East Hamptons- The former supermodel Bridget Hall was arrested Sunday night after failling a breathalyzer test. Hall is denying the charges, and has said she didnt have a drop of alcohol that night.
Hall said “I had been visiting a friend and was driving home late alone. I did not drink — I would never drink and drive, God forbid that I would ever hurt anybody. I respect the law. I was tired and that was it”
Los Angeles - After being arrested for his 2nd DUI, Chris Klein served 96 hours in jail under his own accord. He also finished a 2 month stay in a live in rehab facility. 31 year old Klein appeared in person at the courts in Van Nuys and pleaded no contest to driving under the influence. In addition to jail, he was sentanced to 4 years probation, and 18 months of alcohol education classes.
“I apologize for my wrongdoing and I really appreciate that the court gave me the opportunity to prove how seriously I took all of this,” Klein told Judge David B. Gelfound
His attorney, Blair Berk, told PEOPLE, “Chris took immediate responsibility for what he did and has used this experience in such a positive way to get help to confront an addiction to alcohol. He deserves enormous credit for stepping up and getting it done.”
San Diego- 41 year old David Castello was sentanced to 90 days in jail and a 120 alcohol treatment program for drunk driving. Police pulled over Castello between Oceanside and Encinatas, and found his BAC to be 0.25%, which is over 6 times the legal limit (0.04%) for operating a passenger vehicle. Castello has been cited 9 times since 2006 for alcohol related incidents. A passenger called authorities after Castello was driving slowly, stopping at empty bus stops, and stumbling off the bus to urinate.
Long Beach Superior Court judge Gary Ferrari sentanced a transient names Charles Juan Proctor to 433 years in prison and 11 life sentances. Proctor was also ordered to pay $58,000 in restitution to two women that he slashed in the throat with a set of box cutters. He was nicknamed the ” Box Cutter” in 2008 after he attatcked many women and employees at their place of business. In all, Proctor was found guilty of 22 charges, ranging from robbery to attempted murder.
Mark Wayne Hewlett, 30, of Orange County Sheriff’s Dept was convicted and sentanced to 3 years probation for a DUI charge. He pled guilty to 3 misdemeanors in exchange for the probationary offer by an Orange County Superior Court Commisioner.
He will have to pay over a $1,000 fine, attend a three month alcohol program, and attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving victim panel. He also may get the third misdemeanor, possesion of a controlled substance, dismissed if he attend a court drug program for first offenders.
Hewlett was driving home from a friends when at 1:45 a.m. he lost control of his vehicle, drove over a curb, across a lawn, and collided with a planter in front of a home. The home happenened to belong to Orange County Supervisor Bill Campbell. According to the prosecutors, Hewlett got the minimum term for a driving under the influence conviction.
California - Four counties in California, Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare, will be the first to test a new DUI law requiring first time offenders to have an ignition interlock installed in their cars. With the device, offenders have to register a 0.0% to be able to start their vehicles. Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles. “This is a piece of legislation that will really matter at the community level.”
Most offenders will be required to pay a $125 installation fee, a $45 DMV fee, and a $60 a month service charge. First time offenders will have to have the ingnition interlocks for 5 months, second offenders for 12 months, third offender for 24 months, and fourth offenders for 36 months.
How is Ozzy Osbourne, the 61 year old self proclaimed Prince of Darkness, still alive? That is the question a St. Louis genetics firm is trying to answer by testing his DNA. It is no secret that Ozzy Osbourne, frontman for Black Sabbath, lived the “fast life” for years, smoking,taking drugs, and drinking alcohol. Even Ozzy said he was curious as to how he is still alive! Maybe it has something to do with when he bit the head off a bat on stage during a concert.
Scientist hope to see if there is something different about his DNA that has enabled him to live longer and continue to party, when so many other rockstars (and celebrities) have died. The rocker is said to be giving blood to the genetics firm on Thursday. Jon Armstrong of Cofactor Genomics said: “one of the interesting things would be to take the variation in his DNA sample and compare that to patients that have had cancer and patients that have passed away from other diseases.”
Massillon, Ohio - Police were called by a women waiting in line at a drive through pizzaria after the car behind her bumped into her repeatedly. After bumping into the women, the driver stuck his head out of the window and said “Sorry dude, something must be wrong with my brakes. Police arrived to question the man, who was named…Donald Norman Duck. The police said that Donald Duck had bloodshot eyes, and smelled like alcohol. While questioning Donald Duck they found a small bag of marijuana. Duck went on to admit that he had also had a few drinks, as well as taken some perscription pills, before getting behind the wheel. Donald Norman Duck was arrested for DUI.
