POPULAR CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR Charged With 3 DUIs in 8 Days!

If Prof Hunker is not a celebrity to his students, who is? Prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to jail a computer science professor who was charged with drunken driving three times in eight days, because they are afraid he might harm himself or someone else.

Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeffrey Hunker, 51, of Pittsburgh, was arrested for driving under the influence three times between Aug. 17 and Sunday. In the first case, police said Hunker drove through a neighbor's yard, ran over a small tree and hit a house.

In the second, Hunker was seen at the wheel of his heavily damaged car. A police officer pulled him over and said Hunker failed a field sobriety test and a blood alcohol test. The third arrest came Sunday after someone called police to report that Hunker was suicidal. By the time an officer arrived, Hunker had driven off in a new BMW. Police tracked him down and he was arrested after admitting he had consumed a pint of vodka.

Hunker did not return messages left by The Associated Press. The Allegheny County District Attorney on Thursday filed a bond-revocation motion, which a judge will hear Friday morning, prosecutors' spokesman Mike Manko said.

Prosecutors asked the judge to jail Hunker at least until a preliminary hearing Sept. 9, because he is suicidal and a danger to the community, Manko said. The judge on Thursday added a condition to Hunker's bond that bans him from driving, so police can take him into custody if he violates it, Manko said.

Hunker was computer security director in the Clinton administration before he was hired as dean of Carnegie Mellon's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in 2001.
Hunker took personal leave as dean, and was replaced by Mark Wessel, who resigned earlier this month over questions about a master's degree awarded to a student.

Carnegie Mellon University officials have not commented on Hunker's status, citing personnel rules.

CANADA NEEDS THIS TOO: Drunken-driving fatalities drop in 32 U.S states.

Nearly 13,000 people were killed in crashes in which the driver had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08, the legal limit in the United States, or at higher levels. Overall, alcohol deaths were down nearly 4 percent compared with 2006, when nearly 13,500 people died on the highway.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said she was disappointed by the increase in deaths involving drunk motorcycle riders. A total of 1,621 motorcyclists were killed in alcohol-impaired crashes in 2007, an increase of 7.5 percent.

Motorcycle riders have been featured in the government's $13 million advertising campaign surrounding the Labor Day holiday. Law enforcement agencies are increasing their enforcement against drunken driving during the end of the summer.

Source: CNN

Rapper DMX guilty of trying to buy drugs in Miami.

Rap star DMX pleaded guilty to trying to buy cocaine and marijuana in Miami and was awaiting extradition to Arizona on outstanding drug charges there, his lawyer said on Thursday. The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, entered the plea on Wednesday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court and was sentenced to time served, said his lawyer Bradford Cohen. He was jailed two or three days after his July arrest on a charge of trying to buy illegal drugs from an undercover police officer during a street corner sting, Cohen said.

Simmons was initially released on bond on the Florida charge, but was arrested two weeks ago on the outstanding warrant from Arizona during a traffic check outside a Wal-Mart store and then denied bond. Rather than stay jailed until after a trial set for October, he pleaded guilty in the Florida case and agreed to be extradited to Arizona, where he expects to be released on bond, Cohen said.

"He got shafted on this one," said Cohen, who said the evidence in the Florida drug sting was weak and flawed.

Source: Reuters via Yahoo

'One Day at a Time' star Mackenzie Phillips in drug bust!

The former One Day at a Time star and supposedly recovering addict was busted at Los Angeles International Airport on cocaine and heroin possession Wednesday morning, according to TMZ.com. Officers responded to a call at Terminal 4 where the 48-year-old Phillips was being screened by TSA. During the screening, TSA recovered baggies and balloons believed to be filled with cocaine and heroin.

Phillips is currently in custody. The actress, who has battled drugs since her sitcom days in the seventies, is the daughter of Mamas and Papas founder and singer John Phillips and was once the step-daughter of Michelle Phillips. Phillips' One Day at a Time co-star Valerie Bertinelli also battled cocaine addiction in the early eighties but has since gone on to become a Jenny Craig spokeswoman, pen a book, and land her own sitcom to air this fall.

SNOOP PEARSON ARRESTED FOR DRUGS!!!

THE WIRE star FELICIA "Snoop" PEARSON has been arrested on drugs charges, after police discovered marijuana in a bedroom at her house. The actress, who plays Snoop in the U.S. drama, was arrested on Wednesday (20Aug08) at her home in Baltimore, Maryland. Pearson was charged after police went to her home when she refused to co-operate as a witness in a murder trial. They discovered two cigars containing suspected marijuana in a bedroom, as well as loose plant material.
Pearson is required to testify as a witness to a 2005 murder.

"Office" Actor Craig Robinson Faces Meth Charges.

Actor Craig Robinson from “The Office” and Pineapple Express is in trouble:

Prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Craig Phillip Robinson, an actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on NBC’s “The Office.” According to documents released Friday, police in Culver City arrested Robinson on June 29 on suspicion of possessing MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and methamphetamine. He was released the same day after posting bail, jail records show. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Robinson with two felony counts of drug possession and one count of being under the influence of illegal drugs.

RAPPER YUNG BERG ARRESTED IN NYC FOR WEAPONS AND DRUGS!

Rapper Yung Berg was busted early Saturday morning in New York City after police investigated a complaint by a limo driver. Sources say a limo driver reported a dispute with five passengers, and when police investigated the complaint, they busted Berg and his buddies on a pile of charges. Cops say Berg, real name Christian Ward, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of marijuana and menacing.

Yung Berg, aka Christian Ward, shot to fame with his single 'Sexy Lady,' featuring R&B singer Junior. Berg has been involved in the music business since the age of 15 when DMX was so impressed with the teenager that he signed him to his record label, Bloodline Records, he then went by the moniker Ice Berg. Berg was first featured on the Exit Wounds soundtrack. Most recently he was featured on Ray J's hit, 'Sexy Can I.'

Yung Berg’s album 'Look What You Made Me Do" will be in stores August 12th and his first single 'The Business', features his first Yung Boss signee, Casha.

Source: Urban 411