Any driver caught driving on a suspended or revoked license may face charges. Anyone caught three or more times will receive a mandatory jail sentence. For each suspension or revocation, a driver’s license will be revoked or suspended for an additional period of time. A driver facing these charges needs to seek counsel from a…
The Supreme Court ruled this week that police must usually obtain a warrant before making a suspected drunk driver submit to a blood test. In an 8-to-1 vote, the court ruled on a case from Missouri where a state trooper drove a suspected drunk driver to a local hospital and ordered the man’s blood be…
A judge’s ruling in a Pennsylvania DUI case has officials reevaluating cases not only in that county, but across the state and may have implications on even a larger scale. Judge Lawrence F. Clark Jr. ruled that breathlyzer machines used by law enforcement to measure the intoxication level of drivers cannot be accurate beyond a…
The United States Supreme Court seemed unlikely to allow law enforcement to typically force suspected drunk drivers to give a blood sample if officers hadn’t at least attempted to obtain a warrant from a judge after hearing arguments this week in a Missouri case. The state of Missouri, along with support from the Obama administration, argued in…
A Virginia driver is facing charges after a serious accident in a work zone early Friday morning that injured three Virginia Department of Transportation workers. According to reports, the crash occurred about 3 a.m. on Interstate 264 eastbound near the Broad Creek Bridge. Officials said 32-year-old Jahmell Dushawn Riley quickly changed lanes before driving into…
A new law will take effect in July requiring anyone arrested and convicted of driving under the influence to have his or her vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device. The equipment requires the driver to blow into a tube before starting up the vehicle. Any reading greater than .02 percent will disable the vehicle…
A Germantown man was sentenced to 14 months in prison Monday after he killed another man on Key Bridge while he was driving drunk a year ago. According to reports, Anthony Randolph, 41, hit and killed 23-year-old Pineda-Medrano of Arlington February 27, 2011. Pineda-Medrano was trying to start up his moped that had stalled when…
A Howard County police officer was struck by a woman allegedly driving under the influence Friday night, near Ellicott City. According to reports, 45-year-old Sung Ok Jang was driving a Kia Sorento when she hit the officer’s Dodge Charger just before midnight on Route 40 at Route 29. The officer’s vehicle had its lights on…
A Northern Virginia man was charged with driving under the influence, refusal to submit a blood or breath test and felony manslaughter in the accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student from Virginia Beach. According to reports, 23-year-old Varinder Chahal of Springfield, Va. was driving his 2004 Mazda westbound on…
A first-time DUI offender may have to use an ignition iterlock device if a bill that is moving forward in the General Assembly becomes a law. According to reports, the bill that was introduced by Delegate Sal Iaquinto (R) of Virginia Beach would require all those convicted of driving while intoxicated to have the device…