LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A Las Vegas family is left without their father right before Christmas. Police say Kelvin Flowers was killed by a driver who was high on marijuana. The collision happened just after 4 a.m. Saturday near Washington and Eastern.Two cars crashed into a cinder block wall, coming just feet from a home. A small…
DOWNEY – An 18-year-old Downey woman was reportedly killed in a traffic collision Sunday night in Downey. The crash occurred at approximately 9 p.m. when a BMW SUV traveling eastbound on Firestone Boulevard rear-ended another vehicle stopped at a traffic light. The driver of the SUV, 21-year-old Lise Moreno Arredondo, of Whittier, was arrested for driving…
Missoula County District Court Judge Robert “Dusty” Deschamps started a Thursday sentencing by saying he would not follow the plea agreement in the case. He called the prosecution’s sentence request for a woman who killed her boyfriend in a crash while driving after smoking marijuana “beyond the realm of reasonableness.” Trai Ann Dewey pleaded guilty…
Before the recent fatal pot DUI accident in Fremont that left three people dead, another deadly crash involving a driver under the influence of marijuana killed a 16-year-old San Jose girl. This case happened in March and involved the death of Isabelle Gonzalez. Alcohol was also involved in this case. Family members of Gonzalez are demanding that more…
CHARLESTOWN, IN (WAVE) – An Indiana woman has been charged with a felony months after a crash that killed her 13-year-old cousin. Jordan Abbott, 20, was charged with one count of causing death in a motor vehicle accident with a schedule one controlled substance in her blood. Police said toxicology reports indicated THC, an active…
A man facing charges for killing two teenage boys walking on a sidewalk near Ferndale on Wednesday, June 10, told investigators he was sleepy but not under the influence of drugs during the crash, according to attorneys working the case. William J. Klein, 34, was driving a black SUV on West Smith Road with his…
A veteran airboat captain had a high level of marijuana in his blood when his boat flipped in the Everglades, hurling tourists into the swamp and drowning a recent University of Miami graduate pinned under the craft. But nearly a year after the crash, prosecutors this week ruled out charging Steve George Gagne with any…
A 27-year-old driver who was seen puffing away on a marijuana pipe — then blocks later fatally struck a pedestrian in a Gresham crosswalk last October — was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison. Jacob McLeod Walters’ case has captured public attention particularly because he is one of the first defendants in Oregon…
[W]ILLISTON — The court-ordered toxicology report of a wrong-way driver charged with killing five central Vermont teenagers in a fiery crash a year ago shows high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, a powerful opiate and prescription drugs in his blood system. Steven D. Bourgoin, 37, of Williston had elevated levels of fentanyl…
ARKER, Colo. — The man who struck and killed a Parker cyclist in a hit-and-run last summer has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, officials announced Wednesday. Preston James Dorris, 37, pleaded guilty in February to leaving the scene of accident involving death, vehicular homicide, and careless driving in the death of Edward “Chuck” Vogel, Jr….
LOS ANGELES – As of Tuesday, LA County DA Jackie Lacey’s office tells FOX 11 that after viewing our story from Monday night, they have decided to assign a special unit that handles difficult DUI with cannabis cases to re-examine the evidence in this case and reconsider it for possible prosecution. The family of a local Uber driver…
A Queens teenager who crashed his car on a Long Island highway last month, killing four of his friends, now faces 25 years in prison after testing positive for marijuana, authorities said Friday. Joseph Beer, 17, a Richmond Hill High School graduate, lost control of his 2012 Subaru Impreza on a dangerous stretch of the…