Former President of Local Mother’s Against Drunk Driving Arrested for DUI
Debra Oberlin is the former head of the Gainsville, Florida, chapter of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving. She was pulled off the road by cops recently and arrested after she had difficulty on a field sobriety test. Her blood alcohol content, when tested, was above .2 (the legal limit is .08). Probably someone told her, “Don’t [...]
Former Marine pleads guilty to tossing son off boat ‘after he wouldn’t stop crying’
A drunken father who tossed his seven-year-old son overboard in a busy California harbour, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, has been sentenced to rehab. Thirty-five-year-old Sloan Briles, a former Marine from Irvine, avoided jail by pleading guilty on Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment. He was sentenced to three [...]
Charges filed in fatal Kendall County accident
A Somonauk man has been charged in connection with an October car-motorcycle crash in Kendall County that left one person dead, police said today. Matthew D. Lambert, 28, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated DUI and reckless homicide, Kendall County Sheriff’s Deputy Craig French said in a release. Chicago Tribune
Driver who killed girl, 10, again faces multiple DUI charges
During the nearly 18 months since he finished his punishment for killing a 10-year-old Lockport girl while driving drunk, Glen Higgginbotham Jr. has been arrested twice more for DUI. The first DUI arrest came a year ago, only five months after the Yorkville man was discharged from a prison sentence he received — in part [...]
Man with THREE DUIs caught ‘driving drunk with children in his car’ (and he’s been arrested seven times before)
A man with three previous DUIs has been arrested for driving drunk with children in his car, police say. Randy Schaub, 30, who is considered ‘a habitual traffic offender’, is accused of driving impaired while speeding away from authorities with unrestrained children in his vehicle. Schaub, who has been arrested on at least seven previous occasions since [...]
Woman sues bar for not carding her and preventing drunken car crash that left her paralyzed
A 20-year-old woman paralyzed in a car crash after a night of underage drinking is suing a bar for not checking her ID. Chelsea Hess, now 22, argues a barman should have asked her to show her ID when she ordered drinks at a South Carolina Bar in 2009. Despite being a year under the [...]
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s daughter, Lyssa Chapman, arrested in Hawaii
Lyssa Chapman, daughter of reality star “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” aka Duane Chapman, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Hawaii for criminal property damage and harassment. Chapman, 23, who’s featured on her father’s reality TV show, was arrested in a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, called Hawaii Kai, at about 3:30 AM, after she allegedly began [...]
Burglars caught after covering faces with permanent marker pens
McNelly, 23, and Miller, 20 were arrested by armed police in Carroll, Iowa, last Friday after witnesses reported seeing two men trying to break into an apartment with fake beards and “masks” scrawled on their faces. Police responding to a call about the attempted burglary later pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects’ vehicle. [...]
Cory Smiths Convicted Of Drunken Driving In Two Rivers, Wis. For Fifth Time
For the fifth time since 2004, Cory Smits of Two Rivers, Wis. was convicted of operating while intoxicated, according to The Herald Time Reporter. Smits, 29, was convicted on July 7 for his latest offense, which occurred on Feb. 12, the paper said. Cops said that Smits had a blood alcohol level of .29. They [...]
Burglar, 19, blames theft and trespass to marshmallow flavored vodka
A burglary suspect found passed out on a stranger’s sofa with his shoes off said he blacked out after drinking too much marshmallow-flavored vodka. Howard Brundage, 19, from Riverside, Illinois, was discovered on Christmas morning sleeping on a stranger’s couch moments after he allegedly burglarised a nearby home. The suspect told police he started his [...]