Blog Posts in April, 2016

  • Repeat offenders: Felony DUI charges stack up in Northern Colorado

    It’s just shy of 1:30 a.m. on a dreary Saturday in Old Town when a familiar story plays out in front of Deputy Sam Roth. A Ford F-150 heading north on Mason Street turns onto Mountain Avenue, but things don’t look quite right to Roth, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in-house DUI expert. Roth flips on his squad car lights and watches the pickup’s driver haphazardly pull into a parking spot and ...
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  • Critical Mistakes By CBI Impact Drunk Driving Cases

    Poorly written instructions are being blamed for botched blood alcohol tests conducted by a scientist at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. In January, a CBS4 (Denver) investigation revealed mistakes in 56 blood alcohol tests during a four month period from August 2015 through November 2015. Here's what happened: A CBI refrigerator used to cool blood vials malfunctioned, leading to a need to ...
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  • CDOT & State Patrol increase DUI enforcement with spring program

    The Colorado Department of Transportation, the Colorado State Patrol and local law enforcement agencies have launched heightened enforcement to prevent impaired driving with the warm weather approaching any day now. The Heat Is On program runs through May 15 — one of a dozen periods throughout the year in which authorities set up sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and other measures to ...
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  • Nearly 400 drivers arrested statewide during St. Patrick's Day DUI crackdown

    St. Patrick's Day was a massive party for the public, and a massive round of arrests for Colorado police statewide. Nearly 400 drivers were arrested on DUI charges in Colorado over the week of St. Patrick’s Day. Law enforcement agencies across the state increased DUI patrols between March 11 and March 18. During last year’s St. Patrick’s Day enforcement period, which ran for seven days, 505 people ...
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