New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

Felipe Hueso, San Diego City Council candidate spent the night in jail for allegedly driving drunk Monday night. Tests confirmed Hueso had a blood-alcohol level of .15, which is nearly double the legal limit of .08, New York Criminal Atorneys reported.

Before Hueso was pulled over, the arresting officer noticed he was driving his Jeep Wrangler with the outside off-road spotlights on. Legally the off-road lamps should be turned off when a vehicle drives down public and residential streets, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

Minutes later the officer stopped the Wrangler and identified the driver as Felipe Hueso. Upon further investigation the officer suspected Hueso had been drinking and conducted a field sobriety test and followed it up downtown at the police headquarters with a Breathalyzer. The final test revealed the .15 percent blood-alcohol level, said New York Criminal Lawyers.

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A 32-year-old man was arrested this weekend for committing nearly the same crime in 1999 that left him imprisoned and without a driver’s license for several years. The suspect killed a 10-year-old girl in a crash more than a decade ago after driving drunk and was arrested this past weekend for driving while intoxicated again, New York Criminal Lawyers report.

“He hasn’t learned anything in all these years,” said a grieving 49-year old man, whose daughter was killed in the 1999 accident. According to police reports the man crashed into the family’s car in 1999 and only the 10-year-old girl was killed.

The suspect allegedly crashed onto the lawn of a local resident this past weekend and was found slumped over the steering wheel with the car still running and a half of a bottle of vodka sitting near him. He sustained only minor injuries at the scene according to police and required no hospitalization.

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He was the former head of the Grand Old Party, the GOP, the Republicans of the great state of Indiana, says a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer. Nothing happened in the state that he didn’t know about, at least not politically, and for nearly four years, between 2002 and 2006 he was the King Maker in the state of Indiana. Noted a NY Criminal Lawyer, who asked not to be named, “when he wasn’t pulling the strings of the political machine, he ran the family business.” But, not just any family business, but a family business of retail furniture stores. Twelve retail furniture stores in all, located all over Indiana and Indiana’s next door neighbor, Ohio, reports a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer

And now all of that is nothing more than a backstory as he has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. It was nearly eleven o clock in at night when he was pulled over, notes a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer, and the police followed standard protocol: they gave him the breathalyzer and told him to take the field sobriety test. He failed both. He was arrested for DWI and will stand before a judge soon to answer for his alleged crime against the people of Indiana, says a NYC Criminal Lawyer. Jail time is a possibility.

Earlier this month, the man had stepped down from his post as head of the regional furniture giant. Perhaps he spent the rest of the month drinking.

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Jim Leyritz still blames his victim for his own drinking and driving incident and hasn’t learned a thing, said New York Criminal Lawyers.

“My life was dragged though the mud because I was a Yankee. I got tried because I’m an athlete! There was a good chance I was innocent!” Said ex-New York Yankee Jim Leyritz, 46, who drove drunk, killed a woman and never went to jail.

Leyritz, who was extremely angry at the police who arrested him threatened, “I’m gonna make them lose their jobs.” He went on to slander his victim — a waitress and mother who was killed on her way home in Florida at 3 a.m.

A 51-year old man, who was a crash scene photographer, was charged with a DUI this week, after he was seen driving right past the scene of a fatal crash by local police, New York Criminal Lawyers reported.

The suspect has been convicted three times in the past fifteen years for driving while intoxicated according to court documents.

Police suspected the photographer was drunk when he drove past the crash scene, went down the street, then returned and parked half on the street and half on the curb.

A 62-year-old woman, suspected of driving drunk, crashed her Mercedes-Benz multiple times injuring two people and damaging four vehicles in under ten minutes Tuesday, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

The suspect’s car finally hit a tree, where an innocent bystander took the keys out of the car and held the driver until officers arrived New York Criminal Lawyers said.

“She tried to get away going eastbound on Santa Cruz,” said a Police spokesperson.

A 46-year-old man disappeared with his 11-year-old son on October 10 has just been added to the Crime Stoppers 10 Most Wanted List. New York Criminal Lawyers reported he allegedly abducted the boy two days before what was supposed to be a regular visitation.

According to local authorities, the man might have fled with the boy in a panic because he hadn’t been holding up his agreement in the divorce and he learned there was a warrant out for his arrest.

New York Criminal Lawyers said the boy was seen getting into his Dad’s green 1997 Chevy Tahoe and never showed up for the school the next day.

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Bankrupt former auto tycoon Denny Hecker, who is $767 million in debt, recently admitted to impersonating a former business friend while he placed a bid on his own 2006 Harley Davidson at his bankruptcy auction in May of this year, according to New York Criminal Lawyers. “It’s good to know that when push comes to shove, bankrupt auto failure Denny Hecker has a firm grasp on what’s really important in life. Like his Harley Davidson.” said writer Hart Van Denburg, in a recent news blog.

Other items available at the auction included several of his speedboats, snowmobiles and his Cadillac Escalade golf cart. According to New York Criminal Lawyers, Hecker’s checks for the auction items he tried to buy back just bounced.

The Radde of Radde & Sons Auction House in New Germany estimates Hecker’s assets have raised a little less a million dollars in its five auctions. New York Criminal Lawyers, however project that auctions and sales of Hecker’s assets have brought in about $2.5 million.

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Kombucha is a powerfully stimulating fermented tea that has been taken as a healing elixir for thousands of years. Its medicinal benefits are well known and well documented, though it has recently come under scrutiny with the FDA and other agencies, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. Kombucha has antibiotic and antioxidant properties, and has even been shown to have anticancer effects. So why is something that is supposedly this good for you being held under the watchful eye of government officials?

The New York Criminal Lawyer reports that Kombucha has been shown to have a high enough alcohol content, in some instances, to rival that of beer. The fermented tea is sold commercially, but a growing number of people are choosing to brew this bubbly beverage at home. It has been found that some of the commercial varieties of Kombucha can continue producing alcohol after being bottled, says the New York Criminal Lawyer, meaning that by the time it reaches the mouths of the consumer, which could be anyone, it not only has healing effects, but also stimulation of a more intoxicating kind, however slight it may be.

There are those who claim that Kombucha has an almost addictive affect on people who drink it regularly. Some people have even used Kombucha to wean themselves off of alcohol. Still, is this such a bad thing? Is the percentage of alcohol in this ancient brew too much for the underage consumer to have access to? Further investigation will be reveal the answers. But for now, health conscious consumers who drink commercially bottled Kombucha might be seeing less and less of it on store shelves as store owners choose to bow out of the drama.

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Harold C. “Hal” Turner, a former FBI informant and current Internet shock jock, has received a 33 month prison sentence because of comments that were made on his ultra right wing Internet blog in early 2009, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Mr. Turner defended his position as a major media figure by stating that his angry blog rant, in which he wrote that three circuit court judges “deserve to be killed” for their ruling in favor of upholding handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Il, was purely protected under the right to free speech and was never intended to cause harm or invoke a sense of danger to those judges, a New York Criminal Lawyer reported.

Turner maintained that, though his comments in regards to his position may have been extreme and even “disgusting” to some individuals, his large and highly opinionated fan base has come to expect and respect his extremist political stance and that he was being erroneously attacked and labeled, according to the New York Criminal Lawyer. Turner also professed his love for the United States of America and used his past history as an FBI informant to strengthen his loyalty to the US, and was said to imply that his opinions and his actions have actually made the country a safer place.

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