Mothers Against Drunk Driving

No-Host Bar Unlikely at All-Day DUI Summit

County Supervisor Todd Spitzer has brought together a variety of experts and advocates for an "Orange County DUI Summit" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Concordia University in Irvine.Ah, for the Don Draper days when they'd serve cocktails at these deals.

Adam Harrison Hall, Twice Convicted of DUI and Accused of Blazing on Meds in Fatal Crash, Faces Murder Count; Is That Right?

Trial began last week for a 29-year-old Placentia man facing a murder count for allegedly raging on methamphetamine, Diazepam, Nordiazepam, Alprazolam, Hydroxyalprazolam, Oxazepam, Temazepam, amphetamine, Morphine, and 11-nor-9-carboxy-delta-9-tetrahyrocannabinol (THCA) before causing a car crash ... More >>

Like Cocktails, the Messages in Winter Holiday DUI Death, Wreck and Arrest Data are Mixed

The good news from the winter holiday anti-DUI enforcement period in Orange County is there were no impaired driving related fatalities during that time. The bad news is more suspected drunk or drugged drivers were arrested than the year before. Better those 971 folks (compared with 836 the year bef ... More >>

[UPDATED with Adenhart Crash Victim's Two Cents:] Fullerton Poised to End Sobriety Checkpoints as Labor Day Ops Continue

See the update at the end of this post about the Mother's Against Drunk Driving push back and a victim of the Fullerton crash that killed Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart addressing the council. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 27, 3:29 P.M.: From 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 17 through midnight Friday, Aug. 24, ... More >>

OC Prosecutors, Cops To Host 2012 Crime Victims' Rights March & Rally on April 27

In honor of the upcoming National Crime Victims' Rights Week, the Orange County District Attorney's office and other area law enforcement agencies will host the region's 4th Annual Victims' Rights March & Rally on April 27.The Santa Ana event will begin at a 9:30 a.m. reception with District Att ... More >>

[Castro No Longer With Sheriff's Department] Mario Manuel Castro, Sheriff's Deputy, Convicted of Second DUI

UPDATE: March 20, 11:20 A.M.: Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, says Castro "separated" from the department on Feb. 22. He wouldn't say if Castro was fired or quit, citing employment privacy laws. ​Mario Manuel Castro apparently ditched class the day the Orang ... More >>

Darren Sandberg: Questions Surround I.D.'ing Deputy Who Fatally Shot Marine Sergeant

​Here is something OC Weekly investigative reporters are used to: they break a story involving Orange County government, the district attorney or the sheriff's department, and the targeted agency later confirms those facts--in the Orange County Register.After Patch.com reported Darren Sandberg was ... More >>

Drunken Driving Deaths Way Down in California

​It will either bolster the argument that sobriety checkpoints are working or prop up the side that claims such enforcement operations are unnecessary, but in either event drunken-driving fatalities are down dramatically in California, according to state data. A record low 791 people were killed i ... More >>

Irvine Parents Who Let Minors Get Boozed Up at Parties Could Face $3K Fines

Best Week Ever​Remember in high school how there'd always be that one mom or dad who was so cool because she/he would let kids drink wine coolers while playing Spin The Bottle in the basement?    Now, if officials discover you are that parent, be prepared to pay up to $3,000 in fines.&nb ... More >>

Kelly Janeth Mejia, Fullerton Cop, Placed on Paid Leave for Alleged Theft of iPad in Miami

​Fullerton police officer Kelly Janeth Mejia was arrested last month for allegedly stealing an iPad from another traveler at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Miami International Airport.This week, the six-year veteran of the department was placed on paid administrati ... More >>

Ecstasy Bust at Shark Club Teen Party Harks Back to Nightspot's Dark Days

​The Shark Club's Gregg Hanour is a community leader when it comes to fighting the evils of being under the influence. The club owner is a member of Costa Mesa's Alcohol Impaired Driving Task Force. He's spoken at seminars organized by Orange County's Mothers Against Drunk Driving chapter. And he' ... More >>

Mara Lynnes Steves, OC Homicide No. 19: Struck and Killed by Drugged-Up Driver Moments After Saving Dog

