Monday, February 11, 2013
Erich Jacob Beck faces a felony charge of first-degree driving while impaired.
Hopkins police arrested a Minneapolis man on suspicion of his fourth drunken driving offense in about four years. Officers stopped 40-year-old Erich Jacob Beck on the 1200 block of Cambridge Street on Tuesday, Detective Renee Meuwissen wrote in the criminal complaint. They arrested him after noticing that his speech was slurred, he was unsteady on his feet and there was an odor of alcohol. A breath test at the department showed Beck had a blood alcohol content of .17 percent—just over twice the legal limit of .08 percent. Beck was previously convicted of refusal to take a breath test in October 2008, July 2010 and April 2012, according to court records. Because those convictions count as “qualified impaired driving incidents within 10 …
Monday, July 9, 2012
Another senseless tragedy leads me to believe that there are few things dumber than getting drunk and deciding to drive.
I'm going to try not to lecture anyone today. I'm going to try, but I'm not promising anything. I'm not promising anything because, frankly, I'm sick to my stomach. And I'm sick of this happening. When I was 18 years old, which was 20 years ago, my parents came into my bedroom one summer morning and told me that a classmate–a friend–had passed away, tragically, after he left a party on his motorcycle and never made it to his destination. I had seen him the night before. I knew. Fast-forward 20 years later. I grabbed my phone just for a moment, checking Facebook. Amazing how receiving the same sort of news has changed. Three people, whom I knew, were senselessly killed on Interstate 94 west of my former town of West Fargo. The driver…
Thursday, April 21, 2011
In honor of today's PowerTalk 21 event, Hopkins Patch invited a local expert to share some tips for how parents can talk with their children about alcohol.
(Editor’s note: Brenda Badger is the coordinator for Hopkins Community Coalition: One Voice—a community-wide effort aimed at decreasing the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs among youth in the Hopkins Public Schools. In honor of today's PowerTalk 21 event, Hopkins Patch invited her to share some tips for how parents can talk with their children about alcohol.) The Hopkins Community Coalition: ONE VOICE for Reducing Youth Chemical Use urges parents and caregivers to participate in PowerTalk 21, sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving on April 21st. PowerTalk 21 is a national day, started by MADD for parents to start talking with their kids about alcohol. MADD has created an excellent handbook for parents called, Power of Parents, …
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5:39 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
There's many sober cab programs like DWI ride home etc. They just need advance notice sometimes but they'll drive your car home. Cheaper than prison sentence or death. more ›