A 32-year-old Harris County man has been charged with his eighth DUI in 12 years. Now the Harris County District Attorney's office is trying to keep the man in jail. Gustavo Marroquin was taken into custody by La Porte police this week when they pulled him over for speeding and found he was intoxicated. Marroquin [...]
The suspect in a DUI crash that severely injured a La Porte woman has turned himself in. James Hutchins, 27, demolished the SUV of Kelley Schoppe on September 6. She was on her way to deliver cookies to nurses working overtime in the aftermath of Harvey. Hutchins has been charged with intoxication assault as a [...]
A driver is facing charges after crashing his pickup truck into a neighbor's home. The La Porte man is reportedly a local firefighter. Andrew Stevens is being charges with unlawful carrying of a gun in addition to driving while intoxicated. According to reports it was around 11 p.m. when Stevens' truck went through a neighbors' [...]
A Houston man recently was given life in prison for his ninth DWI conviction. According to reports, he's been getting DWI convictions since 1980. Donald Middleton, who is 56 years old, already had spent four separate times in prison as a result of his drunken driving. In May 2015 he was arrested and charged for [...]
A 33-year-old man was arrested for public intoxication and died in a Houston police jail about eight hours after being arrested. The man was arrested after he caused a disturbance on Houston's west side around 1:30 a.m. He was charged also with resisting arrest. After the man's booking, police placed him in a jail cell [...]
Police arrested a 29-year-old man in Conroe, Texas Monday evening after he allegedly abandoned his infant son after a rollover accident in July. James Williams Hammons, Jr. has been charged with a number of charges, which include child abandonment, driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 years of age and felony failure to stop [...]
The family of a nine-year-old girl who was recently killed by an alleged drunk driver in Harris County has spoken out. Salvador Delao, 23, is charged with intoxication manslaughter in connection with the death of Jade Stephens. Jade's family had taken her out for new clothes and other birthday treats, and on their way back [...]
Four Hospitalized After Car Crashes into Home Four people were hospitalized last week when a car crashed through a Carrolton, TX home. A car crashed through two fences and into the back of the home around 3:30 p.m. last Thursday. Three people were in the house at the time, a mother and her two children. [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended May 14 that a decade-old benchmark for determining drunkenness should be lowered in all 50 states in an effort to reduce drunk-driving deaths. United States Safety Investigators recommended that the threshold be lowered from .08 to .05 to determine when a driver is drunk. This is part of a [...]
TxDOT Urges Drivers to Get a Summer P.A.S.S. (via PR Newswire) AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Summer, a time for fun and celebration. But it also brings many alcohol-related crash fatalities. Because of this, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is launching its first summer drinking and driving outreach program [...]