Glen Alan Leitner faces nurmerous charges
after driving while intoxicated over the
weekend! A witness told police that Leitner
was driving eastbound on a westbound lane
and collided with another car driven by
Ronald Beaver. Beaver suffered a dislocated hip
and fractures. Leitner was taken to York
County Prison in lieu of 50k bail!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Labor day weekend sobriety checks planned!!
Sobriety checkpoints will be held in York,Adams,
and Cumberland counties over the holiday
weekend. The checkpoints are part of a national
"Drive Sober or Get Pulled over" campaign!
Times are 6pm friday to 6pm monday
and Cumberland counties over the holiday
weekend. The checkpoints are part of a national
"Drive Sober or Get Pulled over" campaign!
Times are 6pm friday to 6pm monday
Bowman charged in his brothers death
Man charged in 2010 vehicular death of brother
Robert Elwood Bowman Jr., 24, of Windsor Township, faces homicide by vehicle and other charges
Daily Record/Sunday News
reposted by breathalyzermd.com
Robert Elwood Bowman Jr. (SUBMITTED)
York, PA - Charges against a Windsor Township man -- alleging he killed his brother in a car crash while under the influence of alcohol and drugs -- have been transferred to the York County Court of Common Pleas.
The charges against Robert Elwood Bowman Jr., 24, of the 700 block of Taylor Road, were bound for the higher court following a preliminary hearing before District Judge John H. Fishel on Aug. 22.
Bowman is charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, four counts of DUI -- for both alcohol and drugs -- careless driving, and speeding.
Bowman was driving a car on Nov. 26, 2010 in Windsor Township when it crashed, killing his brother, Tre Parker, according to charging documents.
Parker, 19, of Lower Windsor Township, was a 2009 graduate of Eastern York Senior High School, and a distinguished student and athlete, according to his obituary.
It took investigators several months to reconstruct the crash, conduct interviews and consult with the York County District Attorney's Office before filing charges, York Area Regional Police Sgt. Rod Varner said Thursday.
Police say their investigation found that Witmer Road was wet prior to the crash from an overnight rain, and that the road where the crash occurred had about a 12-percent downgrade.
Bowman made no attempt to steer through the road's curve, or to take evasive actions, including braking, once the car began to careen off the road, according to charging documents.
Neither Bowman, not his attorney, Bill Graff, could be reached for comment Thursday.
Bowman's next court date is an arraignment in county court on Sept. 30.
* * *
York Area Regional Police, along with rescue personnel, were sent to Witmer Road at 4:34 a.m., where they found a 1993 Toyota Tercel on the road, with pieces of a broken utility pole and power lines lying on top of it.
When police arrived, Bowman, who was outside the car, asking responders to help his brother, who was still inside.
Bowman was "extremely upset and would not follow the officers instructions so they took him into custody," according to charging documents.
An officer spoke with Bowman, who said that he and his brother had left a club and were driving down a hill on Witmer Road when they struck the pole, according to charging documents.
Bowman smelled of marijuana and alcohol, according to charging documents. He was later taken to York Hospital for treatment.
Police found Parker -- who they later determined owned the Toyota -- unresponsive in the front seat of the car. Parker was later pronounced dead at the scene by the York County Coroner's Office.
Robert Elwood Bowman Jr., 24, of Windsor Township, faces homicide by vehicle and other charges
Daily Record/Sunday News
reposted by breathalyzermd.com
Robert Elwood Bowman Jr. (SUBMITTED)
York, PA - Charges against a Windsor Township man -- alleging he killed his brother in a car crash while under the influence of alcohol and drugs -- have been transferred to the York County Court of Common Pleas.
The charges against Robert Elwood Bowman Jr., 24, of the 700 block of Taylor Road, were bound for the higher court following a preliminary hearing before District Judge John H. Fishel on Aug. 22.
Bowman is charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, four counts of DUI -- for both alcohol and drugs -- careless driving, and speeding.
