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Former USC linebacker Rey Maualuga, coming off his rookie season with the Cincinnati Bengals, has been arrested on drunk driving charges in northern Kentucky.

Maualuga was arrested at 3:11 a.m. EST today and charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and with careless driving, according to Kenton County Jail records.

According to the Associated Press, Maualuga, 23, was being held without bond and no attorney was listed for him.

A second-round pick last April, Maualuga started the first 15 games for the Bengals before suffering a broken ankle that ended his season.

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A Downey man has been sentenced to 11 years in state prison for a drunken crash in which a college student burned to death.

An Orange County judge sentenced 22-year-old Kenneth McNair on Friday. His attorney says that with time off for good behavior and credit for time served, McNair could be out in 4 1/2 years.

Prosecutors say McNair had been drinking for hours before his car rear-ended a Mustang at a red light in Huntington Beach in November 2008.

Jose Pacheco, a 22-year-old college student, died when the Mustang burst into flames.

McNair was convicted last month of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He apologized to Pacheco’s family at his sentencing but said he wasn’t seeking forgiveness because he’ll never forgive himself.

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A man faces fraud charges after reportedly pretending to be his twin brother after he was pulled over for driving under the influence. The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office reported that 43-year-old man was pulled over Jan. 20 and charged with DUI. But deputies said the man initially identified himself as his brother and signed that name on his citation and jail forms.

Deputies discovered the suspect’s real identity the next day. He reportedly told deputies that he used his brother’s name because his driver’s license was suspended.

Besides the DUI, the man was charged with fraudulent impersonation, altering a public record certificate, passing a forged-altered instrument and several misdemeanors. He was being held on $31,250 bail.

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Visalia police officers will be stopping cars at two DUI checkpoints in Visalia this weekend, according to a department news release.

Police will be checking all vehicles at the undisclosed locations and arresting drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The operation is financed by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

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Sheonty Sultan-Baksh is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail.

The West Palm Beach woman was involved in a fatal accident on the night of December 28th according to her arrest report.

West Palm Beach police say that Sheonty and her husband Salim Baksh went to movies at CityPlace.

After the movie the couple spilt up and went to different establishments to have drinks.

The couple, according to the arrest report, crashed into a parked car in the CityPlace parking lot as they were leaving.

They then headed west on Okeechobee Blvd for a half a mile when the car crashed into a light and cement wall.

Police say that Salim, who was in the back seat, was ejected from the car and died at the scene.

The car they were in was totaled.

She was later transported to St Mary’s Medical Center by West Palm Beach paramedics.

Police say that Sheonty’s blood alcohol was .233.

She has been charged with DUI manslaughter for the death of her husband.

Also Sheonty Sultan- Baksh faces charges of leaving the scene of an accident because of the accident at the City Place parking lot. More Florida DUI News.

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The Ontario government will introduce tough legislation Tuesday, intended to crack down on dangerous driving.

It calls for a zero-tolerance policy on alcohol for new drivers.

Global News has learned the provincial government will enact a law whereby any driver under the age of 21 found with alcohol in their system will face a licence suspension.

There also will be penalties for speeding that will apply to any new driver with a G-1 licence, regardless of age. A first-time offender will face a 30-day licence suspension and a repeat-offender will lose the privilege to drive for 90 days. A third-time offender will have to re-qualify for the right to drive in Ontario.

The plan is in response to a terrible accident last summer in the cottage-country area of Muskoka, in which three young people were killed, following an afternoon of drinking in Port Carling, Ont. Tyler Mulcahy, 20, was behind the wheel of a vehicle that went off the road and into a river on July 3. He, along with two friends were killed.

Mulcahy’s father, Tim, was a huge proponent to amended driving legislation.

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Nearly $40,000 in state grant money has been awarded to the Tucson Police Department to help enforce traffic laws and prevent drunk driving, including a sobriety checkpoint scheduled for Friday.

The $39,690 grant from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will help TPD with selective traffic enforcement efforts through September, according to a news release.

The release said TPD reinstituted DUI checkpoints in 2007 and in the first period of enforcement saw an 18 percent decrease in impairment-related crashes.

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A West Virginia lawmaker in Charleston for the ongoing legislative session faces a drunken driving charge from city police.

Delegate Alex Shook, a Monongalia County Democrat, was arrested and charged with the misdemeanor late Wednesday.

Kanawha County Magistrate Court officials confirmed the charge Thursday, and said he was released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.

A Charleston Police spokesman did not immediately return a message requesting comment.

Shook is a 40-year-old Morgantown lawyer first elected to the House in 2006. He did not attend Thursday’s floor session, and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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“Heroes” star Adrian Pasdar may be wishing he had his on-screen character’s supernatural power of flight.

Pasdar, who plays lawyer-turned-senator Nathan Petrelli on the NBC drama, was arrested for DUI early Wednesday morning after police spotted him driving irresponsibly, TMZ.com reports.

Cops clocked the actor going more than 90 mph at 2:59 a.m. on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles, where Pasdar was said to be “failing to maintain his lane.”

According to the report, the police gave Pasdar a field sobriety test after they detected the smell of alcohol coming from his vehicle as they approached.

Pasdar, who is married to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines, was placed under arrest for suspicion of DUI and was taken to a nearby jail.

Because the 44-year-old actor reportedly refused to take a breathalyzer, his bail was set at the high rate of $15,000.

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They say a drunk driver hit a police officer’s car, with him inside.

Jacob Rheault (Roll) of West Fargo was arrested for drunken driving. The 26-year-old Rheault also was cited for driving with an expired license and driving too fast for the conditions.

It happened along 40th Avenue and 50th Street south around 1:30 today. The officer was blocking off a portion of the road when the intoxicated driver ran into his car.

The force of the hit made the officer smash his head on the steering wheel and the cage divider behind his seat. The officer did call for an ambulance, but told the emergency workers that he was okay.

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