The veteran newsman was pulled over for a traffic violation, but wound up getting arrested after failing a field sobriety test.
Scott Law, 33, of Gainsborough, Lincs in the UK, who is legally registered as blind, decided to get plastered one night and reportedly had between four and five bottles of wine and got into an argument with his girlfriend, Suzanne Scawthon, as he drove the car home with their two year old in the back.
Texas man Stephen Michael Place, 41, went for the gold by assaulting his ex-wife while driving under the influence of drugs. Luckily he was unable to sustain both activities for long, and wound up crashing his Beemer into a tree.
A 52-year-old grandmother was allegedly under the influence of prescription pills when police say she fatally ran over her 2-year-old grandson Brayden Lucas Daniel with a Ford Explorer. Rebecca Jane Elrod of Albertville, Ala., was charged with charged with criminally negligent homicide Friday.
Terry Ash, 55, of Boise, Idaho, has been convicted of DUI 14 times in the last 32 years. On October 16 Ada County Judge Patrick Owen, told Ash he was a "menace to society," and that to protect the pubic he was sentencing him to life in prison. There are worse offenders out there, and the sentences vary dramatically.
A Connecticut woman has been arrested on a DUI charge after police say she drank a half bottle of hand sanitizer. Jennifer Wilcox, 36, of Middletown, allegedly lost control of her vehicle October 5 and nearly crashed into another car. Police pulled her over and administered a breathalyzer test, which registered a 0.17, just over double the legal limit.
A recent DUI arrest of a seemingly normal Ohio bar patron turns into a violent, biting, blood spitting express ride to the psych ward.
A Louisiana man, who was pulled over for driving erratically, was drunk enough to think that if he could gross out the cops enough, they would let him go. He was wrong.
In Vernon, Conn., a man who police say was drinking a beer while driving was arrested at a DUI checkpoint this weekend. And in Ohio, a man was arrested for DUI twice in three hours.
