Radcliffe said. Read more...
Griffin O'Neal Gets 16 Months in DUI Case
Griffin O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal, was sentenced to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to drunk driving and weapons possession in an auto accident last year that injured another driver. O'Neal, 47, a resident of northern San Diego County, had cocaine, marijuana, Xanax and amphetamines in his system when the accident occurred in August, according to court documents. He also had a handgun and shotgun in his possession. He was on probation at the time for a 2007 drunk driving conviction. Read more...
February 03, 2012
'Star Trek' Actor Brooks Charged With DUI
A lead actor on the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" television series has been charged with driving under the influence in Connecticut. Avery Brooks is set to be arraigned in state court in Norwalk in connection with his arrest in Wilton, a wealthy suburb about 50 miles northeast of Manhattan. He played Capt. Benjamin Sisko on the 1990s "Star Trek" series and had the role of Hawk on "Spenser: For Hire" in the 1980s. Read more...
Leslie Carter Suffered Apparent Overdose
Leslie Carter, the 25-year-old sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, suffered an apparent overdose and had been taking medication for depression, according to a police report. Leslie, who was an aspiring singer, died in upstate New York. An official cause of death is pending toxicology tests. Her stepmother, Ginger Carter, told authorities that Leslie had "a long history of mental illness" and seemed depressed the morning before she died, according to an incident report from the Chautauqua County sheriff. Read more...
February 02, 2012
Teen Overdosed on 'Date Rape' Drug
A 14-year-old Northern California girl who died during a sleepover party last summer overdosed on a chemical found in so-called "date rape" drugs, but it's unclear how she got the drug, authorities said. Takeimi Rao died in July from drinking a fatal dose of Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid or GHB, which has become popular among young people at dance clubs and raves, Sonoma County Sheriff's Lt. Dennis O'Leary said. Read more...
Child Star Taran Noah Smith Popped for DUI, Drugs
Former "Home Improvement" sitcom star Taran Noah Smith is all grown up -- but the ex-actor apparently still has some room for personal improvement when it comes to parallel parking and alleged drug use. Police in Burbank, Calif., arrested Smith, 27, in connection with driving under the influence and drug possession. Smith, who played the youngest son on the 1990s TV show "Home Improvement," had stopped his car at an odd angle in front of a fire hydrant, police told the Times. That aroused officers' suspicions, but an incriminating smell led to Smith's arrest. When officers approached Taran Noah Smith's car, it was stopped at a hydrant with its engine still running, the Times reports. Officers picked up on the familiar smell of marijuana. Read more...
Drugs May Have Played Role In Leslie Carter's Death
A little over a day ago, reality television personality and aspiring singer Leslie Carter was found unconscious by family members. Authorities rushed to the scene, but by the time they arrived, nothing could be done. The twenty-five year old was pronounced dead shortly thereafter, and her family released a statement asking for privacy. According to TMZ, Leslie had been battling a very serious prescription drug addiction for some time. Read more...
February 01, 2012
Apartment Raid Turns Up $7.5 Million in Pot
Cops raided a New York apartment building and found it had been turned into a pot farm. Acting on a tip, police broke down the door and discovered a staggering 600 marijuana-growing pots. They filled all of the top four floors of the five-story building. "It was like a pot farm in there," one law enforcement source said. "They were using enough electricity, grow lights and such to power an entire city block." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/31/marijuana-worth-75m-found-over-four-floors-new-york-apartment-building/#ixzz1l6rrhZPS
January 31, 2012
Police Want Help to Spot Drugged Drivers
With prescription drug abuse increasing at epidemic levels, a corresponding rise in the number of drugged drivers on the highways has resulted. The problem has grown so rapidly that it has outpaced both the technology and the ability law enforcement officers to identify and deal with the danger. Read more...
Ryan Merriman's DUI Charge Now Official
Actor Ryan Merriman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, stemming from his arrest in November 2011. The Final Destination 3 star was driving through Newport Beach, California when his car was stopped by police for a traffic violation. Officers suspected he was intoxicated and took him into custody. Now Merriman has been officially charged with two counts of DUI. Read more...
Bengals' Simpson Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges
Jerome Simpson spent the beginning of Super Bowl XLVI week in Kenton Circuit Court answering a drug charge. The Bengals wide receiver pleaded not guilty to one count of trafficking marijuana in excess of eight ounces, a felony punishable by one to five years in prison. Simpson remained free after Judge Gregory Bartlett gave him until Tuesday to post a $2,500 bond. Next hearing in case is set for Feb. 20. Read more...
January 30, 2012
Police Seek Help on Drugged Driving
The federal government should help police departments nationwide obtain the tools and training needed to attack a rising scourge of driving under the influence, two U.S. senators said. Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Mark Pryor of Arkansas proposed that federal funding in a pending transportation funding bill be used for research and to train police. They said police have no equipment and few have training in identifying drugged drivers, who don't show the same outward signs of intoxication as drunken drivers do, such as slurred speech. Read more...
Town Famous for Celebrity Drug Busts
Nestled among the few remaining businesses that dot a rundown highway in this dusty West Texas town stands what's become a surprise destination for marijuana-toting celebrities: the Hudspeth County Jail. Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and actor Armie Hammer have been among the thousands of people busted for possession at a Border Patrol checkpoint outside town in recent years, bringing a bit of notoriety to one of Texas' most sparsely populated counties. Read more...
