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A motorized lounge chair seized in a Minnesota DWI case has been auctioned off for a third time.

A Duluth area resident placed the winning $3,700 bid Tuesday night.

Bart Kyte, sales manager for the business that organized the sale, would not disclose the top bidder’s name. Kyte says 15 people took part in the auction at Do-Bid.com.

Proceeds go to the Proctor Police Department, which seized the novelty chair in August 2008 after its former owner drove it into a parked car. He pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

The chair had been put up for online auction twice before, but those sales fell through.

The recliner is powered by a lawnmower engine. It comes equipped with a stereo, cup holders and a magazine rack.

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A 23-year-old woman is facing several charges after Myrtle Beach police allege she bit, kicked and spit at two officers during a DUI arrest on Sunday evening.

The suspect, of Myrtle Beach, was stopped by Myrtle Beach Police just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday along 8th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard on suspicion of driving under the influence. Police say she admitted she had four mixed drinks before taking a partial sobriety test along the road.

Halfway through her field sobriety test, police report the suspect became extremely combative and refused to complete the tasks ordered by police. Because she refused to complete the test, she was taken into custody for driving under the influence.

During her arrest, a report states the 23-year-old became very combative with the arresting officers. Police say the suspect  grabbed one officer by the hair and refused to let go, while attempting to kick, scratch and bite a second officer. A tazer was used on the woman twice before she calmed down and was placed under arrest.

The suspect now faces charges for driving under the influence, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.

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The colourful head of Germany’s 25 million Protestants, dubbed by the media as a mixture of Mother Teresa and Demi Moore, resigned after being caught drunk-driving.

“Last Saturday, I made a big mistake,” Margot Kaessmann, 51, told reporters. “My heart tells me quite clearly that I cannot stay in office with the necessary authority . . . I hereby resign from all my church responsibilities.”

“I am very sorry to have disappointed many people who asked me to remain in office, and those who trustingly voted for me.”

Prosecutors said Kaessmann had been “completely unfit to drive” after police pulled over her luxury Volkswagen Phaeton saloon late on Saturday after she went through a red light 500 metres from her home.

Taken to a police station after failing a breathalyzer test, the bishop was found to be several times over the legal limit, and now faces a hefty fine and the loss of her driving licence for up to a year.

Mass circulation daily Bild also reported that an unidentified man had been next to the divorced mother of four in the car at the time.

A traffic stop of a suspected drunken driver led to the arrest of a murder suspect Saturday night.

About 10 p.m. Saturday, Merced area California Highway Patrol officers Collin Lowry and Scott Woodring made a traffic stop on a suspected drunk driver on Hillside Drive in the Delhi area.

During the course of the investigation, the officers determined the driver was a suspect in a murder that had occurred in Fresno earlier in the day. CHP Officer Shane Ferriera said the suspect, Gregory Webb, 35, of Fresno, is suspected of killing his roommate, Lammone Yommaram, 22, of Fresno.

Yommaram was stabbed to death just before 6 p.m. Saturday in central Fresno. Webb was allegedly staying with the victim and his family at their apartment, according to Fresno police. The family was in the apartment Saturday when Webb jumped up and began stabbing the victim for unknown reasons, according to police.

The CHP officers also determined that Webb was driving a stolen 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe, and arrested Webb for driving under the influence, a stolen vehicle and possession of stolen property.

Ferriera said Webb was turned over to Fresno police detectives, where he was arrested for suspicion of murder and booked into the Fresno County Jail.

The Fresno Bee contributed to this report. Reporter Carol Reiter can be reached at (209) 385-2486 or creiter@mercedsun-star.com.

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An East Tennessee grandfather has been charged with endangerment after police say they stopped him while he was driving, drinking and holding his grandson in his arms.

WRCB in Chattanooga reports that the suspect of Collegedale was stopped because his van had a broken tail light. The station says surveillance video then shows the driver exit the van holding a 2-year-old.

Collegedale police say he tested 0.13 on a breath test, which is about 1 1/2 times the legal limit. Police say the suspect told officers the boy had been riding in his lap and that he had drunk six or seven beers, including one that was half-full and still cold inside the vehicle.

He is charged with DUI, reckless endangerment and probation violation. Click the Source link below to reveal his identity.

