Put Your Trust In
Lakeville North High School’s athletic and activities director, 47-year-old Robert Lornez Ertl, pleaded guilty to gross-misdemeanor DWI in Dakota County District Court. This plea comes after Ertl was arrested with a blood alcohol concentration of .13. After entering his plea, the judge immediately sentenced him to a year in jail, but she stayed the sentence for two years and ordered…
The numbers are in after the Minnesota State Patrol cracked down on drinking and driving throughout the entire month of December. In the month of December, a total of 2,500 impaired drivers were arrested throughout the state. The number is slightly down from the 2,600 arrests that were made in 2011 due to the statewide crackdown on DWI’s in Minnesota.…
A man who was arrested four months ago for felony drunk driving has once again been charged with felony DUI. This time he has been arrested in Lakeville. 22-year-old Elliot Alexander Williams has been charged with first-degree DWI. If convicted, he faces up to 7 years in prison and $14,000 in fines. The minimum sentence is $4,200 in fines and…
So far in December, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety says that there have been 1300 people arrested for DWI. The increase in arrests comes after the Minnesota State Patrol started working overtime in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign in order to prevent drunk drivers from causing injuries to themselves and other drivers…
Austin Conley was hit by a Chevy Lumina twice with the first impact knocking him out of his shoes and into the air. The second impact occurred when he came back down and the car hit him again to then drag him down a street in Minneapolis. Conley, 20, was struck on October 27th at approximately 2:50 am. In the…
A man was arrested for DWI in Stearns County twice within a 24 hour period. In fact, he was arrested twice in 21 hours. Sheriff’s deputies say that the 20-year-old male was arrested at 3:30 a.m. in the Waite Park area after a routine traffic stop for speeding. It was found that he was intoxicated. He was released from custody…
DUIs are on the rise at the University of Minnesota after being on the decrease for a number of years. However, University police say it is not necessarily due to an increase in drunken driving. What they say it means is that they are starting to catch drunk drivers more often. From 2002 to 2006, the campus averaged 187 DUIs…
Minnesota is one of the states being used as a model for possible reform of North Dakota’s DUI law. Here’s a story for you: In 1980 on prom night in Fargo, Leah Eisenhardt, 15, and her friends weren’t able to go because they were too young. Instead, they went to Dairy Queen before heading home for a sleepover. On the…
The statewide “Drive Sober or Get pulled Over” DWI campaign that spanned from August 17th until September 3rd netted a total of 1,842 DWI arrests, according to preliminary reports gathered by the DPS Office of Traffic Safety from over 300 agencies. This is an increase from a similar campaign that was conducted in 2011 that resulted in nearly 1800 DWI…
Statistics released by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office are showing that drunken-driving deaths in Minnesota were down 40% between 2002 and 2011. While this is great news, there is still a lot of work to be done in order to save more lives. This figure is a part of the agency’s Traffic Office’s release of the drunken-driving data…