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Cop: Driver of Van in Adenhart Crash Drank (Angels' Pitcher)
TMZ.com ^ | 04/09/09 | TMZ Staff

Posted on 04/09/2009 12:20:32 PM PDT by Big_Monkey

During the Nick Adenhart press conference, a Fullerton PD spokesman said the man who caused the accident that killed Nick and two others was under the influence of alcohol at the time.

The spokesman also said he believes the man, 22-year-old Andrew Gallo, was also driving on a suspended license because of a prior DUI. The cop said Gallo will probably be booked on felony hit-and-run, felony DUI, vehicular manslaughter and possibly murder.

Also -- the Angels game tonight has been canceled


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: adenhart; alcohol; angels; baseball; dui; dwi; mlb
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How sad. The driver who caused the crash was driving on a suspended license because of a prior DUI - pathetic.
1 posted on 04/09/2009 12:20:32 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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It’s so sad. I saw him pitch last night. AMAZING game, too bad they ended up blowing the lead and losing the game. The bastard that drove drunk should NOT have even been driving. He had a suspended license and previous DUI arrests. I hope he is charged with 1st degree murder and giving the death penalty. He took away 3 innocent lives. He deserves to fry


2 posted on 04/09/2009 12:29:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Big_Monkey

The driver was an illegal I assume.


3 posted on 04/09/2009 12:32:42 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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How can it be possible that a person with a suspended license be driving a car in the first place?


4 posted on 04/09/2009 12:33:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 38 days from outliving Andre the Giant)
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To: SamAdams76

Sometimes, some people will break the law.


5 posted on 04/09/2009 12:34:34 PM PDT by John W
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To: Uncle Hal

Not profiling or anything but I think Gallo is an Italian name ...


6 posted on 04/09/2009 12:34:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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How can it be possible that a person with a suspended license be driving a car in the first place?

you ought to sit in a traffic court sometime. You'd be amazed at the number of DWS cases.

7 posted on 04/09/2009 12:35:12 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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and a northen California wine maker’s


8 posted on 04/09/2009 12:35:52 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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"The driver was an illegal I assume.

Hard to tell from just the picture. It is SoCal after all. But, it's certainly possible. From what I understand, Latino illegals do have a slightly higher DUI incident rate than the general population.

9 posted on 04/09/2009 12:35:55 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: SkyDancer

and a northern California wine maker’s


10 posted on 04/09/2009 12:36:00 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: SeaHawkFan

And, in Indiana they aren’t automatically jailed when stopped and caught anymore as they used to be because of BMV’s error rate on technical suspensions.


11 posted on 04/09/2009 12:37:34 PM PDT by John W
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Not profiling or anything but I think Gallo is an Italian name ...

Do you really think that matters to the "illegals musta dunnit" crowd?

12 posted on 04/09/2009 12:38:21 PM PDT by r9etb
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I have often stated that DUI drivers at the scene of accidents they caused - should be immediately shot.

Those not shot immediately, later being found to have been previously convicted of DUI — should THEN be shot.

Excessive? No.... It's our tolerance of scofflaws who kill people that HAS been excessive.

13 posted on 04/09/2009 12:38:30 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Thinking the same too - probably not of the same family though .... BTW, lots of people slam Gallo wine as trash. I happen to like it. I’ve been to many wine tasting parties and invariably they’ll serve up Gallo in a fancy bottle and people couldn’t tell the difference from real expensive stuff ....


14 posted on 04/09/2009 12:38:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Not profiling or anything but I think Gallo is an Italian name ...

Could be either. Gallo means rooster in Spanish.

15 posted on 04/09/2009 12:38:54 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'd rather be eating sushi off Nicole Scherzinger's nekkid body.)
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Probably not ... I guess any crime done these days is attributed to an illegal ...


16 posted on 04/09/2009 12:39:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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in SO. CAL you’d have a 50/50 chance of being right.


17 posted on 04/09/2009 12:40:20 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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Been reading how much of a problem it is there ...


18 posted on 04/09/2009 12:41:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: r9etb

Yes... it matters. And yes it’s reasonable to flash on this as the act of an illegal immigrant. There has been so much crime perpetrated by illegal immigrants that it would be silly not to ask the question.

In this instance it wasn’t. So what.


19 posted on 04/09/2009 12:42:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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The spokesman also said he believes the man, 22-year-old Andrew Gallo, was also driving on a suspended license because of a prior DUI.

This should be considered felony murder, not manslaugther. He deliberately drove drunk with his license suspended due to a previous DUI. This makes the second DUI a felony. He killed Nick Adenhart durning the commission of a felony.

20 posted on 04/09/2009 12:45:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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