This Week’s DWI Shorts

Really Odd DWI News - Repeats

Two New York DWI arrests in three hours – Oneida County sheriff’s deputies stopped Victor C. Sauerhafer around 1:30 am for erratic driving and charged him with driving while intoxicated in New York after a breath test registered a blood alcohol content of .25%. Sauerhafer, 37, was issued a ticket and released to a third party. Shortly after 4:00 am police a 911 call alerted them to Sauerhafer’s vehicle again. His BAC was still nearly three times the legal limit, indicating that he had consumed considerably more alcohol. The high BAC qualified for charges of aggravated DWI and the second offense was filed as a felony. A spokesperson with the sheriff’s department said the situation was “unusual, but it does happen.”

California DUI after two wrecks in six hours on same highway – Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett rolled a county-owned SUV around 1:30 pm on a California desert highway about 30 miles southwest of Pahrump, Nevada. Police did not suspect alcohol and Beckett managed to catch a ride to his home in Pahrump in a tow truck. After dinner, Beckett, 49, then headed back out and wrecked the family 2005 Dodge van around 7:30 pm on the same highway. A California Highway Patrol officer responding to the second accident scene detected alcohol. After Beckett failed a field sobriety test, he was charged with drunk driving in California. Beckett said he was driving to Santa Barbara to attend an annual meeting of the State Bar of Nevada.

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