49ers' Aldon Smith Charged With DUI
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was charged Saturday with driving under the influence in Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County jail records show Smith was booked and held on $1,000 bond. A Miami-Dade County Corrections spokeswoman said Smith was arrested by Miami Beach police. Read more...
January 28, 2012
4-Year-Old Brings Nine Bags of Pot to School
A 4-year-old boy brought nine bags of pot to his elementary school and pulled them out during snack time, police said. A teacher at Hanover Elementary School in Meriden, Conn., alerted officials to the drug. Detective Lt. Mark Walerysiak, a police spokesman, said that the child turned over the bags to his teacher. Read more...
Kim Richards Admits She's an Alcoholic
Kim Richards has finally revealed the reason behind her trip to a rehab facility in early December. The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast-member admitted to her alcohol addiction in upcoming, three-part second season reunion episode, in which she was interviewed separately from the rest of the cast. Kim Richards, whose erratic behavior on the reality TV show led many to assume that it was the fallout with younger sister Kyle that led her to seek professional help, confessed for the first time on the show's reunion episode that she was being treated for alcoholism during her stint in rehab. Read more...
Demi Moore 911 Call: 'She Smoked Something'
"Send an ambulance right now. This is an emergency." So begins the dramatic 911 call, in which Demi Moore's friends are desperately trying to get an ambulance to the actress' Beverly Hills home as quickly as possible, which was released this morning by the Los Angeles Fire Department. "She smoked something. It's not marijuana but it's similar to incense. She seems to be having convulsions of some sort," the caller said. Read more...
January 27, 2012
Pat Sajak Admits Boozing Before 'Wheel' Tapings
The "Wheel of Fortune" wasn't the only thing spinning for Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day. Sajak said in an interview on ESPN2 this week that the longtime game show team occasionally would walk over to a nearby restaurant for "two or three or six" margaritas during a break in taping early "Wheel of Fortune" shows in California. They would "have trouble recognizing the alphabet" during the tapings that followed, he said. Read more...
January 26, 2012
Mixed Results in Annual Drug Survey
The annual Monitoring the Future survey brought mixed results for parents and health officials concerned about preventing youth substance abuse. Alcohol and cigarette use is at a historic low among 8th, 10th and 12th graders, but marijuana and prescription drug use has increased. Read more...
Detroit Lions' Culbreath Arrested on Drug Charges
A former S.C. State University and current Detroit Lions offensive tackle was arrested at an Orangeburg hotel on a drug-related charge. Listed as a resident of both Lawrence, Ga., and Detroit, Johnny C. Culbreath was charged with simple possession of marijuana. The 23-year-old NFL rookie went before Orangeburg County Magistrate Richard Murray later Monday, where he paid a fine of $412 to end the case. Read more...
Son of Oral Roberts Arrested on DUI Charge
Richard Roberts, the son of the late evangelist Oral Roberts, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper stopped the 63-year-old just past midnight driving 93 miles per hour in his Mercedes-Benz. According to the arrest report, Roberts failed a breathalyzer and field sobriety test. Read more...
January 25, 2012
Meth Shakers Overwhelm Burn Units
A new method of making methamphetamine is so volatile that hospital burn units have become so overwhelmed with injured patients - many without insurance - to the point that some of the unit have been forced to shut down. The new 'Shake and Bake' method of producing meth in a 2-liter soda bottle has exploded in the face of thousands of victims, according to a survey by The Associated Press. Up to one-third of all burn patients in hospitals in the top meth-producing states are would-be meth makers. Read more...
Whitney Houston Reportedly 'Flat Broke'
She's about to make her big screen comeback in the remake of Sparkle with popstar Jordin Sparks but Whitney Houston is reportedly 'broke'. The 48-year-old singer - who has overcome crack cocaine addiction - has allegedly spent all of her fortune, including a reported $100 million record deal. Whitney is being financially supported by her record label Arista, which has given her an advance payment on her next album, according to reports. Read more...
January 24, 2012
Woman Hosted 'Kegger' Before 3 Teens Crashed
A prosecutor will seek a prison term for a western Pennsylvania woman who has pleaded guilty to serving a half-keg of beer to teen guests at her son's graduation party, before three of them were killed in a crash about a mile away. Susan Sanders-Watt, 60, of Greensburg, pleaded guilty to four counts each of corruption of minors and reckless endangerment and 17 citations of serving alcohol to minors. Read more...
Meth Fills Hospitals With Burn Patients
A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units. So-called shake-and-bake meth is produced by combining raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. But if the person mixing the noxious brew makes the slightest error, such as removing the cap too soon or accidentally perforating the plastic, the concoction can explode, searing flesh and causing permanent disfigurement, blindness or even death. Read more...
Sam Hurd to Fight Drug Distribution Charges
Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd has hired new attorneys to defend him against accusations that he tried to establish a drug-dealing network. Hurd, 26, will plead not guilty this week to charges that he tried to buy large quantities of cocaine and marijuana, said his new attorneys, Michael McCrum of San Antonio and Jay Ethington of Dallas. Authorities say they caught Hurd telling an undercover agent that he and a co-conspirator already distributed cocaine throughout the Chicago area and needed more supply. Read more...
January 23, 2012
Man Arrested for Third DUI in Five Days
San Diego County Sheriff's Department deputies have arrested the same man three times in five days on suspicion of drunk driving. In the latest incident, deputies responded to a report of a drunken driver and by the time they arrived found David Lakarnafeaux in a nearby bar having another beer. Read more...
