Good riddance to this despicable little turd!
The following paragraph describing Rick Sanchez' December 10, 1990 DUI hit-and-run was scrubbed from Wikipedia about a year ago (2009). I saved this information before it was "mysteriously" deleted and printed it out:
DUI
On December 10, 1990, (Rick) Sanchez struck a pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium after Smuzinick darted into the road. Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died in an assisted living facility in 1995. Sanchez, who had just left an NFL football game with his father (and left the scene of the accident), was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to DUI. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said "smelled strongly of alcohol," first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez's sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Sanchez at first said he had consumed no alcohol the night of the accident. His attorney, Richard Essen, later said Rick returned home and had "a couple of drinks to calm his nerves" before returning to the scene. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.
Here are the sources for the above paragraph which was deleted from Rick Sanchez’s Wikipedia page on 10/14/09 between 8:30pm and 9:15pm ET:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1991-08-07/news/the-forgotten-man (This is a particularly devastating article)
http://www.observer.com/2007/rick-sanchez-cnn-s-teflon-man?page=1
Excerpts from the Observer article above:
Mr. Sanchez had already survived what would ordinarily be a career-killer*. While leaving a Miami Dolphins game with his father in 1990, Mr. Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, who later died of his injuries. According to police, Mr. Sanchez’s own blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, and he left the scene before returning. He ultimately pleaded no contest to a D.U.I. charge, but avoided jail time, and even remained on the air.
Asked about the incident, Mr. Sanchez’s Ron Burgundy jocularity vanished in an instant. “I don’t see where that has anything to do with anything,” he said, and called the inquiry “a hatchet question.”
He soon regained his cool though. “Was it an unfortunate experience? Yes. Was it a learning experience? Absolutely. Do I wish it hadn’t happened? Of course,” he allowed. “I was wrong, because I had a couple of cocktails, because I was over the legal limit,” he went on. “It could have happened to anybody. … There were probably a lot of other people leaving the stadium that had had a couple of beers as well.”
Rick Sanchez is a lying, scum-sucking POS. Hope he gets everything he "deserves" in life...