Chicago DUI Lawyer Blog

Dean A. Suominen, 37, of Shorewood avoided jail time after pleading guilty Tuesday in DuPage County to misdemeanor DUI and reckless driving after officials allege he was traveling at more than 140 mph at the time of the incident. Suominen was charged on January 10, 2012 after his Dodge Charger veered off the road, went…

Mark Ditka, 50, of Deerfield, pled guilty Wednesday to felony drunk driving and unlawful possession of a controlled substance at the Lake County Courthouse. Prosecutors allege that he was pulled over by police after he was observed weaving on Waukegan Road in Deerfield on October 7, 2012. The legendary coach’s son was sentenced to 24…

Delia Aguila, 27, of Humboldt Park was allegedly driving under the influence when she struck and killed two people changing a tire in the Parkview neighborhood. At approximately 10:45 p.m. on Saturday night, Aguila’s minivan reportedly swerved and struck William Brunson, 39, of Chicago and Victoria Means, 34, of Riverdale. According to the Cook County…

Jerzy Orczyk, 60, of Glenview is charged with aggravated DUI after allegedly crashing into two cars and seriously injuring another driver. According to the Cook County sheriff’s office, on January 6 around 3 p.m. Orczyk drove through a red light at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Central Road and struck another vehicle. He allegedly…

Glen Ray Higginbotham Jr., 34, of Yorkville was sentenced in Will County on Monday to 8 years in prison for two DUI arrests that occurred in 2010 and 2011 (4 years on each count). These arrests come after he served time in prison in 1999 for a drunken-driving crash that killed at 10-year-old girl in…

The police chief of Robbins, Illinois has been charged with driving under the influence for the second time. Johnny Holmes, 66, was stopped in Midlothian on Saturday night after police received a 911 call from a woman reporting that he nearly hit her car. According to police, they attempted to stop his vehicle about a…

According to a release, Gonzalo Aguilera, 28, of Elmwood Park has been charged with DUI after crashing in a Riverside forest preserve near Brookfield Zoo. On Saturday at 2:13 a.m., a caller told police that a vehicle had swerved across four lanes of 1st Avenue and crashed into the woods. Riverside police found Aguilera out…

The city reached a $6.25 million settlement with a pedestrian injured by Dwight Washington, a Chicago Streets and Sanitation worker, who drove his city vehicle into a crowd in May 2011. Washington was employed by the city of Chicago to collect debris and empty garbage cans at the time of the incident. His city truck…

Ayesha Crawford, 32, of Chicago is charged with DUI after allegedly driving off the side of a tow truck. Around 11 p.m. Saturday, Indiana State Police claim that Crawford skid her SUV to a stop while driving on the Borman Expressway to avoid hitting emergency vehicles on the scene for a truck fire. When police…

Former Chicago police detective, Joseph Frugoli, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for a fatal DUI crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway in 2009. Frugoli is blamed for the deaths of Andrew Cazares, 23, and Fausto Manzera, 21, a student at Depaul. In the early morning hours of April 10, 2009, Frugoli reportedly crashed…