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A foreign-born big rig driver who speaks very limited English was charged with DUI in Florida this week, according to reports. The harrowing bust unfolded at around 1 p.m. on Tuesday in Sumter County. Concerned motorists reported an 18-wheeler swerving dangerously on I-75 and a responding Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper observed the vehicle nearly collide with an SUV, forcing that driver to take defensive action, an arrest report reviewed by Villages News states. The semi driver, identified as 36-year-old Numon Azimov, exhibited “bloodshot, watery eyes” and smelled of alcohol, FHP says. During the traffic stop, Azimov attempted to walk...

An exclusive Channel 2 Action News Investigation finds hundreds of Georgians arrested for DUI in 2025 later were proven to be sober by GBI blood tests. In suspected DUI cases, the GBI tests samples for drugs only if they are found to be under the legal limit for alcohol. Through an open records request, Channel 2 Action News Consumer Investigator Justin Gray obtained records showing that 701 people tested by the GBI in 2025 had no illegal or prescription drugs found in their system during toxicology screenings. [snip] Smyrna resident Lenny Daniel is one of those. “It’s a shame to...

More than a dozen people were injured when a car plowed through a crowd gathered for a cultural parade and festival in New ​Iberia, Louisiana Saturday, according to cops and local reports. At least 15 people were wounded, including some in critical condition, after a drunk driver barreled through parade-goers at the Lao New Year Festival at around 2:30 p.m., according to the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office and News15. Several pedestrians were directly struck by the car and two of the victims were airlifted to the hospital, Acadian ​Ambulance said on X. Officers took the driver, 57-year-old Todd Landry, into...

Car crash-prone Tiger Woods won’t hire a driver to cart him around because he’s too private — and doesn’t want anyone knowing his whereabouts. The 50-year-old golf legend opts to drive himself everywhere because he doesn’t want employees to “watch over him or know what he is doing,” a source told People. “And he thinks he is fine to drive,” the source added. Woods — who is worth $1.5 billion, according to Forbes — was arrested on suspicion of DUI following another rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Fla., last Friday. Woods, who was forced to crawl out of his...

Tiger Woods is paying the price for his humiliating DUI arrest in more ways than one, after going home to face his furious girlfriend Vanessa Trump after eight hours behind bars. The golf legend, 50, stunned the world when he flipped his Range Rover SUV onto its side in a high-speed crash on the millionaire's playground of Jupiter Island on Friday afternoon, clambering out of the passenger window in a daze before being arrested. He passed a breathalyzer test at the scene but refused a urine sample, with drug recognition experts 'believing he was not impaired by alcohol, but on...

Tiger Woods’ girlfriend Vanessa Trump and her two daughters Kai and Chloe were not in the golf legend’s luxury SUV when it rolled over in a two-car crash in Florida on Friday afternoon, sources said.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday, authorities said.

Car crash-prone Tiger Woods reportedly rolled his luxury SUV on Friday in yet another Florida roadway washout for the golf great. Woods’ condition after the Jupiter Island rollover crash wasn’t immediately clear, but a witness told TMZ that the golfer appeared to be fine. Photos from the two-vehicle crash shared by local outlet WPTV showed a Range Rover on its side along Beach Road. The fender fracas comes days after Woods, 50, made his golf return at the TGL Finals.

Forty-one DUI arrests made by a single Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper in Bedford County have been dismissed, with 22 of those cases involving drivers who had no alcohol or drugs in their system or were within legal limits.The dismissed cases all involved arrests made by former Trooper Asa Pearl between 2021 and 2024, according to records obtained from the Bedford County Clerk’s office.Pearl resigned from the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2024 with no reason given.

CLINTON — An East Feliciana judge denied an early release for a man who killed seven people in a 2012 drunk driving crash. Brett Gerald pleaded guilty to seven counts of vehicular homicide after he drunkenly drove on La. 67 in Slaughter, causing a head-on collision that killed a family of six and their friend. His blood-alcohol concentration at the time was nearly twice the legal limit, and he has a history of DUI arrests. Gerald was originally sentenced to 10 years of hard labor for each count, a total of 70 years. However, his sentence was cut in half...

