NEWS:  November 19, 2009
CHP DUI enforcement in Oakland and San Francisco has recently increased on the Bay Bridge.  The newly installed “S-Curve,” or as I heard a radio host this morning refer to it as “Mess-Curve,” has resulted in an increase of CHP enforcement.  The new section of the San Francisco to Oakland connection is [...]

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NEWS: October 1, 2009
The San Francisco Bay Area DUI law office of Aaron Bortel is NOW available to handle all DUI and DWI in San Mateo, Sonoma, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties.
If you’ve been arrested in any of these bay area counties, top lawyer help is available, with a free case evaluation.
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According to CHP, the number of arrests for DUI in the Bay Area from 6PM Wednesday, December 31 2008 to 6AM Thursday January 1, 2009 is double the number from the same period last year.  This year there were 84 Drunk Driving arrests in the San Francisco Bay Area, compared to 41 Drunk Driving arrests [...]

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Examiner – A San Francisco man died early Saturday morning after a suspected drunken driver made an unsafe lane change and rear-ended the man’s motorcycle on the Bay Bridge, the California Highway Patrol said.
Ryan Willis Jones, 30, was headed eastbound in the tunnel just west of Treasure Island around 5 a.m. when he was knocked [...]

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Kelly Medora, a petite preschool teacher who weighed about 118 pounds, went out with a friend in North Beach one Saturday night in 2005 for some fun.
Instead, San Francisco police officer Christopher Damonte, who weighed about 250 pounds, arrested her for jaywalking, twisted her arm behind her back and broke it with an audible crack.
Although [...]

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OAKLAND – In a wreck that shocked even police, a gusher from a fire hydrant hit by a suspected drunk driver’s car Monday almost drowned a passenger in the vehicle.
The passenger, Walker Tiller, 59, of Oakland, who was knocked unconscious by the impact, was rescued from the flooding 1993 Pontiac Bonneville by a rookie police [...]

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AP – The mayor of Colma has resigned over ethics issues after serving just three months.
Mayor Larry Formalejo told a packed public meeting last night that as a city councilman he committed an ethical breach involving the drunken-driving arrest of his son, but didn’t say what he had done.
Formalejo said that he “acted as a [...]

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