Tag Archives: DUI

Peninsula Teenagers Have Drinking Problem

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What about the teachers? I remember one in particular at PG High. Don’t forget Frank Abbruzzetti the PGMS teacher that was arrested for operating a meth lab. Recently another teacher and meth story surfaced in the Bay Area – this one was videotaping the girls in the bathroom next to his classroom.

Forty-four percent of 11th-graders surveyed in the Peninsula’s high schools from fall 2004 to spring 2006 admitted to consuming some alcohol within the 30 days prior to the survey, compared to 37 percent in the county and statewide.

The data were gathered by the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, a state-funded repository of health education materials in Hayward, and analyzed by IMPACT for Youth, a organization in Pacific Grove focused on raising awareness about alcohol and drug abuse among teens.

Reducing alcohol consumption can also reduce some risky behavior among teenagers, such as drunken driving, Myer said.

Peninsula Teenagers Have Drinking Problem

P.G. Man Spits At Carmel Cops In DUI Arrest

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The altercation occurred after police took Soney Bae into custody for suspected drunken driving and drove him to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula for a blood test because he refused to submit to a breath test, according to Cpl. Steve Rana. “He kept on getting more and more aggressive and refused to walk with the officers back to the car,” Rana said of Soney Bae, who had also refused to identify where he lived and began yelling and swearing loudly in Japanese and English. “He broke away from them a couple of times. He got away but was stumbling drunk and fell down.” Bae then reportedly spat at one of the cops. The officers finally succeeded in getting him back in their car and took him to Monterey County Jail.

P.G. Man Spits At Carmel Cops In DUI Arrest

DUI Wrecks. Closes Lighthouse Avenue

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At least it was at 1 AM and not in the middle of the day.

A 19-year-old Seaside man was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving following an accident on Lighthouse curve in Monterey early this morning.

The driver of the Mercedes sedan, identified as Rajiv Pahalad, suffered injuries that required hospitalization, but was arrested by police after his release from the hospital.

DUI Wrecks. Closes Lighthouse Avenue

Tourist Promoter Takes Drunken Drive Through Store

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And it was the BBQ sauce on the car that helped police catch up to the arrest . .

Geoffrey David Langkamp

Police said Geoffrey David Langkamp 28, drove his silver 2007 Toyota FJ through the store’s front doors and through numerous displays, products and other items. Employees discovered the mess shortly before 5 a.m.

Using a hubcap, broken turn signal and other car parts found inside the store, officers visited a Toyota dealership and identified the kind of vehicle involved in the escapade, said police spokesman Phil Penko.

A close inspection of Langkamp’s car revealed glass fragments on the roof that were from the store’s doors, police said. Barbecue sauce that was in one of the store’s displays was slathered on the vehicle’s wheels and door wells.Langkamp told detectives he didn’t remember driving through the store, Penko said.

Langkamp told detectives that he was drinking earlier that night, Penko said.

Langkamp is listed as director of interactive media for Traveleze.com, which several years ago began setting up information kiosks for visitors in Cannery Row and other high-traffic attractions.

No one ever said drunks were smart – must be why the dorky looking guy didn’t crawl home and report his SUV being stolen.

Tourist Promoter Takes Drunken Drive Through Store

DUI Causes Major Injuries To Monterey Man

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And the man charged with DUI was not the injured one…

A Monterey man was seriously injured after his vehicle was hit head-on by a man suspected of driving under the influence Wednesday night, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Officers said Lance Millington, 55, was taken to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with major injuries after his vehicle was hit just after 10 p.m. on Holman Highway, west of Scenic Drive.

William Boyd, 55, of Monterey lost control of his eastbound vehicle and swerved into the opposing lane, officers said, striking Millington’s vehicle, which left the roadway and went down a 10-foot embankment.

Boyd was arrested and charged with DUI causing injuries.

DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.

DUI Causes Major Injuries To Monterey Man

Drunk Driver Plows Into Mother & Child In Pebble Beach

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A baby boy is recovering in a hospital today after an allegedly drunken driver ran into his stroller and knocked down his mother as they were walking in Pebble Beach on Thursday, the California Highway Patrol reported today.

Michael Angel Sanchez Gutierrez, 22, of Seaside, was arrested after the 3:10 p.m. collision on suspicion of felony drunken driving, driving without a license and having no proof of insurance, CHP said.

Witnesses told investigators Gutierrez was traveling between 40 and 55 mph just before the collision. The speed limit at that stretch of the roadway is 25 mph, Starkey said.

Gutierrez was booked into Monterey County jail. The Ford is registered to Jose Lopez of Seaside and the CHP is currently investigating whether Lopez illegally allowed an unlicensed driver to operate his truck.

DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.

Drunk Driver Plows Into Mother & Child In Pebble Beach

Drunk Driver Wipes Out 5 Cars On Lighthouse Ave

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A man apparently under the influence of prescription drugs and alcohol smashed into five parked vehicles along Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove Saturday afternoon.

Arrested was Steven Nacchitello, 49, of Fremont, who was given a Breathalyzer test which showed he been drinking.

DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.

Drunk Driver Wipes Out 5 Cars On Lighthouse Ave.

Drunk Driver Injures 2 At David & Lighthouse

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A Pebble Beach woman was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol in a crash Wednesday at Lighthouse and David avenues that injured two motorists.

Monterey police said Karen Shoemaker hit a car that had stopped at a red light.

DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.

Drunk Driver Injures 2 At David & Lighthouse

Holman Highway Head On, DUI Suspected

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Barry Fahringer, 50, of Monterey was headed west in a Chevy pickup that crossed into an eastbound lane and collided with a car driven by Texas resident Thomas Uiselt and a second car driven by Christina Laufo, 59, of Seaside.

Uiselt, 39, and his wife, Amy, sustained cuts and bruises, while Laufo and her passenger, Naomi Lake, 47, of Marina, received moderate injuries, the CHP reported.

DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.

Holman Highway Head On, DUI suspected

Dennis McCormick Supplied Teen Daughter With Alcohol

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..the testimony established that the driver was on probation following a previous drunken driving conviction, that she had bragged about her partying habits and that her father, Dennis McCormick, had bought the alcohol that the girl drank that day, before and while driving.

The 17-year-old driver is charged with second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence, causing bodily injury while driving under the influence, vehicle theft, and driving with a suspended license.

The accused teen sat next to her lawyer, Larry Biegel, as Hardee testified about the girl’s history and the day of the accident.

Dana McCormick was later convicted of second-degree murder for drunken driving and sentenced to the California Youth Authority until she turns 25 years old.

Her father, Dennis Dewayne McCormick, 52, was sentenced in November to two consecutive one-year terms in Monterey County jail after he pleaded guilty to buying his daughter alcohol.

Dennis McCormick Supplied Teen Daughter With Alcohol