Teen charged with DWI

A 19-year-old in Thomasville, NC is facing several charges after causing a serious accident.  The accident occurred at approximately 11:30 a.m. early last week near Fisher Ferry and Denton Road.  The 19-year-old crashed his vehicle into another vehicle that was making...

Woman arrested for DWI after speeding

Police arrested a woman in Gastonia after she was clocked driving at 97 mph in a 60 mph zone.  A state trooper observed the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on I-85 south near N.C. 273. The trooper initiated a traffic stop expecting to write a speeding...

Mecklenburg DA recuses himself from DWI cases

The District Attorney’s office in Mecklenburg County is going to bring in two outside prosecutors to handle two DWI cases that are pending in Charlotte. The reason is to avoid a conflict of interest in the handling of the cases. The two people charged with DWI are...

DWI sentencing in North Carolina

DWI sentencing in North Carolina is dependent upon how many “factors” exist in an individual case.  The most serious factors that are considered are called grossly aggravating factors.  The more of these factors there are in a case the more serious the sentence will...