Bowman was driving a car on Nov. 26, 2010 in Windsor Township when it crashed, killing his brother, Tre Parker, according to charging documents.
Parker, 19, of Lower Windsor Township, was a 2009 graduate of Eastern York Senior High School, and a distinguished student and athlete, according to his obituary.
It took investigators several months to reconstruct the crash, conduct interviews and consult with the York County District Attorney's Office before filing charges, York Area Regional Police Sgt. Rod Varner said Thursday.
Police say their investigation found that Witmer Road was wet prior to the crash from an overnight rain, and that the road where the crash occurred had about a 12-percent downgrade.
Bowman made no attempt to steer through the road's curve, or to take evasive actions, including braking, once the car began to careen off the road, according to charging documents.
Neither Bowman, not his attorney, Bill Graff, could be reached for comment Thursday.
Bowman's next court date is an arraignment in county court on Sept. 30.
* * *
York Area Regional Police, along with rescue personnel, were sent to Witmer Road at 4:34 a.m., where they found a 1993 Toyota Tercel on the road, with pieces of a broken utility pole and power lines lying on top of it.
When police arrived, Bowman, who was outside the car, asking responders to help his brother, who was still inside.
Bowman was "extremely upset and would not follow the officers instructions so they took him into custody," according to charging documents.
An officer spoke with Bowman, who said that he and his brother had left a club and were driving down a hill on Witmer Road when they struck the pole, according to charging documents.
Bowman smelled of marijuana and alcohol, according to charging documents. He was later taken to York Hospital for treatment.
Police found Parker -- who they later determined owned the Toyota -- unresponsive in the front seat of the car. Parker was later pronounced dead at the scene by the York County Coroner's Office.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Ribbon Cutting for breathalyzermd.com at York Chamber of Commerce
August 18,2011
York Chamber of Commerce
York,Pa
9am est
posted by Joseph Boone
In keeping faith with its mission to
"Help Keep Pennsylvania's Roads
Safe" local business owner Joseph Boone,LPN
and his company, breathalyzermd.com unveils
The Breathkey! Worlds first FDA approved
keychain size alcohol breathalyzers now Free
for Pennsylvania residents.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Ok not DUI news, but angers me that big Bro is trying to block this!
AT&T Losing T-Mobile Seen Spurring Exodus on Dropped Calls: Tech
September 01, 2011, 12:25 AM EDT
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Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government’s effort to block the takeover of T-Mobile USA Inc. chokes off AT&T Inc.’s path to an expanded network and wrecks its plan to gain as much as $20 billion in airwaves to help handle surging call volume.
The U.S. Justice Department yesterday sued to block the company’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., calling it a threat to wireless competition. The deal was struck to give AT&T the capacity it needs to ease network congestion, and accelerate the rollout of faster, next-generation network technology -- key pieces of AT&T’s effort to add subscribers and step up earnings growth.
If AT&T fails to gain T-Mobile’s network, some of its 98.6 million customers may defect to rivals to avoid dropped calls and get access to faster services for smartphones and tablets. Besides paying a $3 billion breakup fee, AT&T would also have to transfer some of its spectrum to T-Mobile, further squeezing its network capacity and stalling plans for growth.
“The issue is loss of spectrum,” said Michael Mahoney, a senior managing director at San Francisco-based Falcon Point Capital LLC. “It’s clearly a negative. They’ve been capacity- constrained because of the huge popularity of the iPhone.”
The purchase would have combined the second- and fourth- largest U.S. carriers into the nation’s largest wireless-service provider, helping the enlarged company wring costs and improve margins. Verizon Wireless is the No. 1 wireless service company in the U.S., and Sprint Nextel Corp. is the third-biggest.
Long-Term Evolution
When the acquisition was announced March 20, AT&T said it would expand the introduction of its high-speed wireless technology, called Long-Term Evolution, or LTE. At the time, AT&T said it would offer the service to an additional 46.5 million people as part of the deal, helping achieve the Federal Communications Commission goal of making broadband available more widely.
