Police officials in Kent County will be increasing their DUI patrols over the St. Patrick's Day holiday in order to prevent people from drinking and driving. Between March 8 and March 19, there will be additional law enforcement patrols on the road in order to arrest those who are driving under ...

The Washington State Patrol recently announced that it has made 1,200 arrests on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol for the first quarter of the new year. The Washington State Patrol has made over 36,000 traffic arrests in total. Most drivers were arrested for speeding or violatin...

Recently, defense attorneys in Florida have been using a legal loophole to have Intoxilyzer test results thrown out of court and DUI cases dropped. This defense argument was even upheld in Florida's Supreme Court. Laws state that a breath test's results can only be used as evidence in a court of...

All over the country, states are discussing stricter boating laws, and a new law has been passed in Iowa that lowers the legal blood-alcohol content for boaters to .08. This is the same legal limit for drunk drivers. A stipulation of the law is that the boat has to be moving in order for a perso...

A police sergeant in Seattle that was arrested last month for driving under the influence has claimed that his most recent drink before the arrest was nearly 5 hours before. The 41-year-old officer was asleep when a friend dropped him off around 5 a.m., he claims that he was asleep for some time...

A 51-year-old man from Kirkland was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for causing an accident last summer that killed two teenagers. The man had been driving his SUV down I-5 when he crashed into a vehicle that was disabled and parked on the side of the highway. Two 18-year-old high school stud...

The Seattle Municipal Court recently announced that they will no longer be sentencing  DUI offenders to jail time. Instead, DUI offenders will be sentenced to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet on their ankles to ensure that they are not drinking. The switch came about when court officials deci...

A 24-year-old woman was recently arrested in Auburn and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and hitting a police officer's patrol car. The accident occurred on Highway 167 at 3 a.m. A police officer had pulled over a 36-year-old woman for a suspected DUI. After the officer put th...

A 44-year-old man from Seattle recently faced sentencing from a judge for injuring an officer while he was driving drunk. The accident occurred on December 13, 2009 in Sea-Tac. The 44-year-old man was driving a 1989 Toyota Corolla when he slammed into a police car that was parked on the side of ...

Police officers in Wenatchee, Washington will be participating in “Operation Dry Water” from June 24-26. This operation will crack down on people who boat while under the influence of alcohol. During the operation, officers will be patrolling the Washington-area lakes and oceans more often, as w...