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Vince Neil, the singer of Motley Crue, was arrested in Las Vegas after failing a field sobriety test. He was pulled over in his Lamborghini near the Las Vegas Strip early Monday morning on suspicion of drunken driving. The 49-year-old was taken to Clark County Detention Center.

According to Las Vegas police, Neil was leaving the Las Vegas Hilton when he was arrested. Neil posted $2000 bail and was released. He will be back in court in late September.

This news is somewhat ironic in that Neil's arrest comes one week after declaring his sobriety, as well as announcing the release of a tell-all book. The book apparently describes Neil's long struggle with drugs and alcohol.

In 1984, when Neil was just 25, he crashed a sports car head-on into another vehicle in Redondo Beach. That crash killed Neil's passenger, Nicholas Dingley, then drummer for another California band, Hanoi Rocks. Neil pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving. He served 20 days and agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution to the victims of the accident.

If you have been charged with DUI in Orange County or Orlando, Florida, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm for a free initial case consultation.

A 23-year-old Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student was sentenced to jail and probation on Wednesday for an accident that killed his 20-year-old friend. In addition, the judge sentenced him to speak to high school students about his mistake nine times a year for the next five years.

The young Daytona Beach man was driving north on I-95 with his friend just after 11 pm on May 28, 2009 when he hit a guard rail. His friend was ejected and killed. The man was charged with DUI when his blood alcohol content was found to be 0.106 and over the 0.08 limit.

While he could have faced as many as 15 years in prison if convicted, he was instead placed on probation for 15 years. His drivers' license was revoked for life and he must spend the first 270 days of his sentence in Volusia County Branch Jail. His sentence could have been much worse, but the parents of his friend who died, the prosecutor, and his defense lawyer reached an agreement.

This is the worst kind of mistake you can make if you drink and drive. Killing another person is always a threat when you choose to get behind the wheel after drinking. Spending the next decade behind bars to think about it is just one of the many consequences that can happen. This young man is lucky. His friend's parents did not want him to go to prison, but instead want him to honor their only son's life.

We don't want to see good people who make one mistake wind up in prison, broken for life. We believe in second chances and that you can learn from your mistake. The experienced defense attorneys at the Umanksy Law Firm work hard to make sure you get that second chance.

If you have been charged with DUI in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm today. We offer a free initial case consultation.

Rapper Lil' Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter, is already spending time in a New York prison for gun charges. However, that didn't stop him from pleading guilty to an Arizona drug charge. He appeared in Arizona court via video monitor on Monday.

The charges are from January 2008 when a bust on Carter's tour bus lead to police allegedly finding ecstasy in his backpack. The gun charges that lead to Wayne's New York incarceration stem from his 2007 arrest outside a night club. A .40 caliber pistol was then found on his tour bus.

Lil' Wayne was facing a three-year prison sentence if convicted. By pleading guilty, he could receive 36 months probation in the plea deal he received. The plea deal is a recommendation that needs to be confirmed when Carter appears before a judge at a later date.

Being charged with drug possession does not have to be something that will keep you from doing whatever you want to, but you need to hire an experienced lawyer who can make sure your rights are represented fairly in court.

If you have been charged with a drug offense in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm for a free case consultation.

Painter Thomas Kinkade, whose paintings seem to be in every mall gallery and model home across the country, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor drunken driving in Carmel, California last Friday.

The self-described "painter of light" was pulled over for a vehicle code violation by a Monterey County sheriff's deputy who then called for assistance from the California Highway Patrol. When CHP arrived, they performed roadside sobriety tests and determined he was impaired. Throughout the testing, Kinkade was reportedly "very polite." He submitted to a blood test, but his results are not being released. Kinkade was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor drunken driving in the Monterey County jail.

Perhaps related, on June 2, Kinkade's company, Pacific Metro filed for bankruptcy protection. The company allegedly owes between 1000 and 5000 creditors a total of $10 million to $50 million. Two gallery owners in Virginia are owed $2.4 million. The couple won a fraud claim against Kinkade in arbitration in 2006.

The misdemeanor DUI charge will likely see Kinkade paying a fine and having to take alcohol classes, especially if it is his first. Kinkade is surely more concerned about the millions of dollars his corporation owes creditors, and the fraud charges.

It's as easy to bring a man down as it is to build him up. When he has others around him giving him advice, their bad decisions only hurt him while they skate away mostly intact. Sadly, the sentimental nature of Kinkade's art so loved by many in the country may result in his personal and financial ruin.

If you have been charged with DUI in Orange County or Orlando, Florida, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm for a free case consultation.

Florida state prosecutors want the bail of a former Grand-Am race car driver suspected of operating a Ponzi scheme revoked. They argue he should never have been allowed to bail out.

The scheme allegedly targeted fellow race car drivers, retirees, and other victims and bilked them out of over five million dollars. The scheme it encouraged people to invest in iron ore with promised returns of 40%. As with many Ponzi schemes, the victims never saw their money. Among the investors who lost money are well-known race car drivers. The suspect was arrested in February and charged with organized scheme to defraud.

