DUI Arrests, Convictions, and Laws

James A. Enright, of the 1000 block of Shagbark Lane, was arrested Jan. 11 by Will County Sheriff’s Police and faces a Class X felony charge of aggravated DUI/6th offense.

He also is charged with obstructing justice/destroying evidence, driving on a revoked/suspended license, sixth arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol and transporting opened alcohol.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 2 on the charges.

Enright is being held in the Adult Detention Facility in lieu of $200,000 bail.

William Parminter of Lincoln, Neb., left the Lancaster County Courthouse Friday after a hearing for his eighth case of driving while intoxicated. Problem: His license was suspended, he was sipping a Keystone Light and his blood alcohol was .238.

After he left the courthouse, a police officer watched him walk to the same Jeep Cherokee he was arrested in back in May for a DUI, also while driving on a suspended license. Parminter has four DUI convictions; the other arrests were reduced to lesser charges.

Mayo, 50, of the 1100 block of Ging Street, continued driving erratically and eventually turned his car down the dead-end Taft Road, Westcott said.

Westcott positioned his vehicle — a decommissioned police cruiser owned by EHOVE — at the entrance to keep Mayo in place until deputies arrived.

Westcott was on the phone with 911 dispatchers through the entire incident.

“I’m going to park right here so they can’t get out on the road and kill somebody,” Westcott told the dispatcher in a recorded 911 call.

Westcott watched as the car turned around and pulled nose-to-nose with him. Mayo then exited the car and flashed a peace sign, Westcott said.

Mayo started yelling and gesturing wildly, a scene Westcott calmly narrated to the dispatcher.

Mayo stumbled back into the driver’s seat of his car and ran Westcott partially off the road to exit the dead-end street. He then sped west on Mason Road, with Westcott following close behind.

Erie County Sheriff’s deputies soon closed in on him.

“I’ll keep behind him just for a second just until he gets back up, just to act like a law enforcer so they don’t try anything squirrely,” Westcott told the dispatcher as Deputy Greg Hall caught up to the speeding car.

The Ford Fusion finally pulled over just west of Patten Tract Road.

Ione

Thorng Sirprasert, 22, Stockton; 2:30 p.m. on State Route 88 east of Martin Lane; DUI, driving without a license.

Dec. 26

Plymouth

Eileen Caroline Andrae, 32, Rocklin; 2:29 a.m. on highways 16 and 124; DUI.

Pioneer

Kyle Michael Judd, 18, Pine Grove; 2:03 a.m. on State Route 88 west of Buckhorn Ridge Road; DUI.

Acting on a hunch, Lincoln Police Officer John Clarke followed William E. Parminter out of court on Thursday.

Parminter was in Lancaster County District Court for a hearing regarding his fourth-offense DUI arrest. Clarke assisted in the May 14 arrest and was prepared to testify in the evidence suppression hearing Thursday, but it was continued, Officer Katie Flood said.

When Parminter, 54, left the hearing at about noon, Clarke walked out of the courthouse and followed him down the street to a Jeep Cherokee he wasn’t supposed to be driving, the same Jeep Cherokee he wasn’t supposed to be driving when he was stopped on May 14 because his license had been — and still is — suspended.

Flood said Clarke watched Parminter get into the Jeep and head north, then pulled him over moments later at the U-Stop at 610 S. 10th St.

Clarke said Parminter smelled of alcohol, and he found a half-full can of Keystone Light in the center console of the Cherokee, according to Flood.

A preliminary breath test indicated Parminter’s blood-alcohol content was 0.238 percent, almost three times the legal limit to drive, police said.

Parminter, 1738 S. 18th St., was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence(DUI), fifth-offense; driving during a suspension; open container; and no proof of insurance.