DUI Arrests By New Hampshire State Troopers

Troop A Blotter

Kevin Joensuu aged 49 was arrested at 8:22 p.m. on 13th March 2018 for drinking while driving offence on Route 16 in Dover and Mike NjopaFinjap aged 30, was arrested at 8:10 p.m. on 11th March 2018 for driving after revocation or suspension on Route 16 North in Portsmouth. Both are residents of Dover. Christopher Dunkleof Concord, aged 31 was arrested for reckless operation at 8:20 a.m. on March 11, 2018, on Route 101 East in Brentwood near Exit 8. Dwayne Duntonof Milton, aged 34 was arrested at 12:50 a.m. on March 11, 2018, for DUI on Route 125 North in Rochester.Carl Miller, 53, of Moncks Corner, SC, was arrested at 8:50 p.m. on March 9, 2018, for DUI and DUI – adult greater than 0.08 on Route 16 North near Exit 9 in Dover.

Troop B Blotter

Alexander Wentaof Manchester, aged 30 was arrested at 9:30 p.m. on March 15, 2018, for DUI on I-293 North near Exit 2 in Manchester.Todd Rouillier, 50, of Manchester was arrested at 10:45 a.m. on March 15, 2018 for driving after revocation or suspension-subsequent and disobeying an officer on Route 28 in Manchester.Jean Rohena, of Lawrence, MA, aged 30 was arrested at 3:24 p.m. on March 14, 2018, for driving after revocation or suspension on I-93 South in Manchester.

Troop D Blotter

Steven Camara of Westport, MA, aged 52 was arrested at 4:57 p.m. on 11t hMarch 2018, for DUI on I-93 North in Concord. Tracie Marquette of Concord, aged 18 was arrested at 6:26 p.m. on March 10, 2018, for suspension of vehicle registration on I-93 South in Hooksett. Michael Roberts aged 31, of Suncook, was arrested at 3:05 p.m. on March 9, 2018, for reckless operation on I-393 West in Concord.

There were other NHSP arrests as well. Jeremy Sellers of Ossipee, aged 35 was arrested at 12:26 a.m. on March 11, 2018, for drinking and driving, DUI–adult greater than 0.08, and possession of a controlled drug on Route 16 in Albany.Elwood Sherman, 50, of Charlestown, RI, was arrested at 11:18 p.m. on March 10, 2018, for drinking and driving on Route 113 in Albany.

Read the full article here: https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/new-hampshire-state-troopers-make-dui-arrests-roundup

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Man From Des Plaines With 15 DUI Convictions Accused Of Driving On Revoked License In Hit And Run Crash

Christopher Clingingsmith, aged 52, has been charged with violating the terms of his bond in a pending DUI case as he was driving on a revoked license and possessed a fake ID in a hit and run crash, according to prosecutors. Clingingsmith is a Des Plaines man who has about 15 DUI convictions and a pending DUI case and was involved in a hit and run crash last weekend in Arlington Heights, Cook County on a revoked license. He had been free on a $400,000 bond on the DUI charge and the said bond was revoked at a hearing on Thursday, in Rolling Meadows branch court. Judge Steven Goebel, set bail at $1 million for charges related to the crash. According to the judge, Clingingsmith has the potential to be very dangerous as he has 15 prior DUI’s and was operating a two-ton motor vehicle.

Clingingsmith was involved in a hit and run crash and was arrested in Rolling Meadows after the crash took place early Saturday near White Oak Street and New Wilke Road in Arlington Heights. He faces up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of the current DUI charge which is a Class X felony. He faced four previous prison sentences for DUI and other convictions according to authorities.

In the pending DUI against him, Clingingsmith was arrested by Arlington Heights police after he fled away from a hit and run crash in Des Plaines in June and crashed into another vehicle on Northwest Highway and Arlington Heights Road and was taken into custody thereafter, as per prosecutors. Clingingsmith’s next court hearing on the DUI case is April 25 in the Rolling Meadows branch court and it appears that no impaired driving defence will be helpful to him looking at all the previous convictions and pending case.