A law going into effect at the beginning of 2026 will allow judges to restrict those convicted of ‘extreme DUI’ from purchasing alcohol, and ABC4 spoke to a family who lost a loved one to a drunk driver about the new law. Michelle Schmitt, communications director with Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services (DABS), said that the new law will require everyone to have their IDs checked, regardless of age or appearance, but more than that, it will restrict people convicted of “extreme DUI” from purchasing alcohol. “An extreme DUI is when someone is found to have a blood alcohol...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman held a press conference Monday to discuss the murder charges a woman faces in connection with a DUI crash that left a high school tennis prodigy dead earlier this year. Jenia Resha Belt was hit with a murder charge last week after she allegedly struck 18-year-old Braun Levi around 12:45 a.m. on May 4.

A little boy in Texas was the only member of his family to survive a horrific car crash caused by an alleged drunk driver. Nearly all members of the Contreras family were killed in Fort Bend around 2am on December 20, while driving home from a Christmas party, according to the Fort Bend Sheriff's Office.

A prominent Rhode Island Democrat was caught on camera belligerently chiding a cop and calling him a “d–k” during a wild DUI traffic stop where she ranted, “God forbid I was a black person, I’d be arrested.” Cranston Democratic Committee chair Maria Bucci — who is connected to the state gubernatorial candidate — berated police with a series of insults while asking them “You know who I am, right?” when she was pulled over shortly after midnight last Thursday on an East Greenwich road, the bodycam footage shows. The numerous outbursts took place while East Greenwich cops were attempting to...

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WPRI) — Maria Bucci, the chair of the Cranston Democrats and a former candidate for mayor, has been arrested and charged with driving drunk in East Greenwich. Body-worn camera video released by police shows that Bucci was pulled over on Division Road just after midnight Thursday. According to the police report obtained by 12 News, Bucci was stopped after an officer saw her swerving on the road. Her arrest was first reported by GoLocalProv. The report says Bucci’s vehicle had “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage” and she was slurring her words. “You know who I...

Authorities: Sen. Faith Winter ‘at fault’ in I-25 crash that killed her by: Parker Gordon Posted: Dec 19, 2025 / 05:30 PM MST Report: Winter's blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit at crash DENVER (KDVR) — An investigation into the deadly crash on Interstate 25 that resulted in the death of Colorado Sen. Faith Winter reportedly found Winter “was at fault,” according to law enforcement. On Friday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said that an investigation into the crash on Nov. 26 on northbound I-25 that claimed the life of Winter has determined that she was the at-fault...

A man accused of driving a pickup while intoxicated, crashing head-on into a car in rural East County and killing an 8-year-old girl over the weekend, was in the country illegally and had been previously convicted of DUI, according to authorities. Brayan Josue Alva Rodriguez, 25, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with Sunday’s crash on county Highway S-2, also known as San Felipe Road, near Ranchita, according to the District Attorney’s Office. He was among several injured in the crash and was arraigned in the hospital Tuesday. Alva, a Guatemalan national, was...

PASO ROBLES, Calif. (FOX26) — The principal of Paso Robles High School has been arrested for DUI. The Paso Robles Police Department says officers responded to the school campus on Monday after the Paso Robles Police Department's School Resource Officer received a report from Paso Robles Joint Unified School District staff about a possible staff member being under the influence of alcohol. The staff member was identified by the school as Megan Fletcher. Officers say she was found to have driven to the school while under the influence and was arrested for DUI. The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Cuqita Boyd got into a minor car wreck while driving to work in January 2022, then was charged with driving under the influence after an officer claimed she didn't follow directions during a field sobriety test. But Boyd was adamant she hadn't been drinking and asked to be given a Breathalyzer test on the side of the road to prove it so she wouldn't be late for her job as a U.S. postal worker. The Louisville Metro Police officer, Samantha Davenport, denied that request, later saying she didn't carry a portable Breathalyzer in her cruiser. That...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a fierce defender of sanctuary policies, is getting called out as an illegal alien is accused of killing a local elected Republican official and his wife last week. A 34-year-old illegal alien Edwin Pacheco-Meza of Honduras was driving a van on Oct. 24 when he crossed the center lane and struck 71-year-old Michael Clayton and his wife — killing them instantly. Clayton was a Republican who served on the Coles County Board. Pacheco-Meza, who crossed the southern border as an unknown got-away, was in his vehicle with illegal Juan Morales-Martinez of Guatemala, who crossed the...