​Sometimes bad things happen to really good people. The story of Mara Lynnes Steves is just such a circumstance. On a Sunday afternoon in mid-February, Steves had just saved a dog from oncoming traffic when an auto accident occurred in the same intersection. The driver who had run the red light, c ... More >>

LA County Settles Suit for $4.75 Million With Victims of '08 Crash Caused by Drunk Deputy Who OC Deputies Tried to Protect From DUI Test

​UPDATE, MAY 18, 4:29 P.M.: LA County supervisors have approved a $4.75 million settlement for two Anaheim residents, one of whom was critically injured, whose car was plowed into by a veteran Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy driving a department SUV under the influence in 2008.Robert Andrew M ... More >>

[UPDATED] Eddie Sanchez, Long Beach Cop Busted by Cops, Gets Community Service, Probation and DUI Classes

​UPDATE, MARCH 28, 5:25 P.M.: Long Beach police officer Eddie Sanchez has been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and weaving in and out of traffic lanes the afternoon of May 24, 2010, in Garden Grove.The 30-year-old, who was off-duty at the time of the boozy driving, pleaded gui ... More >>

Isaac Robert Longo, the Face of Marijuana Manslaughter?

​Don't be surprised if Isaac Robert Longo becomes a poster child for the evils of driving while high by forces girding to defeat marijuana legalization in California this November.After all, the 33-year-old Placentia man smoked pot before causing a five-car pileup on the 55 freeway in November 200 ... More >>

Bud Bashers Gather to Demonize Legalization

Illustration by Jay Brockman​Let the campaign against marijuana legalization in California begin! A coalition of clergy, law enforcement and assorted busy bodies gather under the Californians for Drug Free Youth banner in Universal City this morning to "raise awareness about the dangers of marijua ... More >>

Unattentive Driver Convicted in Crash That Killed Toddler

​Clockwork mentioned in October that Armstrong Owen Kitchen, 39, of Riverside, faced charges for crashing into the back of a sport utility vehicle, killing a 2-year-old toddler in her child safety seat. He pleaded guilty today to one misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter by unlawful act wit ... More >>

UPDATED: LA Deputy Who OC Deputies Tried to Protect From DUI Test Gets 6 Months for '08 Crash

UPDATED WITH SENTENCING CLARIFICATION . . . A deputy driving a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Chevrolet sports utility vehicle (but not necessarily this one) was convicted of DUI today.​The Orange County District Attorney's Office originally announced the sentence for Robert Andre ... More >>

Wilhite and MADD Get Support From Angels and "Ball Hawk"

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=foxsports&vid=fde644e7-f0f1-4dba-b689-30e71b3a9463" target="_new" title="Happy to be alive">Video: Happy to be alive</a&amp ... More >>

Welcome to the Poorhouse: Put-a-Head-on-It Edition

One thing I do miss about my life before the soul-crushing debt, round the clock collector calls and general feeling of numb is my nightly Newcastle. Ironically, it was around the time my financial house was falling down that I noticed the price of six packs, across the board, going up. Actually, th ... More >>

Help Titan Jon Wilhite, Honor Titan Courtney Stewart

It's been highly publicized that Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, was killed in a collision just after midnight Friday. Some reporters have even added that Courtney Frances Stewart, the 20-year-old Diamond Bar resident who was driving the Mitsubishi Eclipse Adenhart rode in, and another pass ... More >>

MADD Has Become "a Tastless Joke," According to Study Author

You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francis ... More >>

MADD's Not Buying Study That Shows Lower Drinking Age Saves Lives

Many of you reading this were not even born yet, but way, way, back in the 1990s, the early days when this was your daddy's OC Weekly, Mike Males was moonlighting stories for us while attaining a PhD in social ecology from UC Irvine. For instance, in February of 1999, Males wrote "Here Come the New ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Why Did Wayne Gross Recuse Himself From the Mike Carona Investigation?

Springtime Is the Right Time . . .

For getting a DUI

That's the Sound of the Police

I'm sitting in my friend J's living roomm and I can't leave. Two of Newport Beach's finest (well, two vehicles anyway, which could mean up to four cops) have pulled over a tan SUV in the tiny parking lot in which my car is parked. To try and depart now would involve some serious 187-style behavior. ... More >>

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