According to reports, the bill that was introduced by Delegate Sal Iaquinto (R) of Virginia Beach would require all those convicted of driving while intoxicated to have the device installed. While the measure has support, it has also drawn some strong opposition.

Some worry that such a measure lumps all types of offenders together when they really shouldn’t be. So a first-time offender would be treated as a multiple offender or an offender with at least twich the legal blood alcohol limit, just as a precaution.

A Senate committee is considering similar, but slightly amended legislation.

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Forty-three-year-old Mary Catherine Lewis pleaded guilty to theft of a government property. According to reports, Lewis stole at least $120,000 from the Midshipman Store between 2005 and 2010 while her husband was a chief petty officer at the Naval Academy.

Lewis apparently made fraudulent returns to steal money and would credit accounts for her, her husband and her children with the money.

A news article on abc2news.com said an audit showed Lewis credited family accounts with $85,000 and also pocketed between $40,000 and $165,000 in cash refunds during that period.

She is facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. She is also paying $125,000 in restitution.

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Carlos Martinelly-Montano, 24, was drunk and in the country illegally when he slammed his vehicle into one carrying three nuns. Martinelly-Montano killed Sister Denise Mosier, 66, and injured two other nuns. He crossed the center line and crashed head-on into the nuns’ car.

The accident was Montano’s third drunken driving offense and he was awaiting a deportation hearing when the crash occurred. Montano was from Bolivia.

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In the unanimous decision, the justices said people in the United States should expect “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches.”

This was one of the first major cases testing the right to privacy in the digital era, where the lines have often become blurred. Even though there was unity in the ruling, the justices were split 5-4 over the reasoning.

While the minority said that installing the GPS device trespassed on private property along with violating the suspect’s reasonable expectation of privacy, the majority said just attaching the GPS device invaded the suspect’s private property in the same way a house search would have and should not be allowed.

The case stems from a 2005 drug operation that uncovered almost 100 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million when officials conducted a raid in a Maryland house.

A federal appeals court had overturned the conviction of Antoine Jones in that case because authorities had tracked Jones for four weeks prior to the raid by GPS.

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Horace Dexter McDade, 58, and John Vincent Haile, 54, are accused of stealing bags of coins since at least 2010. McDade was a revenue technician and serviced the Metro fare machines and Haile served as a cop for Metro.

According to the criminal complaint, the men would hide a bag of coins nearby one of the Metro stations and return after their shift to retrieve them.

Haile allegedly bought at least $28,000 worth of lottery tickets with the money and won at least 29 times in 2011.

Officials apparently tracked the two with surveillance and GPS devices. It is unclear exactly how long this occurred and how much money the two allegedly stole.

If convicted, each man may face up to five years in prison.

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According to officials, Ramiro Espinoza-Jamaica was arrested last week on charges he abused and prostituted teen girls out of his apartment. He allegedly found middle school girls with problems at home and offered them a place to stay in exchange for sex. He is one of at least a half-dozen Northern Virginia gang members accused of running prostitution rings over the past year.

A 14-year-old runaway teen who was allegedly prostituted last spring told police that Espinoza-Jamaica forced her to work as a prostitute, providing her with alcohol before her sexual encounters.

He was arrested last May on drug charges and was sentenced in December to serve three months for possession of marijuana.

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According to reports, Anisur Rahman, 41, of Point of Rocks, left his 4-year-old and 5-month-old inside a car for about 20 minutes. Temperatures were about 24 degrees, with wind chills making it feel like 11 degrees.

A Wal-Mart employee saw the children in the vehicle and called 911. The employee stayed with the children until officials arrived.

Officials said the children were unharmed and were released to their mother. If convicted, Rahman will face a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail.

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Jose F. Martinez was convicted of killing the two men when he caused a crashed as he drove the wrong-way while he was drunk in March. Martinez had a blood-alcohol content of between 0.12 and 0.19 at the time of the crash, where he drove a GMC Yukon the wrong way through a toll plaza on Powhite Parkway, striking a BMW and killing 32-year-old Sammer W. Ballout and 29-year-old Imad H. Elawar.

Martinez was 17 at the time of the crash, which occurred in the early morning hours of March 19.

He was convicted in October and sentenced in December, but the judge allowed the prosecutors and defense attorneys time to review the sentence, allowing Martinez to split where he served his time. He will serve time in the juvenile detention center until he turns 21, when he will be transferred to a prison, where he can finish his sentence.

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A recent article in the Virginia Lawyers Weekly discussed how current laws in Virginia do not even require a driver to have insurance. Owners may opt to pay a $500 uninsured motor vehicle fee to the Department of Motor Vehicles. If they fail to do both, then they may face a $500 fine.

It points out that drivers, along with officers are often misinformed about the law. A lawyer who was charged for not carrying an insurance card is fighting the charge in Sussex County and is awaiting a judge’s ruling on the outcome.

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Ross was required to register as a sex offender for 10 years after being convicted in 1999 of having sex with a 15-year-old student at H.D. Woodson High School, where he had served as a teacher, attendance counselor and assistant coach.

Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as well as D.C. law, he was required to register as a sex offender in Washington D.C. as well as to report if he changed residence or employment.

Ross apparently moved in the first half of 2009, but did not report his change of residence. Authorities said he also used a fake date of birth and Social Security number to allude authorities.

U.S. Marshalls arrested Ross in October. He is the first person to be indicted and convicted in D.C. under the act.

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