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Drive Hammered...Get Nailed

Ex-Phoenix Firefighter Mark Nehrenz Gets Jail Time for Drunk-Driving Into a Teenager

By Matthew Hendley Tue., May 14 2013 at 2:18 PM

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Former Phoenix firefighter Mark Nehrenz

A former Phoenix firefighter who was driving drunk when he hit a teenager and drove away in 2011 will spend a little time in jail.

Mark Nehrenz was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years on probation for the incident, which left the teenager with a broken hip.

See also:
-Phoenix Firefighter Mark Nehrenz Hit a Kid With His Truck and Didn't Bother to Stop

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arizona, dui, hit and run, mark nehrenz, phoenix, phoenix fire department

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Feds Want Blood-Alcohol Level for DUIs to Drop From .08 to .05

By Matthew Hendley Tue., May 14 2013 at 1:53 PM

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The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that a blood-alcohol level of .08 is no longer the acceptable maximum for American drivers, and instead wants .05 to be the new threshold for DUIs.

That obviously would have a big effect in Arizona, where the penalties for DUI are just about the toughest in the country.

See also:
-Arizona's Drunk Drivers Average "Extreme" DUI Levels...Again
-Jan Brewer's Wild Ride: We Got the Police Report

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.08, arizona, blood alcohol content, dui, dui laws, governor's office of highway safety, national transportation safety board

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Aimee Butel, Valley Attorney, Accused of Running Over Woman While Driving Drunk

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Mar. 25 2013 at 11:51 AM

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Aimee Butel

A Valley attorney and former Maricopa County medical examiner is accused of running over and killing a woman lying in a roadway while driving drunk, then driving away.

Aimee Lorine Butel, listed in court documents obtained by New Times as an attorney for the Phoenix law firm Knapp & Roberts, is accused of running over the woman shortly after midnight on Saturday.

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Mark Grace Sentenced to Four Months in Jail in DUI Case

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Jan. 31 2013 at 11:26 AM

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An extremely old photograph of Mark Grace.

Former Arizona Diamondbacks first-baseman and color-commentator Mark Grace was sentenced this morning to four months in jail.

According to a Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman, Grace was granted work release, and will also serve two years on probation.

See also:
-Mark Grace and Daron Sutton Being Replaced by Bob Brenly and ESPN's Steve Berthiaume
-Best DUI in Local Sports - 2011: Mark Grace

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arizona, arizona diamondbacks, dui, mark grace, scottsdale, scottsdale police department

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Arizona's Drunk Drivers Average "Extreme" DUI Blood-Alcohol Levels During Holidays... Again

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Jan. 2 2013 at 7:57 AM

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Despite cops around the state probably hearing the phrase "just two beers" quite often during DUI stops this holiday season, the state government's statistics show that Arizonans tend to be fairly slammed when they were caught driving drunk.

For the second year in a row, drivers busted for DUI during specific DUI-enforcement operations since Thanksgiving had an average blood-alcohol level of .15, a level which is nearly twice the "legal limit" of .08, and would quafily people for the "extreme" DUI category.

See also:
-Jan Brewer's Wild Ride: We Got the Police Report. Get All the Tipsy Details Right Here
-Jan "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed" Brewer: DUI Report Result of "Silly Season"
-Sheriff Larry Dever's Blood-Alcohol Level Was More Than Three Times the "Legal Limit" at Time of Fatal Crash

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arizona, Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety, drinking and driving, dui, extreme dui, jan brewer, two beers

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Isacc Quesada's DUI Ruin: One Dead, Baby and Women Injured, Witnesses Punched and Kicked

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Dec. 10 2012 at 11:47 AM

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Isacc Quesada

Isacc Quesada was involved in a simple fender-bender in Phoenix on Saturday night.

What ended up happening, though, left one man dead, injured two women and a baby, and additional people were punched and kicked -- which has Quesada, 20, in jail on nine felony charges.

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State Representative David Burnell Smith Hit With DUI, Pulls a "Do You Know Who I Am?"

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Nov. 5 2012 at 10:43 AM

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David Burnell Smith

Driving under the influence: not very funny. Republican state Representative David Burnell Smith's arrest for alleged DUI: hilarious.

Smith pulled the alleged DUI trifecta in his encounter with Scottsdale police: as an attorney who claims he "fights for those who have been arrested and/or charged with a DUI," he reportedly tried to blame mouthwash for his alleged blood-alcohol level, and he went with the infamous, "Do you know who I am?" line on the arresting officer.

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Edward Sauceda Has an Arizona Cardinals Face Tattoo, Alleged Pre-Season DUI

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Sep. 4 2012 at 10:51 AM

Categories: Drive Hammered...Get Nailed, Mugshot of the Week, Sports?

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Edward Sauceda

Edward Sauceda is probably the only person on earth with the Arizona Cardinals logo tattooed on his face, as we could only find one other photo of a Cardinals face tattoo on Google images -- Sauceda's mugshot from 2009.

Sauceda was actually arrested the week before the Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, but is now accused of aggravated DUI during the preseason.

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Julius Grosso, 93, Accused of DUI in Scottsdale; Cops had to Pull Stubborn Codger Out of His Buick

By Ray Stern Tue., Jun. 19 2012 at 4:42 PM

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Image: Scottsdale Police

Julius Elmer Grosso, 93, had to be pulled from his car and handcuffed after police determined he was too drunk to drive. The suspect was driving on a suspended license from a previous DUI.

At age 93, Julius Elmer Grosso of Scottsdale is one of those senior citizens who doesn't want to give up his car keys -- even after a two-hour drinking binge.

Cops say the stubborn nonagenerian gave them a hard time during a DUI investigation over the weekend, resulting in Grosso having to be pulled from his Buick, cuffed and arrested.

Grosso showed up at Zipp's bar, 7551 East Camelback Road, at about 5 p.m. on Saturday and proceeded to get hammered on scotch, according to a police report. His bar receipt, examined later by cops, showed he had six shots before leaving the place two hours later.

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Pedro Ramirez ID'd by Police as Drunk Driver in Head-on Crash That Killed a 5-Year-Old

By Matthew Hendley Wed., May 9 2012 at 7:45 AM

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Pedro Ramirez

Phoenix police have identified 19-year-old Pedro Ramirez as the allegedly drunk driver who got in a head-on collision on the morning of April 30, killing a 5-year-old boy.

The boy's mom was arrested, too, and faces child-abuse charges for putting her youngster in the car driven by Ramirez, and not placing the boy in any of the three child-safety seats in her car, according to police.

Police said not one of the three occupants in the car driven by Ramirez was wearing a seat belt, as Ramirez, allegedly drunk, crossed the center line around 8 a.m. that morning and crashed head-on into a Chevy truck.

Five-year-old Angel Alvarez died from the crash, and his mother, 21-year-old Evangelina Barrios, sustained serious injuries.

Ramirez was in critical condition after the crash, and police delayed releasing his name due to his "incapacitating injury," and charges against him were pending.

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