Read the full article here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-repeat-dui-offender-court-hearing-20180323-story.html

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Legal Experts Warn About Changes To The Impaired Driving Laws Of Canada That Could Give Far-Reaching Powers To The Police

Police could show up on your doorstep up to two hours after you arrive home in order to collect demand a breath or saliva sample if Canada’s new DUI laws are passed.Calgary defence lawyer Dale Fedorchuk says the proposed law “begs” to be challenged constitutionally and one of the things that concerns him most. Fedorchuk stated that if the law is passed, the officers would have the power to charge someone with impaired driving, even after they have parked their vehicle.The Trudeau government last month introduced sweeping changes that include mandatory roadside breath samples and much harsher penalties for some offences that could result in up to 10 years in prison among other measures.

If the Police have a reasonable suspicion that a driver has drugs in their body they can also demand a roadside saliva sample. The said changes were announced the same day the federal government unveiled its bill to legalize marijuana and are becoming the topic of debate among lawyers, legal experts and victim groups who are lining up to either praise or ban the legislation.Officers can simply demand a test and drivers will have no choice, since refusing to provide a sample is a Criminal Code offence. As per Section eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.”
According to Fedorchuk, the proposed law could shift the burden of proof onto an accused. He said for example, that someone who is approached by police at their residence would have to prove they consumed alcohol or drugs at home after they exited their vehicle and were not driving drunk.Calgary police officers appear supportive of the new changes especially the section that drops the requirement that an officer must first have reasonable suspicion before demanding a breath test. Mothers Against Drunk Driving stated the proposed changes are a good first step.

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Man Arrested For Dui And Suspended Driver’s License While Going Over 100 Mph

A Spokane Valley Deputy arrested a man late Wednesday night for DUI after the deputy saw him traveling at a speed of more than 100 mph on Highway 27.Deputy Tyler Kullman at around 11:20 p.m. on Thursday, noticed a vehicle traveling south on Pines towards him going faster than the 35 mph speed limit. The officer observed that the truck accelerated as it passed his patrol car. Deputy Kullman followed and caught up with it in the area of 24th and Highway 27, where the dark colored vehicle raced way over 100 mph. Kullman activated his emergency lights and performed a traffic stop near 32nd Avenue.David A. Davis, aged 52, driver of the speeding vehicle pulled into a parking lot and reached around the floorboard of his truck as Kullman ordered Davis to keep his hands on the steering and told Davis’ passenger to place his hands on the dashboard.

Davis became argumentative immediately after Deputy Kullman made contact with him, telling the Deputy to go away and said he was a “constitutionalist” who “didn’t need to identify himself”. Davis was placed in handcuffs while he continued to yell.Deputy Skye Ortiz, who was also present, contacted Davis who was arrested for reckless driving and driving while suspended, to start a DUI investigation. Davis continued to yell as Deputy Ortiz noticed a strong odor of intoxicants from Davis. Davis declined to submit to a field sobriety test but was placed under arrest for DUI, as well.

Davis continued to use vulgarity at the officers as he was advised of his rights. Davis requested to speak to a DUI defence lawyer and was placed in contact with a public defender. After, he was advised of his rights regarding a breath test, which he stated he understood and refused to take the test. Davis was booked into the Spokane County Jail for DUI, Reckless Driving, Operating a Vehicle w/o an Interlock Device when required and driving with a Suspended/Revoked Driver’s License.

Read the full article here: https://www.kxly.com/news/man-going-over-100-mph-arrested-for-dui-suspended-drivers-license/719894155

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8 People Injured On Icy Reno Roads With 15-20 Cars Involved In Thursday Crash

The Nevada Highway Patrol asked people to stay off the roads on Thursday evening after several multi-car crashes put the freeways in a shut-down state in the area. Officer Matt McLaughlin stated that around 15-20 cars piled up in a mid-afternoon shut down on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 east of Mustang. According to him the number of injuries was unclear, but McLaughlin stated that about eight people were transported by emergency response teams.

According to McLaughlin it was also virtually impossible to get from Carson City to Reno on Thursday afternoon, as northbound lanes on both Interstate 580 and Old U.S. 395 were closed. Another 15-20 car pileup triggered after a Nevada Highway Patrol Vehicle was struck and the I-580 closure was caused. McLaughlin stated that tow trucks and emergency response teams were working at “max capacity”.

