Archive for May, 2009

Danielle Marie Currier, 30 days jail, suspended; 48 hours community service; $403; DUI school; victim impact panel; AA meetings.

A woman was arrested on a DUI charge Sunday night after four people in the bed of a pickup were thrown out of the vehicle.

Move over, George Clooney. Looks like Brad Pitt has found a new celeb to heckle: Mel Gibson. The actor poked fun at Gibson’s 2006 DUI arrest at Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards Saturday in L.A. See what Brad Pitt and other stars looked like before they were famous Just before the show began, Pitt entered the room and sat in a booth off to the side of the stage with Fight Club costar Ed Norton… …

Lori Petty was arrested Saturday night for felony DUI after allegedly hitting a skateboarder with her car. The incident took place at around 9:00 PM in Venice, Calif. We’re told both Petty and the skateboarder suffered minor injuries, but neither was taken to the hospital.

A 30-year-old Taylors man returning from a night out with friends in Greenville was killed early Saturday in a single-car crash on Waddell Road and the driver of a 2002 SUV was charged with felony DUI involving a death, a spokesman for the state Highway Patrol said.

Costa Mesa police are scheduled to conduct a DUI checkpoint Tuesday from 6 p.m. to midnight.

Prosecutors formally filed a DUI charge Friday against a former harbor master of the Orange County Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol in Newport Beach.

Costa Mesa police will continue on their binge of DUI checkpoints next month, following two months of success and getting inebriated drivers off the road.

Three people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Friday night during Costa Mesa’s latest DUI checkpoint.

Costa Mesa police are scheduled to conduct a DUI checkpoint Tuesday from 6 p.m. to midnight.