The suspect posted $100,000 bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail last week, but the assistant statewide prosecutor requested the bail to be revoked since it did not comply with the judge's orders. The judge ordered the bail not to come from "ill-gotten gains," but there are recorded phone calls between the suspect and his girlfriend that allegedly show the money was from funds obtained through the Ponzi scheme. It was apparently understood the bail was to come from the suspect's father.

If you or a loved one has been charged with fraud in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm for a free initial case consultation.

A DUI charge against the daughter of U.S. Rep. John Mica was dropped after an Orange County judge granted the defense a motion to suppress the initial stop. Her attorney successfully argued that the arresting officer from Maitland Police was outside his jurisdiction when she was arrested in Winter Park.

The woman was arrested and charged with DUI after her BAC was found to be twice the legal limit. She was stopped by the officer "to check on her well being." She allegedly traveled over a line a couple times, but it was not continuous weaving like might be seen in a truly inebriated driver. This, plus the reason for pulling her over, essentially ruined the prosecution's case that she was over the limit.

The stop occurred last January when police saw the woman's SUV drifting back and forth. She was stopped and the officer asked her if she was okay. He wrote in his report that he smelled alcohol and the driver's eyes were bloodshot and glassy. She changed her story about where she was a couple times, and allegedly failed two field sobriety tests. She also failed two breath tests, blowing a 0.192 and a 0.198.

It may seem on the surface that the police had sufficient reason to arrest the driver. However, they must show that there was reason enough to stop her in the first place. Simply traveling across the middle line does not mean the driver of the vehicle is inebriated. Plenty of sober drivers do this on a daily basis.

If you have been charged with DUI in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, please contact the experienced DUI defense attorneys at the Umanksy Law Firm today for an initial and free case evaluation. We take cases from around the state of Florida.

A doctor from Orlando and another from Winter Park were part of a police crackdown on prescription drug dealing that saw the arrests of 172 people total. Both doctors were charged with trafficking in hydrocodone.

Officials say the arrests come after a five-month investigation that focused on dealers in Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties. In all, over 20,000 pills, including oxycodone and Xanax, and several guns were seized in the drug sweeps.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the clinics the doctors worked out of allegedly gave painkillers to hundreds of people who did not need medication.

Authorities and health officials have become concerned at the high levels of alleged prescription drug abuse in Central Florida. It is believed that six Floridians die from a prescription drug overdose every single day in Florida. In the Orange-Osceola district, 172 people died in 2008.

Florida law enforcement states that this operation is just the beginning of many to come. One reason is that some of the dealers bought their drugs from pain clinics. Some of this was local people, but some was allegedly others traveling to South Florida.

If you have been arrested and charged with dealing prescription drugs in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm. We offer a free and confidential case consultation.

Jim Greer, the former chair of the Florida GOP has been arrested and charged with six felony counts of fraud, theft, and money laundering. This is in connection to a company he allegedly created to take some of the state party's fundraising dollars for personal expenses. He was arrested by Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents Wednesday morning at his home in Oviedo. He was then booked in Seminole County jail.

According to authorities, Greer was arrested on charges of money laundering, organized scheme to defraud, and four counts of grand theft. He was forced to resign his position with the GOP in January for overspending. Since then, he has become the focus of a criminal investigation for money he earned as majority owner of Victory Strategies, LLC. Victory Strategies was a fundraising company that kept ten percent of all major donations raised for state Republicans.

In 2006, Greer was picked for the chairman position by then-Republican Governor Charlie Crist. During Greer's three-year tenure, he allegedly increased the use of American Express charge cards for national travel and other expenditures. Party leaders allegedly ousted Greer when this activity came to light.

However, after Greer resigned, details of a secret fundraising contract were brought out into the open. This contract specified Victory Strategies to take over major donor fundraising and was never greenlighted or explained to GOP finance officials.

Greer is obviously innocent until proven guilty in this matter, but there seem to be political heavyweights in the Florida GOP who want these charges to stick.

If you have been charged with grand theft or fraud in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area, or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umansky Law Firm today for a free case consultation.

Two men were arrested after breaking into a business to steal scrap metal in Ormond Beach. They are currently being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail. The two men have been charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools, and grand theft.

According to police, a witness allegedly watched as the two men loaded scrap metal from a shutdown business into their Pontiac Grand Am. The witness confronted the men who said they didn't know who the scrap metal belonged to before driving away.

When police found the two at an Ormond Beach hotel, they allegedly told police they were fishing on Saturday and saw a pile of abandoned scrap metal nearby. When they saw it the next day, they decided to take it. However, police claim they went to the abandoned business and saw that it had been broken into. They also found burglary tools in the Pontiac, which belongs to one of the two men arrested.

They are being held on $15,000 bail.

Scrap metal is a popular material to sell for quick cash. It is also a popular material to steal. Everyone could use extra money these days. Copper and scrap metal are always in demand, and are often stolen by desperate people.

If you have been charged with grand theft in the Orange County or Orlando, Florida area or anywhere else in the state of Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Umanksy Law Firm for a free and confidential consultation.