A Bartlesville man being arraigned on charges of driving under the influence in Oklahoma allegedly fell down drunk in front of a judge. Mark Watson was arrested for drunk driving around 2:30 am Sunday morning after being involved in a hit and run accident. He had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. When asked about the accident, Watson reportedly told officers, “I’m (expletive) drunk, I was driving but I did not run the stop sign. That (expletive) hit me.” After refusing to submit to a field sobriety test, he continued with his tirade, saying, “I ain’t taking no (expletive) test. I’m (expletive) drunk. I’m blind anyways and I can’t drive.” He then kicked the arresting officer.

When Watson appeared in court Monday morning, he was seated in a jury box when he fell and struck his head. Sheriff’s deputies administered a breath test and field sobriety tests and determined he was drunk. The judge doubled Watson’s bond to $15,000 and restricted him from consuming alcohol or being in places that serve alcohol.

Watson, 41, was originally charged with Oklahoma DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a suspended driver’s license and assault on a police officer. The DA’s office is considering public intoxication charges following the arraignment incident. Watson is due back in Washington County court on January 14, 2011.

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The University of Nebraska football team has suspended starting defensive tackle Baker Steinkuhler following an arrest for DUI in Lincoln. Police say the 21-year old was stopped around 1:45 Tuesday morning for driving without his headlights and for making a turn without signaling. Steinkuhler had a blood alcohol content of 0.115 percent. He is of legal drinking age but the threshold for intoxication while driving in Nebraska is 0.08%. Steinkuhler was booked for suspicion of drunk driving in Nebraska and is set to appear in Lancaster County court on January 4.

Coach Bo Pelini said that Steinkuhler will not join the football team for the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on December 30. The 6’6″, 290-pound Steinkuhler has played a key defensive role for the Huskers this season, starting all 13 games and collecting 46 tackles and 3-1/2 sacks.

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Police say a man drag racing in a dump truck was driving while intoxicated when he slammed into an oncoming vehicle, killing an elderly man.

Witnesses say that just before 5:00 pm Everado Nieto was driving one of two landscaping trucks stopped at a traffic light, apparently drag racing. Nieto was heading eastbound on Jericho Turnpike in a 2000 Ford dump truck when he crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a Mercedes Benz. The 86-year old male passenger in the Mercedes was killed. His 84-year old wife, who was driving, survived with critical injuries. A 63-year old passenger in the dump truck was also seriously injured.

Nieto, 32, was charged with New York DWI, aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter, assault and reckless driving and aggravated vehicular assault. He was being held on $500,000 bail after an arraignment last Tuesday. His driving record shows that his license had been suspended for 90 days last year after an arrest for driving while impaired and reckless driving in New York City. Nieto did have a valid license at the time of the crash.

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The Alabama State Patrol said it made 144 arrests for driving under the influence during their ‘Take Back Our Highways’ safety campaign. Conducted over the long Thanksgiving weekend, extra patrols were used to target drunk driving, speeding and seat belt violations.

The initiative started at 6:00 pm Wednesday and ended at midnight Sunday. In addition to the Alabama DUI arrests, 3,087 speeding tickets and 793 seat belt or child restraint citations were issued. 412 accidents were investigated that left six dead.

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John Katonah, the owner of a Christian radio station in upstate New York, was arrested in Palm Beach County Florida on an outstanding warrant and extradited to New York. Katonah is said to have violated a judge’s protection order requiring him to stay away from his family.

In addition to violation of the protection order, Katonah recently was charged with criminal trespass after he was discovered in a neighbor’s barn, and with driving while intoxicated in New York.

Katonah is a former town councilmember in Montgomery, New York. He was arrested for reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm in 2005, and for criminal mischief associated with a domestic dispute in 2008.

On the current violation, he remains in Orange County NY jail on $10,000 bond.

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It appears the impact of consuming alcohol goes beyond humans. In northeastern India, elephants broke into earthenware vessels containing a fermented rice based drink made by remote villagers, and proceeded to get drunk. Over a four day rampage, a herd of 70 elephants killed three people and destroyed 60 homes in several villages in the states of Orissa and West Bengal.

The villagers had stockpiled the alcoholic beverage for an upcoming festival, and the elephants found it. The interaction between man and beast has become more frequent as villagers encroach on traditional elephant grazing grounds. The pachyderms have become semi-urbanized, no longer avoiding contact with humans and actively seeking out tastier foods found in villages.

During the latest incident, the elephants staggered around while intoxicated, causing mayhem and damage. They were found later sleeping off their hangovers. Elephants kill about 400 people are killed each year in India and destroy 2.5 million acres of farmland. Approximately 100 elephants are killed.

A woman suspected of drunk driving lead police on a high speed chase from East LA to Garden Grove late Monday night. The incident began around 11:12 pm on the Long Beach Freeway when the unidentified driver of a Toyota Corolla failed to yield and fled from a California Highway Patrol officer. At first hitting speeds of 90 mph, the chase continued on the San Gabriel River Freeway and the Santa Ana Freeway at speeds of up to 120 mph.

The chase ended at 11:44 pm on Garden Grove Boulevard, west of Knott Street. The driver was arrested for several traffic offenses and for driving under the influence in California.

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An off-duty officer with the New York Police Department was charged with DWI early Thanksgiving Day. Anthony Rodriguez was found around 3:00 am asleep at the wheel of his car, parked in a no-standing zone. He refused to submit to a breath test and the arrest report said he had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech.

Rodriguez is the second officer in a week to be arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated in New York, and the fifth officer booked on criminal charges in the same time frame.

NYPD has suspended Rodriguez pending an investigation.

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A nineteen-year old pulled a gun on a McDonald’s employee at a drive-thru window in Colorado Springs around 11:20 Saturday night. Police stopped Delteek Wilson shortly after and arrested the teen for felony menacing, prohibited use of a weapon and driving under the influence in Colorado.

Two handguns were found in Wilson’s vehicle. Two passengers were questioned and released.

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A University of Colorado student was arrested for riding a bike under the influence around 11:30 Saturday night after an unsteady ride through Boulder. Nineteen year old Patricia Forget rode her mountain bike through a red light at a major intersection and struck a car. Fortunately the driver saw Forget coming and remained stationery. Forget steadied herself by placing her hand on the hood of the car and then pedaled off only to strike the curb of the median and fall over.

A Boulder police officer who observed all this initiated a traffic investigation. Forget reportedly had red and watery eyes, laughed at inappropriate times and admitted she should not be riding her bike because she was “too drunk”. She failed a series of field sobriety tests and had a blood alcohol content of 0.215%.

Forget was booked for drunk riding and the bike was confiscated for evidence. Police say this is the fifth DUI arrest of the year of a suspected drunken cyclist. There were three such arrests in 2008 and five last year.

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