Seattle Seahawks' fullback player Spencer Ware was recently arrested and charged in Seattle for driving while intoxicated, a report on NWCN.com stated on Monday, January 13. According to police reports, the incident happened on January 12 when the 22-year-old footballer was pulled over by a stat...

Former child actress, Tami Erin, was recently apprehended in Los Angeles and charged for drunk driving. Erin, best known for playing the title character in “The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking,” was arrested on Saturday, December 14. Once authorities caught her and administered a sobriety ...

Retired NBA superstar, Tom Chambers was pulled over by police on Saturday, December 7 under suspicion of drunk driving. The incident occurred when Scottsdale Police saw the vehicle of the 54-year-old former Phoenix Suns forward swerving into a bike lane. Chambers was stopped, arrested, and later...

A woman who was involved in a car crash that killed one person and injured three others was sentenced to imprisonment due to being found guilty of driving under the influence on Friday, November 22. According to reports, 43-year-old Kelly Ann Hudson was sentenced to 130 months of imprisonment in...

Mark Mullen was arrested for a March 25 car accident that claimed the lives of Judy and Dennis Schulte. Judy and Dennis Schulte, both retired teachers, were crossing the street when they were hit by Mullen's truck. They died immediately at the scene. Two other members of the Schulte family sustai...

A fatal car accident in Seattle resulted in the death of one young woman and the injuries of two others on Halloween, according to KING 5. Reports show that the accident happened on Highway 20 of Oak Harbor when sisters Janeah and Janesah Goheen, both 17-years-old, together with friend Alysha Pi...

Kitsap County Deputy Prosecutor Barbara O. Dennis was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a rear-end collision that occurred in Poulsbo on October 9. Dennis was taken by the Washington State Patrol to Kitsap County Jail where she was later released after posting bail. The...

Police arrested former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar for driving under the influence in Cleveland on Sunday, September 29. According to a police statement, 49-year old Kosar was driving alone in his vehicle when he was stopped about 2:45 a.m. for speeding. The police officers smelled alcohol a...

DUI charges filed against Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2011 were dismissed by Texas prosecutors on Monday, September 9. According to Parker County, Texas Prosecutor John Forest, the suspension of the Texas Highway patrol trooper who carried out the arrest prompted the prosecution to drop the c...

The son of former Washington, D.C. mayor and incumbent councilman Marion Barry was arrested and charged with driving under the influence (DUI) and marijuana possession in Virginia on Friday night, August 16. According to investigators, police apprehended 33-year-old Marion Christopher Barry after...

Seafair, Seattle's month-long annual celebration, kicks off with Seafair weekend from August 2nd-4th. With a wide range of different events and activities for Washington residents of all ages to enjoy, the activity is sure to draw thousands to the Seattle area, including boaters looking to enjoy ...

Boating under the influence of alcohol (BUI) has been a criminal offense in Washington for quite some time, but new changes to BUI laws will significantly increase the penalties for this act. Effective July 28th, the fines for BUI will increase from $1,000 to up to $5,000 and criminal penalties m...

A bill that was passed into law during a signing ceremony at the Tacoma Washington State Patrol headquarters on Thursday, July 18 will make drivers charged with driving under the influence in Washington face stiffer penalties. The DUI bill, signed by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, will require ...

The drunk driver responsible for the death of another driver in a fatal crash last April pleaded guilty on June 21. A 10-year imprisonment term was recommended by King County prosecutors against 25-year-old Michael Robertson after he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide regarding the accident in...

Television series actor Cody Longo was arrested in Los Angeles for driving under the influence after motorists noticed him driving aggressively, early in the morning of June 6. The 25-year-old star of Nickelodeon Hollywood Heights was pulled over by authorities after they noticed him flashing li...

A former NBA player was jailed after being charged with vehicular homicide. The charge stems from a car accident that he caused in Atlanta on May 31. Ex-NBA All-Star Daron “Mookie” Blaylock surrendered on June 10 after being involved in a fatal car accident that killed a 43-year-old woman in Jon...

Three DUI arrests were made by state troopers in a span of almost two hours on Fairgrounds Road in Central Kitsap in the early morning of May 11. The first arrest happened at about 2 a.m. when a trooper chased a car driven by 25-year-old man on Bucklin Hill Road who refused to pull over. The car...

Washington State recently introduced harsh new DUI laws that include prolonged jail terms and a 24 hour alcohol monitoring system. The new DUI laws were proposed in regular session by Gov. Jay Inslee with a bipartisan group of lawmakers and include a mandatory six months jail term for repeat dru...

Two people died and two others are in critical condition in Seattle after they were struck by a vehicle driven by a man allegedly under the influence. Seattle police said retired teachers Dennis Schulte, 66, and his wife Judy, 68, were walking together with their daughter-in-law Karina Ulriksen-...

Recently, a man was arrested under suspicion of DUI after his car hit a motorcycle heading southbound West of Lynnwood. Washington State Patrol Trooper Mark Francis said Toby Toro, 20, was arrested after his car pinned a motorcycle on I-5 near 44th Avenue. The 29-year-old motorcyclist from Seatt...

A bus driver suspected of driving under the influence was arrested after he hit a pedestrian in downtown Seattle earlier this month. The 32-year-old man who was hit by the bus became disoriented, but left the scene with non-life threatening injuries. Medics later found him on Fourth Avenue and P...

The King County prosecutor's office released more information on the death of a local wakeboarder that occurred last summer. According to reports, the boat's operator was arrested on suspicion of BUI after the death of wakeboarder he was pulling, Nate Bahner 33, but it does not appear that the o...

On Friday morning, two Seattle Police detectives were injured in a car accident with a drunk driver. The detectives, who are part of the SPD gang unit, were in an unmarked patrol car at the time of the accident. The drunk driver, a 42-year-old woman, was operating a Volkswagon Beetle around 2 a....

A recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that drinking and driving for high school teenagers has decreased by more than 50 percent in the last 20 years. In 1991, high school students who were at least 16 years of age were surveyed to determine how often ...

On August 24, a Maryland lawmaker was involved in a boating accident that left four children injured. The accident happened after the lawmaker admitted that he had been consuming alcohol before operating his boat. He allegedly lost control of the boat, and crashed into a vessel that contained se...