Wayne Huizenga's son pleads not guilty to boating drunk

Former Miami Dolphins owner and billionaire businessman H. Wayne Huizenga's son pleaded not guilty Thursday to a boating under the influence charge.

Robert Ray Huizenga, 47, is on probation for a 2003 DUI charge for an accident that seriously injured a 71-year-old pedestrian. As a condition of his probation, a judge had prohibited Huizenga from drinking alcohol.

Thursday, Huizenga denied that he had violated his probation.

Dunlap pleads no contest to DUI, gets probation

Former Florida defensive end Carlos Dunlap has pleaded no contest to driving under the influence.

Dunlap appeared at a court hearing on Friday in Gainesville. He was placed on probation for a year and had his drivers license suspended for six months. He also must complete 50 hours of community service, participate in a victim's impact panel and pay about $1,000 in fines.

Dunlap was arrested Dec. 1 after police found him passed out behind the wheel at an intersection days before the Southeastern Conference championship game. The 6-foot-6, 290-pound junior from North Charleston, S.C., was suspended then reinstated three weeks later.

Miami-Dade County's costly `nuisance laws' could get the ax

Miami house painter Alexis Marichal was driving his work truck when police pulled him over, placed him under arrest and sent him to jail for a night.

His crime: not having a business sign on the side of the vehicle.

In court later, the judge dismissed the charge after Marichal proved he had purchased the sign and was a legitimate painter.

Disgraced doctor pleads not guilty to DUI manslaughter

A disgraced Coral Springs psychologist with an extensive history of substance abuse has pleaded not guilty to DUI manslaughter and other criminal charges in a crash that killed a retiree last year.

Paul Inkeles, 56, had cocaine, oxycodone, morphine and five other drugs in his system on March 26 when his Infiniti sedan plowed into a Mercedes-Benz convertible driven by Steven Mait, according to court records. Tests conducted by Coral Springs police indicated Inkeles was driving at least 22 mph over the 35 mph speed limit on Lakeview Drive.

At the time of the crash, Inkeles was out on bond awaiting trial on cocaine and heroin-possession charges. His license to practice psychology already had been suspended indefinitely after he was accused of overdosing on cocaine and heroin while his school-age children were visiting him, state records show.

Innocent caught in web of cops' overtime abuse

There's a human toll to the abuse: In some cases, innocent people get arrested and guilty people go free. By any standard, Gustavo Suarez was not drunk the night that police stopped him in Miami Beach. Suarez's breath-alcohol level tested far below the legal limit, his driving was not erratic, his urine showed no evidence of drugs. But police arrested him for drunk driving anyway. Seven cops claimed to be witnesses. They were Collars for Dollars cops: police officers who pile on to cases, earning overtime money they don't deserve by making unnecessary court appearances. An eight-month Herald investigation documented Collars for Dollars abuse among hundreds of officers in thousands of cases, costing Dade taxpayers millions of dollars. There's more at stake than wasted money. In some cases, The Herald found, the zeal to make DUI arrests can put innocent people behind bars and allow guilty people to go free. "I have no doubt that a signifi cant number of drivers are arrested in Dade County simply because