Vince Neil was arrested, and later released on a $2,000 bail, for suspicion of driving under the influence in Las Vegas. Vince owns a bar located in the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas. This is the 2nd time Vince has been arrested for driving under the influence. The first time was in 1984, when Neil plead guilty to manslaughter and drunk driving, resulting from a crash that killed the passenger of the vehicle he hit.
This is the most recent incident with the police for Vince Neil. He was arrested after asaulting a music producer in 2002, again in 2003 for attacking a worker in a legal brothel in Nevada, and yet again in 2004 for hitting a sound engineer at a concert in Dallas.
Less than 2 weeks after one of his companies, Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill, filled for bankruptcy, Thomas Kinkade was busted for suspicion of driving under the influence. Shortly after 9pm on Friday Kinkade was pulled over when an officer noticed that his 2006 Mercedes didnt have a front license plate. After pulling over Kinkade, the officer suspected he had been drinking, and called in a CHP officer to help.
Tonya Paoni, who now goes by the name Tonya Casper, was arrested in May for a drunk driving incident which left 2 people dead on Interstate 72 in Illinois last summer. Paoni was evicted from the Big Brother 3 house on day 20. She was known for wearing a “peanut butter” bikini along with Chiara Jude Berti and Lisa Donahue. Paoni is currently being held on a $1 million bail in Sangamon County Jail.
Mark Hoffman, of Lincoln, was arrested recently after running a red light and colliding with another car. Hoffman, 53 years old, had his license revoked in 2007 and reinstated in Feb of 2008, even after having 13 prior DUIs. His BAC measured .112%, which is over the 0.08% limit.
Police Chief Tom Casady said Hoffman was first arrested for driving under the influence in 1975 when he was just 19 years old. Casady posted this comment later on his blog ” “Don’t ask me how a guy with 13 prior drunk driving convictions is ever able to get a driver’s license again because I have no clue.”
American Pie Actor Chris Klein was arrested after yesterday after he was seen swerving in Los Angeles. After being arrested he admitted to drinking and was found to have a BAC of three times the legal limit. Watch video below.
6/10 - We are pleased to announce that we have been approved for a Google Grant! They are generous enough to offer us a $10,000 A MONTH budget using Google Adwords. This is going to help get our cause and name out there dramatically, and we are greatly appreciative of the grant. Google is an amazing organization, and granting us such a large monthly budget in their Adwords Marketing program is going to take us into the next level!
Hey everyone, we want to invite you to come out tonight and have a good time with us and help raise some money at our fundraiser at Frisco’s Burgers in Long Beach. It goes on from 7-1AM, hope to see you there!
Help out our fundraiser and visit the Jamba Juice @ La Alameda Center, Walnut Park today before they close. 10% of all proceeds will be donated by Jamba Juice to Dont Die Drunk! We want to formally thank Dr. Linda McCroskey’s Comm 420 class at the California State University of Long Beach for choosing us as their nonprofit for their semester project. The group is called S.T.E.P., which stands for Stepping Towards Endless Possibilities. You can visit their website at www.YourStepCounts.org and show your support!
If you paid attention to the drunk driving statistics for 2008, the problem continues to plague this country. Drunk driving effects everyone, from the people involved, to the families related to those people, to the community and tax payers that shell out money every year towards this issue. Well there is a new company that is doing something to change that. Taxi On Demand is an organization that makes Discover gift cards that can be used only on taxi rides. They have a nationwide network of thousands of taxi companies that accept their cards. Next time you are looking for an alternative way home, call 1-888-4-TOD-TAXI to find a cab company in your area. We want to thank Taxi on Demand for their donations of gift cards that we are going to give out at upcoming fundraisers. Make sure to get on our mailling list to ensure you dont miss out on any opportunities to win!
Its that time of year again, time for KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas! We are proud to announce we will have a booth setup with our FDA approved breathalyzers, and offer FREE test to anyone who would like to use it. Thats right, free! We are a nonprofit organization, and want to give people the tool they need to make it home after an amazing concert. Night 1 is Dec 12th with performances by AFI, Rise Against, Alice in Chains, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Three Days Grace, Anberlin, and Dead By Sunrise. Night 2 of KROQ’s ACX features Muse, 311, Slightly Stoopid, Phoenix, The Bravery, Metric, Vampire Weekend, Cage the Elephant, and White Rabbits. This is all going down at the Gibson Amphitheatre. So if your attending, stop by, say hi, and blow.
According to a recent interview with Sporting News magazine, Ron Artest admits to drinking alcohol during the halftime of games. Apparently while playing for Chicago in 1999-2002 Artest kept a bottle of Hennessy in his locker to drink during the break. In the interview he also comments on the brawl with Ben Wallace which got him suspended for the rest of the 2004 season. Artest said, “I see Ben, I’m on my guard now. I’m always in the mood to fight him. … I’ll get suspended 10 games, 15 games (because) I’ll just fight him right there. It won’t go into the stands.”
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