A 24 year-old woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after she struck a bicyclist while she was intoxicated last summer. The woman pleaded guilty to felony hit and run causing death and felony gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

The accident occurred last July in Carlsbad. Witnesses say they saw the woman’s pickup truck hit a curb, crash into some bushes, and then drive away. Police later found the body of a 64 year-old man who was hit while he was riding his bike.

Authorities later found the truck at a nearby apartment complex. Officers say the vehicle was empty but they found the woman hiding in the bushes.

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Thirteen people were arrested for drunk driving near Pleasure Point over the weekend.

According to the California Highway Patrol, there was 13 drunk driving arrests and one felony bust that occurred after someone called to report  erratic driving.

Once stopped by police officials, it was determined that the man was driving intoxicated and that he had four previous DUI convictions. After being arrested and charged with suspicion of felony drunk driving and violating his probation, he was taken to jail where he remained overnight.

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Felony DUI charges have been filed against a woman after an alleged DUI accident occurred and left one Los Banos firefighter dead.

According to California Highway Patrol, a 24-year-old woman has been charged with a felony DUI causing bodily injury and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

Police arrested the woman after the accident when she struck a motorcyclist and he died three days later in the hospital. If convicted of both of these charges, the woman faces up to 10 years in prison. The man was off duty at the time of the accident and was unable to avoid that woman while driving on Highway 165.

A man was arrested for a felony DUI while driving a motor home on U.S. Highway 101. The arrest occurred because the man was involved in an accident that injured two people.

The incident occurred as a 24-year-old was driving a motor home and he struck a guardrail and a tree on the side of the roadway. According to California Highway Patrol, it was the man’s level of intoxication that caused him to lose control of the motor home.

The driver was not injured, but two people that were in the back of the home were injured. They were both transported to the hospital as a result. The CHP is currently investigating the incident.

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The California Highway Patrol has created a task force that is seeking more than 330,000 people who are wanted for impaired driving misdemeanor to felony warrants.

This effort is beginning now and will continue on until Sept. 30. A person who has a DUI warrant out can either turn themselves in to the highway patrol or they will be arrested wherever they are.

Highway patrol is hoping that this tougher DUI enforcement will help to create a safer environment by preventing people from drinking and driving.

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Olympian, Alvin Harrison, has been charged with a felony driving under the influence charge and a judge has recently determined that there is enough evidence to continue with the trial.

Harrison and his twin brother were high school track stars who continued on to the Olympics and both won gold medals in 1996 and 2006. They were later stripped of a gold medal when it was found that they started using performance-enhancing drugs.

The drunk driving charge stems from an accident that occurred on Interstate 73 when Harrison plowed into another vehicle. He pleaded not guilty to two felony counts and one misdemeanor count.

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