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An arrest report says a Sullivan County deputy had to be placed in a K-9 cage after he became belligerent during a DUI arrest.

The Kingsport Times-News reports 47-year-old Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was fired from the sheriff’s office on Monday following an internal investigation of the incident.

The Tennessee State Highway patrol report says Trooper David Osborne arrested Bledsoe on Friday after a Tennessee Department of Transportation HELP truck driver called to report a driver who was “vomiting on himself and seemed very intoxicated.”

Osborne said he had to explain one field sobriety test 18 times to Bledsoe. He performed poorly.

Bledsoe repeatedly identified himself as a Sullivan County deputy and asked to be taken home. Troopers told him they couldn’t do that.

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Jury awards ex-Stripper $100K for DUI wreck

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A Jefferson County jury has awarded a former stripper $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club that employed her failed to stop her from driving home after her on-the-job drinking. Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer was injured in a wreck after leaving work at The Furnace on Oct. 17, 2007. She said she can no longer dance because of her injuries.

Hamaker said the club disregarded its own safety rules when it let her drive home that night. Attorneys for the club argued that employees tried to keep Hamaker from driving away.

The Birmingham News reported that the jury award made Tuesday is for compensatory damages. No punitive damages were awarded.

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Nearly five months after he was released from prison after serving time for his fourth DUI and for fleeing a law enforcement officer, a 36-year-old Ocala man was taken into custody early Saturday morning on several charges — including DUI and possession of cocaine, according to authorities.

At 12:19 a.m. Saturday, Deputy Frank Porcelli was dispatched to the 7500 block of Baseline Road after officials had received a call about a vehicle crashing into a field.

Arriving at the location, Porcelli saw a vehicle in the field and, as he approached it, noticed a man moving from the driver’s seat to the front passenger seat while the vehicle was still running.

The man, the deputy noted in his report, was moving his hands between the passenger door and the passenger seat, as if he was attempting to conceal something.

The man, later identified as William Wheat, exited the passenger side door and the deputy said he immediately detected the smell of alcohol, noticed Wheat’s speech was slurred and that his eyes appear to be blood-shot and watery.

Told he should wait by the vehicle for medics to arrive, Porcelli said Wheat shoved the deputy in the chest and ran toward a nearby field.

Catching him, the deputy said he tried to arrest Wheat, but he knocked Porcelli’s handcuffs out his hands.

Porcelli said he then pepper-sprayed Wheat, yet Wheat continued to struggle with the deputy. When the deputy tried to Tase Wheat, the man knocked the Taser away, causing the Taser cartridge to fall, Porcelli said.

The deputy then Tased Wheat several more times, which again had no effect on the 6-foot-5, 280-pound man, who continued to resist, according to Porcelli.

Three other deputies arrived and, during the struggle, were able to handcuff Wheat, the report said.

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Knoxville police have arrested a man they said assaulted an officer and then changed into women’s clothing in an attempt to disguise himself. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported a 19-year-old man was arrested Monday night on charges including DUI, assault on an officer, resisting arrest and burglary. He also has four outstanding warrants.

Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said the suspect assaulted Officer Andrew Gyorfi after the teen was pulled over at about 8 p.m. for driving a car that had been reported stolen in Chattanooga. He then ran to a nearby public housing project and entered a woman’s apartment, putting on her clothes and leaving his there.

He was arrested about two hours later while walking down the street wearing women’s shoes, pants and jacket.

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A Jefferson Circuit Court judge has denied the request of a for shock probation in the 2007 death of a Canadian truck driver.

22-year-old Emily Hall was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Abe Reimer on November 29, 2007. Hall was driving under the influence at the time of the crash on the Watterson Expressway near Breckenridge Lane. Her blood alcohol following the crash on was .210.

Hall appeared before Judge Barry Willett Tuesday morning requesting to be let out of jail after serving just 10 months of her sentence of 10 years.

In his order denying Hall probation request, Willett said that “shock probation should be sparingly granted only under compelling circumstances.” Willett’s order also said that “Hall’s continued imprisonment is necessary for the protection of the public” and found that Hall “will likely continue to drive under the influence of intoxicants if released on shock probation.”

Willett’s order also stated that releasing Hall would “depreciate the seriousness” of her crimes.

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