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Vero Beach woman charged with DUI and child neglect

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

Blanca Juarez

Blanca Juarez


INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A canal crash led to drunken driving and child neglect charges for a motorist Saturday, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol charged Blanca Idalia Juarez, 25, of the 500 block of 13th Place, Vero Beach, with driving while under the influence, two counts of child neglect and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. She posted $12,500 bail Sunday.
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Stuart hit-and-run driver had five times legal alcohol limit in blood, police say

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

STUART — A Stuart motorist who sideswiped a vehicle in traffic was arrested with a blood alcohol level of 0.402, five times higher than the legal limit, on Monday at 5:50 p.m., police said.

Terrance Jay Larsen, 50, of 4645 S.E. Circle Way, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, DUI with property damage and fleeing a law enforcement officer, according to Stuart Police Sgt. Martin J. Jacobson.
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Sleepy Port St. Lucie motorcyclist charged with DUI

Monday, October 26th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 54-year-old Port St. Lucie man faces DUI charges after allegedly laying down his motorcycle several times on the Crosstown Parkway Friday night, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.

Roger Dale Syner, of the 200 block of Southwest Inwood Avenue, was arrested after 8 p.m. and charged with a traffic felony for DUI and a misdemeanor for refusing a breathalyzer test. It was the fourth DUI in Syner’s lifetime and third in 10 years, according to the affidavit.

A witness driving behind Syner watched him drop his motorcycle at least three times while he was speeding eastbound, according to the affidavit. He told officers he had just enough to drink.
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Palm City man, pitcher for Baltimore Orioles farm teams, charged with DUI

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

A minor league pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles farm system was charged with driving while under the influence Sunday night, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
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Indian River County Administrator Baird not guilty of DUI

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

A six-member jury took only two hours to find Indian River County Administrator Joe Baird not guilty of DUI late Wednesday afternoon.

Baird, noticeably jubilant, sat with his attorney Bobby Guttridge as the court clerk read the verdict at 3:57 p.m. Baird then hugged his girlfriend and deferred comments to his attorney, before leaving the courthouse. (more…)

Indian River County administrator DUI case: Baird ‘appeared perfectly normal to me’ friend says

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

VERO BEACH — The DUI trial of County Administrator Joe Baird continues today with more defense witnesses testifying about his physical condition before his arrest at 10:25 p.m. May 16 in Vero Beach.

Baird “appeared perfectly normal to me” around 10 p.m., Baird’s long-time friend John Binkley testified Tuesday at the end of trial testimony for the day.

Testimony is expected to end today, possibly in time for the case to go to jurors for a decision.
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The lei gave him away? Baird attorney argues ‘rush to judgement’ in Indian River administrator’s DUI case

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

VERO BEACH — County Administrator Joe Baird was a victim of police “rush to judgment,” his defense attorney said in the opening arguments of his DUI case Tuesday.

Bobby Guttridge told jurors when Baird stepped out of his Jeep when it was stopped May 16, Baird was wearing a flowered Hawaiian lei around his neck. Because of that, police “never gave Baird the benefit of doubt.”

Baird was arrested after attending a community fundraiser in Wabasso at which Guttridge said Baird had two beers. But Assistant State Attorney David Dodd told jurors Baird failed all of the police roadside sobriety tests. Baird couldn’t stand on one leg, walk a straight line, count backwards or follow the movement of a pen with his eyes.

Guttridge blamed that on Baird having physical problems, including vertigo.

Dodd also said an officer found an alcoholic beverage spilled on the floorboard of Baird’s Jeep.

Prosecutors Tuesday morning are putting the arresting police officers on the stand to testify. Vero Beach Police Lt. Matt Harrelson is first. He stopped Baird at 10:26 p.m. May 16 near the Miracle Mile Plaza on 21st Street.

Harrelson testified he could smell alcohol when he was within 6 feet of Baird. Because of Baird’s appearance, he called in a DUI investigator.

By Elliott Jones

Judge: ‘In the tapes I saw some evidence of impairment’ as he orders DUI case to trial

Thursday, August 20th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

VERO BEACH — Jury selection begins Monday in the DUI trial of Indian River County Administrator Joe Baird and prosecutors will get to use key evidence the defense wanted excluded.

County Judge David Morgan refused defense attorney Bobby Guttridge’s request Wednesday to toss out the May 16 arrest, which the attorney said was based on an invalid stop. (more…)

St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy arrested on DUI charge after weaving in traffic

Monday, August 17th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — A St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested Sunday on a DUI charge after she reportedly was seen weaving in traffic and stumbling when she exited her sport utility vehicle, according to an affidavit released Monday.

Two breath tests measured 49-year-old Consuela Hall Curtis’s blood-alcohol level as 0.144 and 0.153 percent — greater than the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Curtis is a court security deputy who joined the Sheriff’s Office in 2003, according to the Sheriff’s Office. She was off duty in her personal vehicle at the time.

An off-duty sheriff’s sergeant saw Curtis driving west Sunday afternoon on Okeechobee Road from Interstate 95, noting her GMC SUV was weaving and cutting across all lanes of traffic.
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Speakers tell of the tragedies of drunken driving during Martin community program

Friday, August 14th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

STUART — The image of a man’s arm wrapped around her front tire still haunts Jessica Leslie eight years later.

It was November 2001 when a 20-year old Leslie of Boca Raton was coming back from an evening of partying that she decided to drive home drunk. She told her story to a crowd of about four dozen at a Thursday community program at the Martin County Administrative Center on the dangers of drinking and driving.

Leslie never made it home but ran over Patrick McDonough, 41, killing him. (more…)

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