The Justice Department is seeking a declaration that AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, would violate U.S. antitrust law, according to a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Washington. The U.S. also asked for a court order blocking implementation of the deal, saying it would crimp competition for wireless services in the U.S.
“There’s no good way to spin this for AT&T,” Craig Moffett, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said in a note to investors yesterday.
AT&T, based in Dallas, said in a statement it plans to “vigorously contest this matter in court.” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said the company wasn’t commenting beyond the statement. Deutsche Telekom said it was disappointed by the action.
Cash, Wireless Spectrum
Deutsche Telekom has said that the deal’s failure would leave AT&T liable for a breakup package valued at as much as $7 billion, including the $3 billion in cash, wireless spectrum and reduced charges for calls into AT&T’s network.
As use of data-enabled handsets such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone skyrocketed, mobile data traffic on AT&T’s network grew 8,000 percent over the past four years, the company said.
In December 2009, AT&T finished last in a Consumer Reports customer survey of the top four U.S. wireless carriers, while Verizon Wireless ranked highest. AT&T shared the bottom spot with Sprint, Consumer Reports said. Later that month, AT&T wireless chief Ralph de la Vega called the company’s mobile performance in San Francisco and New York unsatisfactory.
AT&T’s spectrum and capacity constraints are already “more severe than those of any other wireless provider,” according to Mobilize Everything, a website set up by the merging companies. And as more consumers buy smartphones and tablets, AT&T expects data traffic to increase another eight to 10 times by 2015.
Adding Network Capacity
To keep up, AT&T has raced to add more network capacity in the past several years. This includes expanding its so-called fiber backhaul capacity, used to move calls and data between cell towers that communicate with mobile phones. The company expects as much as 70 percent of its traffic to be sent via fiber backhaul by year-end, up from less than 30 percent at the end of 2010, AT&T said earlier this year.
Still, the company needs more airwaves dedicated to wireless communications, or spectrum -- a limited and expensive resource -- to stay in step with the surge in customer data use and subscriber growth.
T-Mobile’s spectrum is worth $15 billion to $20 billion, said Tim Farrar, founder of Telecom, Media and Finance Associates Inc., a Menlo Park, California-based research firm.
“Spectrum is about half of the value of what they bid,” Farrar said in an interview.
Growth at Risk
If the T-Mobile deal falls through, the company may have to scale back its plans to deploy faster networking technology, Kevin Smithen, an analyst at Macquarie Securities USA Inc., said in an interview. In June, AT&T pledged to invest an additional $8 billion over seven years to integrate the two carriers’ networks and expand LTE technology, which lets mobile devices link to the Web at faster speeds.
Without the acquisition, the earnings boost expected by analysts is also at risk, Smithen said.
“Our concern is AT&T is a very modest revenue-growth company” without T-Mobile, Smithen said. He expected $2 billion in annual improvements in earnings before costs such as depreciation and taxes, which would have increased AT&T’s earnings growth from a percentage in the low single digits to a percentage in the high single digits, he said.
The company also was expected to reduce monthly churn, or the average number of subscribers leaving the service, among T- Mobile customers. A lower rate of defections could widen T- Mobile’s margins to be on par with AT&T’s, Smithen said.
AT&T’s stock may decline to $25 instead of possibly rising to $35 if the merger is completed, Smithen said. The shares fell $1.14, or 3.9 percent, to $28.48 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.
While AT&T still might seek to acquire spectrum from other companies, such as Comcast Corp., Dish Network Corp., Clearwire Corp. or LightSquared Inc., any other deals are now going to be viewed with skepticism because they are likely to face similar regulatory scrutiny, Smithen said.
“It’s going to be difficult for AT&T and Verizon to do any acquisitions now,” he said. “The DOJ is going to take a hard look at whatever they can do to block it.
