Former Pittsburgh news anchor Don Cannon was arrested in Southern California on November 17 for failure to serve Pennsylvania drunk driving sentences. Cannon, 69, was arrested on a bench warrant issued by Allegheny County in association with two incidents of driving under the influence in western Pennsylvania.

Cannon was supposed to begin serving house arrest and probation for PA DUI last month. He moved to Carlsbad California after pleading guilty to drunk driving in Pennsylvania in 2008. The Allegheny County Sheriff

El Paso Sheriff’s Department deputies have arrested a man a man who caused a serious accident, and charged him with driving while intoxicated in Texas. Deni Aaron Salas-Torres was reportedly driving a 1995 Geo Prism westbound on Interstate 10 at a high rate of speed around 4:00 am Saturday. He struck the back end of a trailer being hauled by a 2001 Dodge Durango, causing the Durango to swerve and hit a concrete barrier. The trailer then detached from the vehicle and the Durango flipped about four times before coming to a rest.

Both people in the Durango and a passenger in Salas-Torres’ vehicle were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.

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The daughter of Sen. John Kerry was arrested early Thursday morning for driving under the influence in Los Angeles. Alexandra Forbes Kerry was stopped in the Hollywood area around 12:40 am for a traffic violation. She refused to submit to a preliminary breath test and, after reportedly failing a field sobriety test and appearing to be under the influence of an intoxicant, was booked on suspicion of CA DUI. At the LAPD station she did submit to a breath test and registered a blood alcohol content of .06%. Under California DUI law, a motorist can be charged with DUI with a BAC under the legal limit of .08% if the officer feels the vehicle is being operated unsafely.

Kerry posted $5000 bond and was released around 5:30 am. The Los Angeles City Attorney is reviewing the case but it is suspected that formal charges will not be pursued.

Alexandra Forbes Kerry, 36, is the oldest daughter of former presidential candidate John Kerry. She is a documentary producer and occasional actor living in Southern California.

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Lt. Robert McGee, with the Cobb County Police Department, was charged with driving under the influence in Georgia after he was in a hit and run accident. The accident occurred on October 26 at Chastain Road and George Busbee Parkway in Kennesaw.

McGee turned himself in and was booked at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on charges of GA DUI, hit and run and following too closely.

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The Colorado State Patrol has released the number of arrests for CO DUI over the Halloween weekend. Twenty-two law enforcement agencies from across the state cooperated in the targeting of drunk driving. Their efforts netted 350 arrests for driving under the influence in Colorado.

The State patrol reported the highest number of DUI arrests at 111. Denver police followed with 62 arrests and Colorado Springs with 41. The arrests were made between October 30 and November 2.

Another statewide DUI crackdown is scheduled for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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A motorized chair built by Dennis LeRoy Anderson gained notoriety after he was busted for driving while intoxicated in Minnesota last year. The recliner is powered by a lawnmower engine and features a stereo, cup holders, headlights a nitrous oxide power boost system and a parachute.

Anderson had a blood alcohol content more than three and a half times the legal limit for intoxication when he struck a parked car in August 2008 on his way home from a bar. The 62-year old man from near Duluth eventually pleaded guilty to MN DWI, and the Proctor Police Department impounded his special chair. As allowed under Minnesota DWI law, the police placed the chair on eBay, with all proceeds going to the police department. They had received bids over $43,000 before it was revealed that the chair was not a ‘La-Z-Boy’ brand as initially advertised, so the bidding started again.

The new winning bid was for $10,099.99.

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A postal worker in Boynton Beach is facing charges of driving under the influence in Florida after being found slumped over the steering wheel of his mail truck. Kevin Crocilla registered a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit for intoxication in Florida. Witnesses had contacted a fire-rescue team thinking Crocilla may be suffering from a medical condition.

Crocilla said that he had been up all night drinking wine and then drank half a bottle of mouthwash to mask the smell of alcohol. He had arrived at work at 11:00 am.

Crocilla, 29, reportedly stumbled while exiting the mail truck and was unable to complete a field sobriety test because he couldn

A 911 dispatcher in Neilsville, Wisconsin received a phone call from a woman reporting a drunk driver. When asked if she was following the suspected impaired driver, the woman replied “I am them”.

Mary Strey, 49, admitted being drunk after “drinking all night long” and was concerned about hurting someone. The dispatcher instructed her to pull over and turn on her emergency flashers. Clark County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jim Backus said Strey was found about three miles northeast of Neilsville, in central Wisconson. Her phone call, and the fact that she had a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit, lead to charges of driving under the influence in Wisconsin.

Chief Deputy Backus said DUI self-reporting is rare.

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Stephanie Pratt was arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles early Sunday morning on October 18. The actress reportedly had tweeted earlier in the evening that she was attending fellow ‘Hills’ star Heidi Montag’s birthday party at ‘Empire’, a Hollywood hotspot. The two left the party around 2:00am and headed to ‘Beso’ for another hour.

Pratt was stopped in Hollywood around 3:45 am and booked for suspicion of California DUI. She posted $5000 bond and was released around 10:00 am Sunday.

The day before her CA DUI arrest, Pratt had told a tabloid website that she was focused on safe driving because a friend had passed away following a car accident. She said that ‘everyone needs to drive safe.’

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The state high court issued a ruling stating that a man stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence in Pennsylvania twice on one night cannot be sentenced as a repeat offender.

The defendant was stopped for suspicion of impaired driving at around 11:45pm and booked for DUI in PA after registering a blood alcohol content of .16%. About 90 minutes after being released to the custody of his wife, the defendant was arrested for DUI a second time. His BAC at the time of the second traffic stop was .146%.

Prosecutors filed charges relevant to second offense DUI in Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court, however, found that the defendant must be convicted of the first violation before having elevated charges filed against him for a second offense.

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