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| What Happens If One is Arrested for Drunk Driving in Washington, DC and What Are The Penalties? Posted: 28 Apr 2012 11:06 AM PDT
Call 202.596.5716 for a free no-obligation consultation. The first thing you want to do if you are arrested for a DUI in Washington, DC is look to see if you were given a Notice of Proposed Suspension. This notice that the police officer probably handed you when you were arrested tells you that you have 5 days if you are a DC resident, or 10 days if you have an out of state driver’s license, to go in person to the DMV hearing office in southeast DC and request a hearing. What that will do is it will give you and your attorney a chance to listen to the police evidence and challenge and fight that suspension of your driver’s license. Most importantly it will stop the suspension from immediately occurring and give you until that hearing so you will be able to keep your driving privileges. Now, at your court date your attorney can explain to you what is going to happen. Sometimes you may be able to have the case dismissed, on really the first day – you plead guilty, you agree to some conditions, you go to some driving classes or some alcohol testing, it’s called a Deferred Sentencing Agreement, or a DSA. And then if you do everything that you are supposed to do, the charges get dismissed and that helps a long way with your record But that is not always available, so you are going to have to ask your attorney if that applies to your specific set of facts. But what is important to remember, is that you don’t always just want to plead guilty on the first day, or any day. You …
 Tulsa police arrest a woman for mixing chemicals to make meth inside a south Tulsa Walmart on Thursday. Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon, 45, also known to go by Alisha Halfmoon, was arrested for endeavoring to manufacture meth at the 81st and Lewis store. Police say surveillance video shows Halfmoon had been in the store since noon. Six hours later security noticed she was acting suspicious, so they called Tulsa police. Responding officers say she claimed she was “too broke to buy the chemicals.” “She didn’t have the money to make the purchases of the chemicals that were needed so she was taking what was needed in the bottle,” says Officer David Shelby. Shoppers inside the store had no idea someone was cooking meth. “This is a family store,” says Jessica Fuentes, who also had her 1-year-old son inside the store. “People need to start thinking. If she has family she needs to think about her family. If you are broke. It’s just wrong.” “When I saw her she had just finished mixing sulfuric acid with starter fluid in a bottle,” says Officer Shelby. They immediately got her, and the ingredients, out of the store before any of the shoppers got hurt. No one was evacuated. “Something could have happened, something could have blown up in there,” says shopper Jonathan Tary. “When firefighters were on the scene she made statements to them that is what she was doing, she was attempting to obtain these chemicals and was in the process of trying to manufacture meth. However, she said … |
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