September 01, 2011, 12:25 AM EDT
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By Olga Kharif
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Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government’s effort to block the takeover of T-Mobile USA Inc. chokes off AT&T Inc.’s path to an expanded network and wrecks its plan to gain as much as $20 billion in airwaves to help handle surging call volume.
The U.S. Justice Department yesterday sued to block the company’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., calling it a threat to wireless competition. The deal was struck to give AT&T the capacity it needs to ease network congestion, and accelerate the rollout of faster, next-generation network technology -- key pieces of AT&T’s effort to add subscribers and step up earnings growth.
If AT&T fails to gain T-Mobile’s network, some of its 98.6 million customers may defect to rivals to avoid dropped calls and get access to faster services for smartphones and tablets. Besides paying a $3 billion breakup fee, AT&T would also have to transfer some of its spectrum to T-Mobile, further squeezing its network capacity and stalling plans for growth.
“The issue is loss of spectrum,” said Michael Mahoney, a senior managing director at San Francisco-based Falcon Point Capital LLC. “It’s clearly a negative. They’ve been capacity- constrained because of the huge popularity of the iPhone.”
The purchase would have combined the second- and fourth- largest U.S. carriers into the nation’s largest wireless-service provider, helping the enlarged company wring costs and improve margins. Verizon Wireless is the No. 1 wireless service company in the U.S., and Sprint Nextel Corp. is the third-biggest.
Long-Term Evolution
When the acquisition was announced March 20, AT&T said it would expand the introduction of its high-speed wireless technology, called Long-Term Evolution, or LTE. At the time, AT&T said it would offer the service to an additional 46.5 million people as part of the deal, helping achieve the Federal Communications Commission goal of making broadband available more widely.
The Justice Department is seeking a declaration that AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, would violate U.S. antitrust law, according to a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Washington. The U.S. also asked for a court order blocking implementation of the deal, saying it would crimp competition for wireless services in the U.S.
“There’s no good way to spin this for AT&T,” Craig Moffett, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said in a note to investors yesterday.
AT&T, based in Dallas, said in a statement it plans to “vigorously contest this matter in court.” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said the company wasn’t commenting beyond the statement. Deutsche Telekom said it was disappointed by the action.
Cash, Wireless Spectrum
Deutsche Telekom has said that the deal’s failure would leave AT&T liable for a breakup package valued at as much as $7 billion, including the $3 billion in cash, wireless spectrum and reduced charges for calls into AT&T’s network.
As use of data-enabled handsets such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone skyrocketed, mobile data traffic on AT&T’s network grew 8,000 percent over the past four years, the company said.
In December 2009, AT&T finished last in a Consumer Reports customer survey of the top four U.S. wireless carriers, while Verizon Wireless ranked highest. AT&T shared the bottom spot with Sprint, Consumer Reports said. Later that month, AT&T wireless chief Ralph de la Vega called the company’s mobile performance in San Francisco and New York unsatisfactory.
AT&T’s spectrum and capacity constraints are already “more severe than those of any other wireless provider,” according to Mobilize Everything, a website set up by the merging companies. And as more consumers buy smartphones and tablets, AT&T expects data traffic to increase another eight to 10 times by 2015.
Adding Network Capacity
To keep up, AT&T has raced to add more network capacity in the past several years. This includes expanding its so-called fiber backhaul capacity, used to move calls and data between cell towers that communicate with mobile phones. The company expects as much as 70 percent of its traffic to be sent via fiber backhaul by year-end, up from less than 30 percent at the end of 2010, AT&T said earlier this year.
Still, the company needs more airwaves dedicated to wireless communications, or spectrum -- a limited and expensive resource -- to stay in step with the surge in customer data use and subscriber growth.
T-Mobile’s spectrum is worth $15 billion to $20 billion, said Tim Farrar, founder of Telecom, Media and Finance Associates Inc., a Menlo Park, California-based research firm.