In the northeast part of Nevada, the eastbound I-80 was closed for approximately four hours after two people were injured in a six-vehicle crash just before noon in the Carlin Tunnels west of Elko.NHP Trooper Jim Stewart stated that one victim suffered a possible broken leg but none of the injuries was considered life-threatening.However no one is reported to have been charged with a DUI or any other offence. In north-central Nevada, a record-breaking 3.6 inches of snowfall was reported in Winnemucca as it broke the old record of 2.9 inches set in 1919 according to the National Weather Service.

In the north of Reno, Stead, seven inches of snow had fallen.As per reports, the National Weather Service stated that 3.5 inches of snow was reported in three hours at Reno-Stead Airport and five inches was recorded in two hours in nearby Cold Springs during the Thursday morning commute. School was delayed two hours throughout Washoe County and five schools in Reno reportedly canceled classes. As per the forecast, up to 6 inches of snow was predicted into Thursday night at Lake Tahoe.

Read the full article here: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2018/02/22/washoe-schools-2-hour-delay-snow-blows-toward-reno/362336002/

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Your Legal Liability if Your Guests Drive Home Drunk

You host a party where there’s food, music, cheering and alcohol. Then a guest, who has had a few drinks, gets into their car and drives home while under the influence. Are you liable to be held responsible if your guest or anyone else gets hurt in an accident? If you are having a party that includes alcohol, you should ensure that everyone who drinks gets home safe with the help of a driver, a cab or a room to lie in after the party is over. In case of bartenders and licensed establishments, there is a clear legal duty to cut out the alcohol if patrons seem intoxicated and to ensure they get home safely but for individuals who throw private parties, the law isn’t clear. However, the risk of legal liability exists and legal responsibilities may be broadening scope wise.

A case in Canada Childs v. Desormeaux, where a woman was paralyzed and her boyfriend killed in a car accident struck by the driver who had been drunk. The woman sued the hosts of a New Year’s party attended by the drunk driver who bought his own alcohol to the host’s home. According to personal injury lawyer Jeremy Diamond, the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the social hosts do not owe a duty of care to third parties injured by intoxicated guests and added that the case did not determine whether there was a duty of care in other circumstances, such as foreseeability of harm is present for the guests themselves.

In order to reduce the risk of liability there are a few things hosts can do apart from providing accommodation and transportation such as not making drinks the focus of the party, cutting out alcohol well before time, take car keys away from the guests if necessary and avoid guests having serve themselves. Otherwise, with the inclination of the law to change itself according to the need of the hour it appears there would be a time when hosts will have to hire an impaired driving attorney for them in the near future.

Read the full article here: https://globalnews.ca/news/3926502/drunk-driving-canada-social-host-liability/

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Things You Need to Know About Your Breath Test Sample if Stopped for a DUI

Stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and given a breath alcohol test? Well, here is all that you need to know:

According to lawyer Ziad Youssef of MyTrafficMan.net the Draeger 9510 is the breath alcohol instrument most commonly used in Washington DUI investigations and like the DataMaster, which is an obsolete instrument, it analyzes breath to help police estimate the level of alcohol in a person’s blood.

According to the prevalent laws in most of the states, the legal limit for breath alcohol has been set at .08, which means that anyone with a breath alcohol level of .08 is assumed to be driving under influence. However, recent developments in DUI defense strategies have created reasons to doubt the results of the instrument. The Draeger 9510 works with the help of software that has yet not been validated by the state. The said software controls the data when the breath alcohol sample is collected. It has sensors that check and record flow rate, volume, breath alcohol level and time to ensure the minimum criteria for a breath sample.

As per the DUI law in Washington, the instrument has to test only the last portion of air exhaled by the driver into the Draeger among other things. Challenging the reliability or accuracy of a Draeger 9510 breath test or its functioning have not resulted in the inadmissibility of the test results which means the hearings officer at a Department of Licensing hearing and the jury in a criminal trial will likely see results and they may consider the challenge in deciding what weight to give the test result. Presenting evidence of an invalid test is critical to successful hearing and may save the driver from DUI penalties since the burden of challenging the weight of a breath test is on the driver.

