Last week, Lindsay Lohan’s grand felony theft charge (which this blog covered at length in a previous post) consumed nearly all the oxygen in the Los Angeles DUI blogosphere. Jaime Presley’s DUI drama snatched up the dregs. (As this blog also covered recently, the “My Name is Earl” actress filed…
Jennifer Jowett, a wealthy socialite featured on the VH1 series You’re Cut Off! was arrested for driving under the influence in West Hollywood the night of the show’s premiere just a block from her house, according to gossip website TMZ.com. Jowett and the show’s host, life coach Laura Baron, had…
In 2007, former child starlet and prominent celebutante Lindsay Lohan got arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles. Since that fateful stop, the beleaguered Lohan has been sent to jail three separate times for drug possession and violating her Los Angeles DUI probation. Today, the Los Angeles District…
Last Tuesday, prosecutors in Santa Monica formally charged actress Jaime Pressly (“My Name is Earl”) with driving under the influence in Southern California. As this blog reported several weeks ago, the 33-year old actress got arrested on January 5th on suspicion of DUI and allegedly tested to have a BAC…
Okay, although this is not exactly a Pasadena DUI case – it happened in the small town of Warwick, Rhode Island – but the sheer zaniness and coincidence of it all merits a blip on this blog’s radar. If you’ve been pulled over for Glendale DUI, Pasadena DUI, Burbank DUI,…
The Huntington Beach Police Department is on the case of Sharkeez, a downtown bar linked to over 72 arrests for driving under the influence in Southern California over the past year and a half. On November 11, 2010, Huntington Beach Police Chief Ken Small sparked an investigation into the popular…
Sports celebrities arrested for driving under the influence in Glendale often don’t get as much press as DUI actor celebrities, like Nick Nolte, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, and the like. But you might be surprised by the sheer number of sports stars recently been pulled over for DUI in Los…
What could have been a horrifically bloody Los Angeles DUI story fortunately ended with just a minor fender-bender and an arrest. Last week, a man apparently under the influence of alcohol pulled his car onto some railroad tracks parallel to San Fernando Road and fell asleep – literally with his…
A week ago Sunday, Delino DeShields Jr., the Houston Astros’s 2010 first-round draft pick, got arrested for a traffic violation and DUI in Georgia, prompting many sports analysts who cover celebrity news, like incidents of sports stars driving DUI in Southern California, to debate furiously about what the 18-year old’s…
One of the biggest debates roiling the Southern California DUI community today concerns whether or not Huntington Beach was correct in rejecting a proposal that would have allowed police to post mug shots of DUI offenders on Facebook. Last Tuesday, the Huntington City Council voted down this “shaming proposal” proposed…