Thirty-two-year old comedian Kevin Hart (“Laugh at My Pain”) was arrested on suspicion of Los Angeles DUI on the 101 last Sunday morning. According to local reports, a CHP officer pulled over Hart’s black Mercedes, after the officer saw Hart driving at over 90 miles per hour – nearly smashing…
We’ve covered some pretty hairy and scary Pasadena DUI mug shots on this blog. Even if you’ve been hiding under a rock over the past decade, you likely still remember Nick Nolte’s grizzled DUI visage from several years ago. He looked like he had just gotten out of bed. On…
Although this blog focuses on Long Beach DUI cases, we’ve been covering a surprisingly sizable number of cases out of the Big Sky State of Montana recently. To wit, The Associated Press is reporting that Trumaine Johnson, a cornerback with the St. Louis Rams, got arrested for a misdemeanor DUI,…
Getting stopped and arrested for driving under the influence in Long Beach (or anywhere else) can have profound, long-lasting implications, even if you manage to reduce your charges. Consider, for instance, the highly publicized ordeal of Josiah Turner. The former guard for Arizona just received a two-day jail sentence in…
Our Hollywood DUI story of the week is clearly the Reese Witherspoon incident. The “Legally Blonde” actress didn’t nab the DUI, though. That honor goes to her husband, CAA uber-agent, James Toth. Witherspoon and Toth had been in Atlanta, where the actress was shooting a movie (The Good Lie), when…
If you’ve recently been arrested for DUI in Santa Monica, you have company — famous company. In particular: legendary sportscaster, Al Michaels, who was busted last Friday night, after he made an illegal U-turn right in front of a police manning a DUI checkpoint. The officers quickly pulled over the…
Driving DUI in Los Angeles just doesn’t pay. And celebrity musician, Bobby Brown, would probably be the first to tell you why. After pleading no contest to October 2012 charges in February, Brown finally received his sentence: 55 days behind bars and an electronic surveillance ankle bracelet. Although Brown only…
When you got arrested for driving under the influence in Burbank, you might have been tempted to “fight back” against the police or engage in destructive (perhaps illegal) behavior. Hopefully, you restrained yourself from making your situation worse. For an object lesson about what can happen, let’s take a look…
As someone who was recently arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Los Angeles, you’re feeling pretty sheepish and scared and regretful. You wish you had use more common sense — handed the keys to a friend or associate or just cabbed it home. As much as you…
If you recently got arrested for drug DUI in Hollywood or elsewhere in the Southland, you have plenty of company. Often, DUI events represent the tip of the iceberg — the manifestation of longer brewing and ultimately very tragic situations. Consider, in that context, the recent stop and arrest of…