A Florida man suspected of driving under the influence in Kentucky led police on a 20 mile chase on Interstate 75. Troopers initiated a traffic stop at 7:00 am Sunday morning but the driver, Allan Mitchell, fled at speeds in excess of 95 miles per hour.

Mitchell stopped near mile marker 125 and, as troopers approached the vehicle, he shot himself. He then attempted to flee again, racing across three lanes of the highway before crashing into a concrete barrier. Mitchell was transported to a local hospital where he died.

During a search of Mitchell’s vehicle, officers found seven pounds of marijuana, cash and drug paraphernalia. Had he survived, Mitchell would have been charged with Kentucky DUI, drug possession and evading arrest. He had warrants for his arrest on drug and traffic charges in Ohio and Florida.

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The Governor’s Highway Safety Program has announced that 1,291 motorists were arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated in North Carolina during the statewide ‘Booze It & Lose It: Operation Firecracker’ campaign. The effort included assistance from state and local law enforcement agencies and was conducted between June 28 and the close of the Fourth of July weekend.

‘Booze It & Lose It’ included 4,609 sobriety checkpoints and dedicated North Carolina DWI patrols. A total of 49,235 traffic and criminal citations were issued for offenses including speeding, reckless driving, possession of drugs and failure to use a seatbelt.

The counties with the highest number of arrests for DWI in North Carolina were Mecklenburg, Wake and New Hanover.

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A Boca Raton man has been charged with drunk driving in Florida after he deliberately drove his SUV into the front of his house. The man’s wife told police that he had become jealous and angry at a Fourth of July party because she was playing guitar with two men. The pair continued to fight on the drive home. The wife and four children got out of the vehicle when they arrived home and went into the house. Moments later there was a loud boom and the wife found the SUV in the living room.

Responding officers found the front door, window and exterior wall in pieces. Joesph Loprette, 48, was sitting on the couch and his wife was crying hysterically in the bathroom. The children were in the back room of the house. Police checked out Loprette and found he smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. He refused to submit to a breath test and allegedly said, “Put me in cuffs, take me to jail, let’s go.’

Loprette faces charges of driving under the influence in Florida, DUI with property damage, aggravated assault and criminal mischief.

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New York State Police charged a Wappinger man with drunk driving on Saturday night while he was riding an all-terrain vehicle. Daniel Alexander was allegedly riding on property without permission and police arrived on the scene around 9:00 pm. Alexander fled, driving onto a nearby roadway. He was stopped a short distance away and police checked for intoxication. Alexander’s blood alcohol content registered .08%, right at the legal limit.

Alexander, 46, has a prior conviction within ten years for driving while intoxicated in New York, so the current charge was filed as a felony. He was also charged with failure to wear a helmet, operating on private property without permission, operating an unlicensed ATV and operating an ATV on a public roadway. Alexander was issued traffic tickets and ordered to appear in municipal court on July 20.

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Over the Fourth of July weekend, Louisiana State Police arrested 229 motorists for driving while intoxicated. Of that number, five involved a ‘No Refusal’ initiative where the motorists were required to provide blood samples to check blood alcohol content.

The ‘No Refusal’ campaign was conducted in selected areas around the state. When a law enforcement officer suspected drunk driving in Louisiana and the motorist refused to submit to a breath test, a search warrant was requested from a judge. The warrant allowed troopers to take the LA DWI suspect to a medical facility and have a blood sample drawn. Though the BAC result would not be known until the sample was tested at a toxicology lab, the suspects were arrested for DWI in Louisiana and booked into jail.

State troopers say that the drunk driving crackdown contributed to only one traffic related death over the extended Independence Day weekend. Investigators of that single vehicle accident suspect the victim was not impaired, and suffered injuries from not wearing a seat belt.

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A 48-year old Germanton woman was charged with DUI in Tennessee after police found her slumped over the steering wheel of her car in front of a middle school. Thursday morning Kelly Moss was found partly parked on the school driveway and sidewalk. According to the arrest report, Moss displayed slurred speech and was unable to stand or walk without assistance. Her breath also had a strong odor of vanilla.

An officer found cans of Diet Coke and partially empty bottles of vanilla extract in the front seat of the vehicle. The extract was 35 per cent alcohol by volume.

Moss refused to submit to a breath test or perform field sobriety tests. She was booked for driving under the influence in Tennessee. It is her third TN DUI arrest. Her bond was set at $4000.

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A Gastonia woman was charged with driving while intoxicated in North Carolina twice in two hours. Kelly Michelle Ray was stopped around 2:41 am on Sunday for having a burned out bulb over her license plate. The officer conducting the traffic stop suspected Ray was impaired and a breath test revealed a blood alcohol content of .15%. The legal limit for driving while impaired in NC is .08%.

Ray was released on bond for the first DWI arrest. She was picked up by her boyfriend but was taken directly to her 2002 Chevrolet and she proceeded to drive away.

At 4:45 am another Gastonia officer stopped Ray for crossing the center line of a two lane road. A breath test registered a BAC of .10%. With the second arrest, a magistrate ordered Ray be jailed on $5000 bond and held until sober.

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A Clarksville, Tennessee woman has been arrested for driving under the influence four times in four months. Nicole Santos was arrested June 27, 2010 after her car left the road and traveled nearly the length of a football field, knocking down three light poles. She was driving home from a bar.

Santos, who turned 21 early this year, had previously been arrested for DUI in Tennessee on February 2, April 10 and May 21. She was also convicted of drunk driving in 2007, when she was 18 years old.

Santos’ bond was set at $5000, which she posted within a few hours of her arrest. She has not been to court on any of the recent TN DUI arrests, and the 2007 conviction is the only current mark on her driving record.

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A 51-year old man with the name Donald Duck was charged with drunk driving in Ohio after an incident at a Little Caesar’s Pizza druve-thru. Duck allegedly repeatedly struck the vehicle ahead of him with his 1998 Jeep. Investigating Massillon Police Department officers said that Duck had red-glassy eyes and smelled of alcohol. When the OH DUI suspect opened his door a bag of marijuana fell out of the vehicle.

Duck has four previous convictions for driving under the influence in Ohio, as well as arrests for driving with a suspended license. A police department spokesperson said that Duck is a “frequent flyer”.

Duck was booked at the Stark County jail on third degree felony charges of DUI in Ohio, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Vince Neil was stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence in Las Vegas early this morning. The former Motley Crue frontman was booked for Nevada DUI at the Clark County Jail, and his bond has been set at $2000. There are few details currently about the arrest, though it reportedly involved an accident.

Neil, 49, has a series of run-ins with law enforcement, including assaulting a music producer in 2002, attacking a prostitute at a Nevada brothel in 2003 and striking a sound engineer at a show in Texas in 2004.

Neil split from the band in 1992 and has pursued a number of business ventures, including a private line of tequila, a strip club, tattoo parlors and a restaurant named ‘Dr. Feelgood’s Bar and Grill’. He released ‘Tattoos and Tequila’, his first solo album in 15 years, on June 22.

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