May 23 was an eventful day for Middle Township Police, who stopped and arrested one driver for drunk driving and a second for drug DUI within the township limits. In the first instance, officers were alerted to a possible intoxicated driver operating his vehicle erratically on SH47. Police found a…
With Memorial Day weekend upon us, we have one observation for New Jersey motorists: The Garden State is no paradise when it comes to drunk drivers, speeders and other hapless recipients of tickets and summonses from our traffic enforcement community. Intoxicated drivers in particular beware, according to the National Motorists…
Lyndhurst — A 52-year-old New Jersey man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol last week on Thursday evening when police found the allegedly intoxicated suspect in his car, which was parked and partially blocking the roadway on New York Avenue. In addition to drunk driving, he was…
East Rutherford — A 29-year-old local man was picked up for drunk driving in the late evening of Wednesday, May 6, following a minor accident on Patterson Avenue. The allegedly intoxicated driver was arrested for DWI, as well as for not maintaining a vehicle in safe condition, failure to produce a…
The most recent sobriety roadblock in Monmouth County was in force this past Friday night and Saturday morning on Route 36 in West Long Branch. The county’s DWI Task Force was working in concert with the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety to identify and pull over intoxicated drivers…
A New Jersey man accused of driving while intoxicated and causing a fatality in the process has recently been arraigned in district court on charges of DWI and vehicular manslaughter, just weeks after the accident that killed his former stepdaughter. The tragic drunk driving accident happened on April 23 in Bethlehem…
Whether it’s a charge of driving while intoxicated, drug DUI or any number of other offenses, once in the courtroom, DWI defendants have an obligation to themselves to play by the rules, even if they think technology is one step ahead of the legal process. I’m speaking most recently of the Fort Lee…
Drunk driving, driving under the influence, or DWI. In New Jersey, and anywhere else for that matter, these simple words represent a range of possible scenarios too numerous to list here. As a New Jersey DWI attorney, my office has represented hundreds of drunk driving cases — many of which…
New Jersey law regarding underage drinking and driving is quite specific. Because you must 21 years or older to buy, possess or drink any alcoholic beverage, underage drinking is by definition illegal. And the consequences for underage drinking are severe under New Jersey law, especially as it pertains to operating…
Hackettstown — In what initially could have been a DWI drug arrest on Saturday, April 25, a K-9 police unit from Washington Township found 34 bags of heroin in a vehicle occupied by a young woman and a 22-year-old man from Fairfield, NJ. The man was eventually charged with possession…