Chicago DUI Lawyer Blog

Highwood Mayor, Charlie Pecaro, was arrested over Labor Day weekend for driving under the influence after officers witnessed him following too closely and driving with his headlights off. A Judge agreed to a deferred judgement with a year of court supervision. As a result, the DUI will not appear on Pecaro’s public record unless he…

Sheila Kane, 30, was charged with aggravated DUI after she struck a bicyclist on the Near West Side. Witnesses at a bar reported seeing Kane consume six vodka drinks before getting behind the wheel of her vehicle. Kane reportedly crashed into a barrier causing the vehicle to flip over before striking the bicyclist. The victim…

Henry Jesus Mendez, 21, was arrested in connection with car chase that resulted in a crash in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Mendez allegedly began firing a gun at individuals he recently had an altercation with at a nearby nightclub. Police officers heard the gunshots and responded to the scene where witnesses pointed out the…

Diana Paz, 35, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence during an early Friday morning stop. About two hours later she was released and dropped off at a BP gas station near the Eisenhower Expressway. Thirty minutes later she was struck and killed as she walked along the median of the expressway. Paz was arrested…

Bruce Brandwein, defense attorney for Alia Bernard, will argue that the “any amount” of marijuana law recently passed by the Illinois Supreme Court is unconstitutional and violates equal protection under the law. Bernard was originally charged with reckless homicide, but aggravated DUI charges were filed after blood test detected some amount of marijuana in her…

Michael Villanueva, 25, was pronounced dead at the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood after a DUI crash on the Eisenhower Expressway near Oak Park. Villanueva was standing outside his vehicle, which had crashed into a wall on the expressway, when he was struck by an SUV driven by a 61 year old woman. The…

Annabella Loerop, 4, was killed when she was hit by a vehicle driven by an allegedly drunk teen. The 17 year old, Deandre Wolf, has been charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and reckless homicide in the death of the four year old. Wolf, 16 years old at the time of the incident,…

William Anthony Howe was driving a Porsche the wrong-way on Interstate 88 when he struck a vehicle killing a woman and her father and seriously injuring her husband. Howe remains hospitalized. He has not yet been charged with the crash or been confirmed as the driver. However, witnesses reported he was swerving all over the…

ESPN analyst and former Chicago Bulls player, Jalen Rose, was arrested last March for DUI after his vehicle veered off of a snowy road. There were no injuries in the accident. The 38-year-old blew a .12 after the arrest. Rose was convicted on the charge last week in Bloomfield Hills and, despite this being his…

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in April that prosecutors can upgrade charges to a felony in a fatal crash if any trace of an illegal drug is found in the defendant’s system regardless of evidence of impairment. The law applies to both illicit drugs and the unlawful use of controlled substances. This ruling came out…