Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jul 07, 2016 |
Don't feel like peeing in a cup for the cops? It turns out they have ways of taking your urine by force if necessary.
The Argus Leader reports that police in South Dakota have resorted to using catheters to extract urine samples from uncooperative suspects. This procedure, while endorsed by the ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | May 31, 2016 |
The Georgia Department of Driver Services is making changes after being sued for denying licenses to immigrants with a legal work permit.
A Fulton County Superior Court ruling is now forcing the department to start issuing the driver's licenses to immigrants, some of whom were once in the countr...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Dec 22, 2015 |
South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney Joe Mulholland says one of his assistants D.A.s will be disciplined internally, after he was arrested for DUI.The Georgia State Patrol charged Michael Bankston following an accident on US 19 in Baconton, that happened around 2:30 Wednesday morni...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Nov 23, 2015 |
The Valdosta Post of the Georgia State Patrol is making a coordinated effort to curb Distracted Driving. The GSP says there's been an increase of traffic crashes over the last several months, resulting in multiple injuries and several deaths.
Many of these traffic crashes could have been avoi...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Nov 23, 2015 |
Everyone has that friend who instigates a wild night out, encourages you to have one drink too many, but gets you home in one piece.
Now there's a 'smart beer mug' that does a similar thing.
Fitted with sensors, the ePint lights up when it is empty, keeps track of the number of drinks its user ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Oct 27, 2015 |
A Georgia man was accused of DUI and public drunkenness while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a grocery store Friday.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that 48-year-old Danny W. Mitchell was cited at a Kroger supermarket in Conyers.
According to an incident report, police who were ca...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Oct 19, 2015 |
Social media enthusiasts are in a frenzy over real-time platforms like Periscope. The idea that our lives can be streamed over the Internet as we live them is attractive to some. But for others, there is a downside, as demonstrated by the arrest of a Florida woman on Saturday.
“The police in Lak...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Oct 12, 2015 |
The Georgia State Patrol made 13 DUI arrests and issued several citations at three main road blocks they had set up in Cook County Saturday night.
The GSP set up multiple roadblocks on side roads in Adel to prevent people from driving impaired who were leaving the Luke Bryan Farm Tour show. ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Sep 29, 2015 |
Police and prosecutors in at least four metro counties say a big hospital system policy could hamper their efforts to put drunk drivers behind bars.
They say WellStar Health System recently put up a big road block between them and a growing number of DUI cases in Cobb, Paulding, Cherokee and Dou...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Aug 10, 2015 |
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently published their decision in State v. Zilke, No. A15A0279. Before Zilke, it was a well established law (O.C.G.A. 20-3-76) that campus police officers only had jurisdiction within 500 yards of their respective university campus. The trial court judge granted ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jul 29, 2015 |
On March 27th, 2015, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an opinion on Williams v. State. The Court found that an individual submitting to State testing for alcohol or drugs based on the officer reading the Georgia Implied Consent warning is no longer sufficient under Georgia law. Now the tri...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Mar 05, 2015 |
Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according t...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Feb 06, 2015 |
DUI convictions in Georgia have been dropping dramatically over a five-year period, state figures show.
There may be multiple reasons to account for the decline in convictions, experts say.
But they note that this decrease in convictions has coincided with an increase in the number of people ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jan 27, 2015 |
APD plans to have all beat cops receive formal DUI enforcement training, to increase DUI arrests in 2015.
Watch the video at the link below for more detailed information.
http://www.11alive.com/media/cinematic/video/22147391/atlanta-police-to-dismantle-dui-task-force/
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Dec 11, 2014 |
While the holiday season can also mean the drinking season for many partygoers this winter, the Governor's Office of Highway Safety and TEAM Georgia are warning Georgia motorists that ‘tis the season is not an excuse to drive impaired. During the holidays and any day of the year, there is nev...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Nov 19, 2014 |
http://www.walb.com/story/27054041/weekend-dui-stops
DOUGHERTY CO., GA- Close to three dozen South Georgians face DUI charges after two nights of road checks.Officers arrested 26 people Saturday night and Sunday morning in Dougherty and Lee Counties.
Some people who did not wan...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Oct 28, 2014 |
A 60-year-old Athens man died in police custody Sunday after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.
Officers responded to the area of Kathwood Drive late Sunday morning on reports that a vehicle had run over a stop sign and left the scene, Athens-Clark...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Oct 08, 2014 |
Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man's garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor's Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man's property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes.
T...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Sep 25, 2014 |
CONYERS — The Georgia State Patrol is putting an extra focus on drunk drivers along I-20 with a newly formed task force to target impaired drivers. GSP Troop E will patrol the troop's 21 assigned counties that run along Interstate 20 from Conyers to South Carolina.
Currently, 11 troopers ar...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Aug 16, 2014 |
http://gawker.com/washington-post-huffpo-reporters-arrested-in-ferguson-1621284034
Two reporters working out of a McDonalds in Ferguson, Mo. say they were arrested and assaulted for no apparent reason while covering the increasingly violent clash between police and protestors on Wednesday ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Aug 11, 2014 |
The Warwick city council has fired police chief David Morris.
In a letter to Morris, Mayor Juanita Kitchen said Morris was being fired for negligence, insubordination, and was unfit to perform his duties. The letter said Morris has not followed city policy on firing and disciplining officer...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jul 28, 2014 |
In an effort to curb the number of drunken-driving cases, law enforcement officials are going high-tech with roadside lasers that can detect the amount of alcohol exhaled by someone in a moving vehicle.
It should be noted that this technology is still in its early stages, but the potential i...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jul 03, 2014 |
Green Bay— Officer Joel Zwicky was on a routine patrol when he saw a guy on a dirt bike zooming along the Fox River State Recreational Trail, where motorized vehicles are not allowed. ...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jun 25, 2014 |
A report from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, stated problems with calibration affect 33 breathalyzer tests in Weld County, Colorado. The report indicates the device did not have the proper tolerance target entered during the initial certification process, and office...
Posted by Patrick Kunes | Jun 18, 2014 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire neighborhoods, The Associated Press has learned. Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened ...