Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Florida Man Crashes Into Airport Terminal
Florida man strikes again, this time at the baggage claim at the Sarasota-Bradenton airport where he crashed through a wall sending debris everywhere until his GMC pickup came to a stop at the main baggage terminal. The crash caused serious damage to the main terminal building, but no one besides the driver was hurt… Read More »
Drunk Driver Smashes Into OCSO Patrol Cars
Thirty-four-year-old Steevens Cherelus was arrested after sheriff’s deputies say he drove his vehicle into two Orange County Sheriff’s Office patrol cars. The crash occurred in the wee hours of the morning at around 3:30 a.m. Police were directing traffic after another accident happened on the same stretch of interstate. Cherelus was driving a white… Read More »
Sanford Police Officer Suspended After DUI
Authorities say that Sanford police officer Adam Feldman crashed his vehicle twenty minutes after the New Year Day balls finished dropping. Witnesses said the driver of a Jeep was swerving and failing to maintain a lane. At one point, the vehicle swerved across all three northbound lanes on I-4 before exiting the road and… Read More »
Juvenile Detention Officer Charged in Bizarre DUI
Authorities claim that a juvenile detention officer, Krystal Raquel Payne, was swigging shots of Crown Royal right from the bottle while she was driving her SUV. They say she hit seven parked cars and then tried to walk away from the scene wearing only her bra and panties. She appears to have removed a… Read More »
Florida Man Says Cocaine Baggie Flew in Through Window
Police say they pulled over a motorist who they saw drinking a 40 oz bottle of beer in his vehicle. The man had allegedly rolled through a stop sign while attempting to hide his very large beer. The police conducted a search of the vehicle and found an empty baggie with residue that tests… Read More »
Former Punter from FSU Faces DUI Charges After Scooter Crash
We’ve run a series of articles on all the bizarre instances in which Florida police can arrest you for DUI. This included bicyclists, a man on a segway, and now a former FSU punter who crashed his scooter. Logan Tyler was arrested with a blood-alcohol level of .218 and will now face DUI charges… Read More »
Grandmother Facing DUI Manslaughter Charges
A grandmother is being charged in the death of her own granddaughter after she crashed into an I-4 guardrail with her 10-month-old granddaughter on her lap. Both the grandmother and the granddaughter were injured in the crash, but the granddaughter died three days after the accident. Highway patrol reports that Helen Mention’s blood-alcohol level… Read More »
OP-Ed Takes Aim at Faulty Intoxilyzer Technology
A recent op-ed in the Daytona-Beach News Journal took aim at Florida’s Intoxilyzer technology. This technology is often presented as evidence in court against those who are charged with drunk driving. But is the Intoxilyzer based on scientific methodology or is it a load of hooey. The answer is complicated. The technology is based… Read More »
Woman Killed and Baby Injured in DUI Crash
A seventy-year-old woman was killed and her baby grandson was critically injured in a four-vehicle crash in Sarasota on September 9th. Florida Highway Patrol said that David Buncik ran a red light at the intersection at University Parkway in Sarasota. His vehicle struck three others including the car that held the woman and her… Read More »
Man Faces DUI Manslaughter Charges After Death of Cyclist
File this one under: Intoxicated motorist flees the scene of a fatal accident. We can’t stress enough how bad of a decision this is. Police have arrested Travis Osorio, a thirty-year-old Opa-Locka man who struck and killed a bicyclist earlier this year in April. Osorio was driving on a suspended license with a BAC… Read More »
