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Tampa DUI News – DUI Manslaughter Charges Filed Versus MacDIll Marine Captain Following Car Crash

Three-months after a head-on crash on 1-275 killed a motorist, a Marine Corps Captain has been charged with DUI manslaughter and was arrested in Tampa where he is serving at MacDill Air Force Base. Capt. Scott Patrick Sciple was booked and released from jail on $25,500 bail Tuesday afternoon according to a report in the St. Pete Times. The 37-year-old Marine is accused of driving drunk on the morning of April 25 when he drove the wrong way on I-275. As he neared Bearss Avenue he was involved in a head-on collision with a Chevy Malibu. The car was driven by 48-year-old Pedro Rivera who was taken to St.…

Tampa DUI News – Osceola County Assistant Principal Arrested For DUI In Tampa

An assistant principal at Osceola County’s St. Cloud High School was arrested in Tampa and charged with a Hillsborough County DUI. According to numerous reports on Orlando TV station websites, 35-year-old Jeffrey Schwartz was arrested following a 1:00 a.m. stop Saturday in Tampa. According to one report Schwartz was driving the wrong way down a Tampa street when he was stopped. He has since bonded out of jail. Schwartz’s arrest has burned up the Internet in his hometown and his mug shot has even ended up as the profile picture on numerous Facebook accounts according to My Fox Orlando.…

Tampa DUI News – Tampa Woman Violates Her DUI Probation, Sentenced To Six Years In Prison

The saga of a woman on DUI probation for a Tampa DUI manslaughter conviction continued on Wednesday. Tiffany Marie Graham has been sentenced to six years in prison for violating her DUI manslaughter probation by leaving Hillsborough County without permission. The conviction dates back to a 2004 drunk driving accident that cost her 15-year-old passenger her life. Graham was sentenced to one year in jail and six years probation following that fatal crash. She avoided a harsh Florida DUI sentence following that accident but she wasn’t so lucky this time after violating her probation.…

Tampa DUI News– Woman Who Served A Year For DUI Manslaughter Arrested For Second DUI

In May of 2004 15-year-old Deanna Cain was killed in a DUI crash that landed her 19-year-old friend Tiffany Marie Graham in jail for one year on DUI manslaughter charges. Graham was 19 at the time and she was sentenced as a youthful offender. While Cain’s family never wanted Graham to serve a 15-year prison sentence they also worried that just one year in jail wasn’t enough either according to TampaBay.com. It seems the young girl’s parents were right. Graham has been back in trouble with the law since serving her DUI sentence. In March she violated her probation with a petty theft charge.…

Tampa DUI Arrest – Actor From HBO Series The Sopranos Arrested For DUI In Tampa

An actor who appeared in 41 episodes of HBO’s TV series The Soprano’s was arrested for DUI in Tampa Thursday evening with reported blood-alcohol levels of .111. Joseph Gannascoli played a mobster named Vito Spatafore who was killed during the TV series after nearly 50 appearances on the show. Gannascoli was arrested in Hyde Park where he was pulled over at 2:42 a.m. According to the arresting officer the New York resident made a wide turn onto Kennedy Blvd. from Howard Avenue. He then reportedly saw the actor drift in his lane and drive on the lane marker. He was pulled over at that point.…

Tampa DUI Penalties – Hillsborough Man Sentenced To Five Years In Prison Following Fatal DUI Crash

The DUI penalties in Tampa Bay are different from one side of the bay to the next and that was illustrated once again today with a five-year DUI jail sentence for a deadly crash. Justin Jones pled guilty to DUI manslaughter, DUI with property damage and three counts of DUI with serious bodily injury. He was sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years probation according to his plea agreement. Jones was at a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football game with his groomsmen. It was just over a week until his wedding. The Bucs won, the Tampa Rays were on the verge of clinching a World Series berth and the friends were listening to the baseball game as they left Raymond James Stadium.…

How to make money with a net model – my knowledge

How to make money with a net model – my knowledge

In this article, I want to share with readers my personal knowledge as a web model. One of my associates told me about the website of the world wide web models where you can make money, and I decided to try it. Not particularly straining but not compromising with my meaningful principles, I managed to get to function more than $ 800 dollars a month. In the event this way of making money is certainly interesting, I invite one to read about my experience, it will probably be interesting. What does such a site represent? This is certainly an entertainment resource belonging to the category (18+), providing video communication between registered users and models, online.…

Tampa DUI Arrest Information – Which Hillsborough County Judge Gets Assigned To My Tampa DUI Case

If you are arrested for DUI in Tampa you will be assigned to a Hillsborough County Judge in a manner that is different from many surrounding counties. In Hillsborough County if you are arrested for driving drunk you will be assigned to a judge based on your last name. Six different judges handle all the DUI cases in Hillsborough and the system of dividing the case load by last name is done to alleviate one judge being burdened with too many cases. If your last name begins with a C, K or R then Judge Cheryl Thomas would handle your case. If you have a last name that starts with the letters D, M, N, X or Y your judge would be John N.…

Tampa DUI News – DUI Manslaughter Sentence Handed Down In Tampa Courtroom

Justin Michael Jones was sentenced to five years in prison today following a plea bargain on a Tampa DUI manslaughter charge, three counts of DUI with serious bodily injury and two misdemeanor charges of DUI with personal injury. The 28-year-old will also have to serve 10 years probation when he is released from prison. The sentence comes after a February plea bargain that was accepted by a Hillsborough County judge. The DUI manslaughter plea was entered into without any pre-sentencing agreement on the length of the prison term according to a story in the Tampa Tribune’s on-line edition.…

Tampa DUI News – Tampa Man Tries To Escape DUI Charge By Running Deputy Off The Road

Christopher Scott Odum decided to take a dangerous approach to avoiding a possible Tampa DUI charge. The 37-year-old allegedly tried to run a deputy off the road in hopes of escaping a drunk driving arrest. The plan didn’t work and all it really did was result in more charges and luckily none of them included an injury or a death. Odum was first seen by a sheriff’s deputy driving around 1:00 a.m. in a red pickup. The Hillsborough County deputy was obviously investigating Odum because the man decided to swerve his Toyota into the path of the sheriff’s vehicle. The deputy had to cross the median to avoid being hit.…
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