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Ignition Interlocks to be Deterrents for Drunk Driving as per the Task Force

More and more U.S. states are passing a legislation vide which all DUI offenders will have to get an ignition interlock device placed in their vehicles whether it’s their first offence or a repeat offense and won’t be able to take an impaired driving defence that they don’t want any such device installed in the vehicle. As per the traffic stats for the year 2016, alcohol-related crashes accounted for 4 percent of all crashes in the state and alcohol-related crash fatalities were 28 percent of the total 1441 crash fatalities in the state of North Carolina, which comes to 402 people in totality.

Mary Beth Cox, who is an epidemiologist at the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, presented data based on a survey conducted in 2016 which showed that almost 3 percent of adults admitted to drinking and driving during the 30 days prior to the time they were asked the question. The number of teens who said they’d been in a car in the past month with someone who had been under the influence as per a 2015 survey was 18.4 percent.

The mandate that makes it mandatory to get an ignition interlock device in every offender’s vehicle is definitely going to make a difference. A driver needs to blow into the device when they get into a vehicle with an ignition interlock device and the interlock can be set to prevent ignition if the alcohol presence is more than the limit. Around 30 states have already moved forward to make ignition interlocks for all of the people arrested for driving under the influence. The states where interlocks were universal, deaths in alcohol-related crashes decreased by 15 percent and re-arrest rates dropped by 67 percent.

Read the full article here: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2018/03/08/task-force-backs-ignition-interlocks-as-drunk-driving-deterrent/

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Your Legal Options and the Costs if Involved in a Drunk Driving Offence

Drinking and driving is a dangerous act and the most common advice with regard to driving that people give is never to drink and drive. It sounds easy but drunk driving offences are one of the most recurrent offences in the whole of the United States. Drunk driving is the cause of hundreds and thousands of fatalities annually and it also results in grave penalties and consequences that alter the course of life. The people who get convicted for DUI offences experience a lot of consequences such as multiple court appearances, a criminal record, dishonor in society and apart from all of this, it is something really costly.

If found guilty of a DUI crime, the accused is forced to pay financially, professionally as well as legally and these consequences can linger on for several years and in some states, for the rest of the life. The costs of a DUI offence can be really heavy. The court fees may cost between $250 to $1500 and hiring a lawyer may cost another $2000 for a minimum. Then there are costs for license reinstatement and formal hearing which range from $250-$500. Some states demand the attendance of the accused in alcohol abuse classes that cost an additional $100 to $500. Insurance rates are also increased as insurance companies consider DUI offenders as high risk drivers. Apart from all of that a total amount of $1650 goes in the form of various fines and fees.

Those involved in a DUI need to three things legally. First is to document everything as it is essential for the case. Second is to look for potential witnesses that can help strengthen the case. Third is to hire a competent DUI lawyer as the best DUI lawyer can protect the interests of the accused in the most appropriate way. Getting convicted and arrested for a DUI offence is not only embarrassing but is a life altering event that can be really costly and hiring the best DUI defense lawyer is the perfect option for anyone facing a DUI offence.

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Alcohol: A Major Factor in Many Crimes Involving Violence

Mark Jante, a 59 year old man from Middlesex Township called 911 on March 12 to report that he had stabbed someone and was in need of medical attention. The police arrived and they found Jante covered in blood and the victim bleeding from his back. The victim was referred to as his “buddy” who ultimately succumbed to his injuries and Jante was the first of two people to be charged with criminal homicide in the Cumberland County. There aren’t many killing that happen in Cumberland County but a factor that has become common in the commission of violent crimes is alcohol.

According to David Jernigan who is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, adding alcohol to any situation that has potential for violence is like adding gasoline to fire. As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 300 homicides in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010 where alcohol was a key factor. Other recent researches by various government authorities have shown that violent crimes have been committed under the influence of alcohol and alcohol accounts for the commission of more than half of such crimes.

Daniel Webster is a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and believes that alcohol affects the behavior of individuals. According to Webster, a little bit of alcohol doesn’t change anything and it is only after a few drinks that the individuals start to show signs of change in behavior. They are rendered unable to drive ultimately resulting in driving and drinking charges, disability to control impulses and other behavioral changes resulting in violence.

Read the full article here: https://cumberlink.com/news/local/closer_look/over-the-limit-alcohol-is-a-factor-in-many-violent/article_6acff982-9a6c-50da-9497-4b84f4ff5b8c.html

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