When a celebrity like famous 80’s rocker Rick Springfield faces a charge like driving under the influence in Beverly Hills or Malibu, you can be sure that tabloids and websites like TMZ.com will be all over the story: speculating, criticizing, and occasionally sympathizing with the famous person at the center…
The blogosphere was ablaze (no pun intended) last week with horrific Beverly Hills DUI news – 34-year-old Ryan Dunn, co-star of the popular TV series and movie franchise “Jackass,” died last week in a catastrophic fireball. The disaster led some pundits to declare that Dunn “died as he lived” and…
Many arrests for driving under the influence in Beverly Hills involve celebrities driving multimillion dollar cars. Perhaps the only other place on earth that involves as many Maserati, Ferrari, and Bugatti DUI stops is South Beach, Florida. Indeed, South Miami was the scene of a major celebrity DUI bust last…
Let’s face it: There are a lot more stories about celebrities driving under the influence in Beverly Hills and similar places (e.g. Burbank DUI, Pasadena DUI, Glendale DUI, Los Angeles DUI) than there are newsworthy events about people driving under the influence in national parks. And for good reason. The…
Analysts and policy experts who look at the problem of driving under the influence in Beverly Hills (and elsewhere in the Southland) often examine data on a surprisingly superficial level. In other words, it’s often a “quick fix” game – blame the driver, and get on with it. But a…
Last Wednesday evening, Jaime Pressly, a 33-year old actress best known for her role on the sitcom My Name Is Earl, got pulled over for a Los Angeles DUI in Santa Monica after police witnessed her committing a traffic violation. According to reports by TMZ.com, Pressly failed a field sobriety…
The Beverly Hills DUI that got Lindsay Lohan in trouble and on probation is now taking a turn for the worse. After being sent to rehab, again, by Beverly Hills Judge Elden Fox, she is thrown out due to a physical assault against a Betty Ford clinic worker. Now should…
DUI arrests were up significantly this Thanksgiving weekend. The California Highway Patrol assigned all available units to man the streets to catch as many Los Angeles DUI drivers as possible. The statistics have now been released and the number of drunk driver arrests are up. Over the same period last…
In 2007, actress Lindsay Lohan netted her second Southern California DUI conviction. Her hard-partying ways made her notorious in tabloids and online gossip forums. Two weeks ago, her dad, Michael Lohan, called the police to the starlet’s home, fearing that his night-clubbing daughter might be putting her younger sister Ali…
Corey Dillon, a retired NFL runningback who played for the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots, was pulled over for driving under the influence in Southern California at 4 a.m. last Wednesday, according to officials from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station. The 35-year-old Dillon was stopped in his 2010 Chevy…