Police Beat for Saturday June 6, 2009

Associated Press - June 5, 2009 6:33 PM ET AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Detroit Shock center Kara Braxton will be suspended for six games after pleading guilty to a drunk-driving charge during...

The Meridian Police Department reported the following arrests. • DUI — Billy F. Wooten Jr. — 45, 8784 Warren Lane Rd., Meridian. • DUI — Larry D. Eubanks, 58, Oxford.

When a Novato man with at least a dozen DUI and speeding convictions was charged with killing a girl on his motorcycle last week, residents throughout Marin wondered the same thing: Why was he still allowed to drive?

DUI NORTH CANAAN — Ralph T. Benson, 40, 7 Hillside Village Road, Pine Plains, N.Y., was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol and failure to wear a safety belt in front seat, after a traffic stop on Route 7 in North Canaan on May 29 at 7:28 p.m. He was released on a $500 surety bond and was scheduled to appear in Bantam Superior Court on May 29.

A former Alachua County resident was in Antigua earlier this week, apparently unaware that a three-year-old DUI manslaughter case was about to come crashing back down on him. Court records show Mark Fountain, 35, violated the probation he received after being convicted of two counts of DUI in which a person was killed and driving with a license...

PLACER COUNTY — California Highway Patrol is planning a sobriety/drivers license checkpoint on Saturday, June 6, somewhere in Placer County.

BEHIND THE STORY SEBA agrees to defer pay raises for one year The San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association, the labor union representing sheriff's deputies, district attorney's investigators and coroner investitagators, has agreed to forgo salary increases between 3 percent and 3.25 percent for one year.

June 2, 2 p.m., Glenn Hwy. and Kuoppala St.: Dora E. Pollock, 32, Palmer, stopped for an equipment violation. Charge: DUI. Citations: no proof of insurance, expired license, defective exhaust. Bail: $500.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Detroit Shock center Kara Braxton will be suspended for six games after pleading guilty to a drunk-driving charge during the offseason.