“Spectrum is about half of the value of what they bid,” Farrar said in an interview.
Growth at Risk
If the T-Mobile deal falls through, the company may have to scale back its plans to deploy faster networking technology, Kevin Smithen, an analyst at Macquarie Securities USA Inc., said in an interview. In June, AT&T pledged to invest an additional $8 billion over seven years to integrate the two carriers’ networks and expand LTE technology, which lets mobile devices link to the Web at faster speeds.
Without the acquisition, the earnings boost expected by analysts is also at risk, Smithen said.
“Our concern is AT&T is a very modest revenue-growth company” without T-Mobile, Smithen said. He expected $2 billion in annual improvements in earnings before costs such as depreciation and taxes, which would have increased AT&T’s earnings growth from a percentage in the low single digits to a percentage in the high single digits, he said.
The company also was expected to reduce monthly churn, or the average number of subscribers leaving the service, among T- Mobile customers. A lower rate of defections could widen T- Mobile’s margins to be on par with AT&T’s, Smithen said.
AT&T’s stock may decline to $25 instead of possibly rising to $35 if the merger is completed, Smithen said. The shares fell $1.14, or 3.9 percent, to $28.48 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.
While AT&T still might seek to acquire spectrum from other companies, such as Comcast Corp., Dish Network Corp., Clearwire Corp. or LightSquared Inc., any other deals are now going to be viewed with skepticism because they are likely to face similar regulatory scrutiny, Smithen said.
“It’s going to be difficult for AT&T and Verizon to do any acquisitions now,” he said. “The DOJ is going to take a hard look at whatever they can do to block it.
Not my Grandma!?
PARK RIVER, N.D. — A 69-year-old Park River woman was arrested for drunken driving after authorities say she hit her husband while driving out of the couple’s garage. Catherine Hjelmstad calls the charge “ridiculous.”
The Highway Patrol says 69-year-old Milton Hjelmstad was hospitalized in Grafton with unspecified injuries after the incident late Monday afternoon. Authorities say he was pinned under the front bumper of the sport utility vehicle.
Catherine Hjelmstad tells The Associated Press that she had “three or four drinks” and got behind the wheel only to help her husband park the SUV in the garage.
She disputes that her husband was pinned under the vehicle — she says he suffered a stroke. She did not have a condition update on Tuesday. She says she’s uncertain if she’ll fight the DUI charge.
The Highway Patrol says 69-year-old Milton Hjelmstad was hospitalized in Grafton with unspecified injuries after the incident late Monday afternoon. Authorities say he was pinned under the front bumper of the sport utility vehicle.
Catherine Hjelmstad tells The Associated Press that she had “three or four drinks” and got behind the wheel only to help her husband park the SUV in the garage.
She disputes that her husband was pinned under the vehicle — she says he suffered a stroke. She did not have a condition update on Tuesday. She says she’s uncertain if she’ll fight the DUI charge.
Friday, August 26, 2011
gettysburg drunk driver
York, PA - A Gettysburg woman has been sentenced to York County Prison, house arrest and probation for a drunken driving crash that injured a teenager in June 2010.
Then 15, Ramondo Garcia, who lived in the first block of Westminster Avenue in Penn Township at the time, told police he had stepped outside because a storm had knocked out the electricity in the neighborhood.
According to court documents, Ramondo was standing between two parked vehicles when Laura Howard struck the rear of one, pinning the boy's legs between the bumpers. Ramondo testified at Howard's preliminary hearing that one of his legs was broken and the other was dislocated at the knee.
According to Penn Township Police reports, Howard, 34, had a blood alcohol level of 0.217 percent, more than 21/2 times the legal limit for driving, and failed field sobriety tests.
Howard was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 days in county prison, six months house arrest and the balance of four years on probation for aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence. She also was fined $500 for driving under the influence and ordered to submit to a drug and alcohol evaluation.
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