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Santa Rosa Man Arrested On Monday For 3rd DUI Since May

SANTA ROSA – On Monday, 23-year-old Israel Orozco Castellanos was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol for the third time since May. According to CHP Officer Jon Sloat, Castellanos was found unconscious by the cops around 1:30 p.m. in the driver’s seat of a Ford Mustang. The passenger door of the vehicle was open and Castellanos was holding a bottle of beer in his hand when the cops approached his car. The location was… Read More

22-year-old Santa Rosa man arrested for fatal Hit-and-Run and DUI

ROHNERT PARK – 22-year-old Gyvaughn Smith was taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of DUI and a fatal hit-and-run collision with a bicyclist which left him dead in Sonoma County. The accident happened at 4:40 a.m. and the location was Stony Point Road, north of Millbrae Avenue near Rohnert Park. He left the accident spot and the cops found him driving his Jeep Liberty 25 minutes later on Stony Point Road near Sebastopol Road. Smith’s vehicle was not the… Read More

52-Year-Old San Francisco Man Arrested For Alleged DUI In North Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 52-year-old Jacky Shiuman Chow was taken into custody on suspicion of driving drunk and hitting 2 vehicles in separate hit-and-run collisions. On Saturday, Chow hit a car near the intersection of Old Redwood Highway and North McDowell Boulevard and escaped the accident spot. The accident happened at about 3:45 p.m. and the police was made aware of it. After some time, a second accident was reported and the description of the vehicle matched the one involved… Read More

San Francisco Educator Accused Of DUI Child Endangerment

54-year-old Katherine Morgan, who was serving as a dean and guidance counselor at Galileo High School, was taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol on 13th of April and was arraigned on Thursday on charges of intoxicated driving as well as child endangerment. She pleaded not guilty and according to her attorney, none of them will comment on the case. She is summoned to court again on 24th of May. After the incident happened at Palenque restaurant… Read More

1 Killed And Five Injured In San Francisco Shooting

San Francisco, CA – On Friday night, a shooting incident left 1 individual dead and 5 injured. The incident happened at about 11 p.m. and the location was Third Street and Quesada Avenue. 6 individuals were the target of the shooting from which 1 died due to a gunshot wound while others got injured. Nobody was taken into custody as a suspect and further details were not available. The case is still under investigation by the San Francisco Police Department…. Read More

Repeat DUI Offender From South San Francisco Arrested For Drunken Driving

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – On Saturday, 50-year-old Raj Kohli, who had several prior DUI convictions, was taken into custody again on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Last time, he was taken into custody for the same offense just a few days ago. On Saturday, the cops stopped his vehicle as they were monitoring a neighborhood near Baypark Circled and realized that he was behind the wheel drunk. The cops also came to know that he was driving… Read More

Tesla Owner Suspected Of DUI Uses “Car Was Set On Autopilot” As Defense After Crash

A person behind the wheel with a BAC level almost twice the legal limit of driving used technology as an excuse after his vehicle crashed into the back of a parked firetruck on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. He was not sober while driving and he added something different in the long list of excuses most intoxicated drivers give when they get involved in an accident. According to him, he was not driving and he told CHP that his Tesla electric… Read More

33-Year-Old Resident Of San Carlos Pleads Guilty To Felony Drunk Driving Charges

SAN CARLOS – On Wednesday, 33-year-old Patrick Scott Shimanoff, who is a repeat DUI offender, pleaded no contest to felony drunk driving charges with 3 DUI convictions on the deal of serving no more than 3 years in prison. His driver’s license was suspended and he was already on probation for a series of 3 DUI convictions that took place in the year 2017. On 4th of October, he crashed his vehicle into a parked car in the 800 block… Read More

32-Year-Old Facing DUI Charges In Deadly Bay Area Toll Plaza Crash

OAKLAND – On Monday, 32-year-old Daniel Berk was charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and 6 counts of felony DUI causing injury as he killed a toll worker on 2nd of December. The location of the accident was Oakland side of the bay Bridge and 46-year-old Si Si Han died in the accident. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Andrey Gavrilchik, he and another cop went to the accident spot at around 5:11 a.m. Berk was present there who… Read More

35-Year-Old Santa Rosa Charged With Murder In A Fatal Sunday Night Collision

SANTA ROSA – According to the authorities, 35-year-old Logologoa Taumaloto Tevaseu has been charged with murder for causing an accident on Sonoma County’s Lakeville Highway. The accident occurred on Sunday around 9:10 p.m. and Tevaseu was taken into custody for the multi-vehicle accident. Tevaseu was behind the wheel of his 2006 Dodge Ram truck and was travelling in the southbound lanes when he crossed the double yellow and started to illegally pass cars. His car hit a white Toyota Corolla… Read More

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