Alameda County used video cameras while making arrests over the New Year weekend. County roads during the holiday weekend will be monitored by police and five deputies wore video cameras attached to their uniforms and they were turned on during field sobriety tests. The cameras were donated to ...

A rookie tackle for the Washington Redskins was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs on Monday morning. The 25-year-old player was arrested and in custody, but it was not confirmed it was him until his booking photo was matched with his photo on the Redskin's roster. The...

Washington State Patrol has teamed up with local police forces in order to emphasize an anti-drunk driving campaign. The campaign is called the “Night of 1,000 Stars” because over 1,000 police officers will be out patrolling the area to keep an extra eye out for drunken drivers. Officials in Sn...

Seattle area law enforcement departments have announced that they will be stepping up their traffic patrol efforts over the weekend in honor of the Night of 1,000 Stars.  The Night of 1,000 Stars has been held annually for 20 years by police departments in Washington to represent the number of on...

Washington State Patrol arrested a man after a pickup truck accident in Jefferson County. The driver was charged with driving under the influence as a result of the accident. The accident occurred on U.S. Highway 101 when a 27-year-old man was heading southbound down Highway 101 and his pickup t...

A man was arrested for suspicion of DUI after a routine stop for not wearing his seat belt on I-5 in Seattle. According to State Patrol, the 31-year-old man was pulled over around 8 a.m. on the Yesler Way exit. The man was pulled over when the police officer saw that he was not wearing a seat be...

An ex-NFL player, Reggie Rogers, is facing is sixth DUI in Washington. The 46-year-old was arrested and put into jail in Pierce County under the suspicion that he was driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. Details of the arrest have not been released at this time. His...

A woman has plead not guilty in a DUI crash that ended with her hitting a group of pedestrians. According to police, the 43-year-old woman has a blood alcohol level of 0.29 when she was arrested after hitting a group of seven pedestrians last month. The people were standing outside of SoDo night...

A defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks has been arrested for an investigation of a DUI. The arrest occurred just hours before the team was scheduled to hit the road to take on the Arizona Cardinals. Raheem Brock, was stopped by a Washington State Trooper in the early hours of Saturday. Brock p...

A suspected drunken driver crashed into a bus shelter in Columbia City causing him to suffer life threatening injuries. According to police, the driver of a Ford Explorer was speeding when he lost control of the SUV and went up on the sidewalk striking a metal bus shelter. This caused the SUV t...

A Seattle woman was arrested last Thursday for a suspected drunken driving charge after she ran her pickup truck through a group pedestrians that were walking across the street. Four woman and one man were leaving a Seattle night club when the pickup truck hit them at the intersection of S. Mass...

A 23-year-old woman has been arrested in suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular assault after she was involved in an accident in Mount Vernon. The 23-year-old woman was driving a Ford Van on memorial highway when her van collided with a motorcycle that was stopped for traffic. T...

A man from Fort Lewis has been charged with felony drunken driving charges after police found him passed out behind the wheel. Witnesses claim that they spotted the man passed out behind the driver's seat in his vehicle around 1:40 a.m. The witness then told detectives that they tapped the windo...

The law firm of Cowan Kirk and Gaston has recently announced that Ted Vosk has been invited to speak at this year's American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual conference in Chicago. The title of the workshop is “Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Evidence: Extrapolation, Interpretation and Test...

A panel of judges has decided that breathalyzer tests can now be used when prosecuting alleged drunken drivers as long as the tests have had further requirements done to them. Two years ago it was ruled that results from breathalyzer tests were no longer allowed to be used in court because it wa...

According to a Seattle Police report, a woman was injured while riding her bicycle after she was hit by a car that was driven by a suspected drunk driver. The accident occurred during the early hours of Saturday at the intersection of 10th East Ave and East Lynn. The roadway where the accident o...

A man was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence and vehicular assault after running a red light and collided with another vehicle causing two people to be sent to the hospital. According to the police report, the man was driving east on S. Ryan Way when he failed to stop at a red li...

A Seattle Police officer was convicted in  DUI case that he was arrested for last year. When the officer was arrested he asked the state trooper that pulled him over “Are you sure you want to do this?' as he handed his law enforcement identification badge to the trooper. The minimum sentence th...

Last week, a bride-to-be was leaving her bachelorette party in Washington state when she was stopped for drunken driving. The 31-year-old woman was pulled over by Washington state police after they found her going more than 90 mph on the highway. The woman told the police officials that she was ...

A candidate for Seattle  Municipal Court Judge, Ed McKenna, is challenging the Ethics and Elections Commission on a voter guide statement. The 20-year-prosecutor is challenging the presiding judge on a portion of his voter's statement. Mckenna's made a statement to the commission that said that ...

The last two weeks of August through Labor Day weekend, police officials have beefed up the patrol on drunken driving. There will be more law enforcement officials on streets to keep an eye out for impaired drivers in King County. This idea is part of a program called “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed...

In 2008, Breathalyzer tests were thrown out  in King County, Washington after problems in the toxicology labs were discovered. As of now, police officials can use a Breathalyzer tests if they suspect that a driver is drunk, but the results can not be used in the court room. The test results were...

The State Supreme Court ruled that a judge in King County should be suspended for being too rude while serving on the bench. The woman's original suspension was recommended to be 90-days, but it has been reduced to five days without pay. District Court Judge Judy Eiler was censured by the Judici...

Police officials will be on the water this weekend for the annual Seafair event to keep an extra eye out for people who are driving a boat while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Multiple agencies will be joining forces in order to patrol Friday through Sunday during all the activities on...

A new law will go into effect in New York on August 15th requiring drivers convicted of driving under the influence to install an ignition interlock breathalyzer device in their vehicle.  New York is the 10th state in the country to require the installation of ignition interlock devices in convic...