BREAKING: Paul Pelosi CHARGED with hit and run after crash in California
Pelosi was previously convicted of a DUI in 2022.
Paul Pelosi has been slapped with a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge by the Napa County District Attorney’s office after a July 3 crash in Yountville, CA. Pelosi, 86, is the husband of outgoing Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who is leaving the US House this year after a long tenure.
Pelosi is set to make a court appearance in connection with the misdemeanor charge on August 14. He is alleged to have struck a parked, unoccupied Tesla and then fleeing the scene. Pelosi, states the DA’s office, “is charged with violating California Vehicle Code section 20002 (CVC 20002), a misdemeanor charge which requires drivers involved in collisions resulting in property damage to stop and provide the information required by law. He is additionally charged with the infraction of making an unlawful turn.”
“The Napa County District Attorney’s Office does not typically issue press releases regarding misdemeanor hit-and-run cases involving only property damage. However, this release is being issued because of the significant public and media interest surrounding this case,” said the office in their statement.
Pelosi was charged with a DUI in August 2022 and pleaded guilty at the time. The Napa County DA’s office answered the question of why they were not currently charging Pelosi with a DUI after this latest infraction. They stated that “The District Attorney’s Office has an ethical obligation to file only those charges that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt based on the available evidence. No evidence
indicating that the defendant was driving under the influence was presented to our office. Accordingly, there is no evidentiary basis to file or prove a DUI charge in court.”
In 2022, he was convicted “based upon an automobile collision and driving under the influence arrest on May 28th, 2022.” He was not made to appear in the courtroom at that time, instead filing plea forms. He “pled guilty to Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Causing Injury. Based upon the plea, Judge Solga dismissed the second charge of Driving With .08% Blood Alcohol Level or Higher Causing Injury in the interests of justice.”
As a result of the infraction, Pelosi was sentenced to summary probation for three years, a term he has only just completed. He was made to pay a fine of less than $2,000, made to serve 5 days in jail, and made to “submit to a blood, breath, or urine test if requested by any law enforcement officer or probation officer if suspected of driving with a measurable amount of alcohol.”
Additionally, he had to pay the victim about $5,000 in restitution for medical bills and lost wages, had to complete a DUI program for three months, and could not operate a car that did not have a “certified ignition device” for the period of one year.
Pelosi has been grappling with car crashes for much of his life and killed his brother in a car wreck when he was just 16 and his brother David was 19. In 1957, he lost control of the vehicle he was driving, his brother in the passenger seat, and flipped into an embankment. The two were on a joyride after Pelosi had picked up his elder brother from his girlfriend’s house.
“David John Pelosi, 19 … was trapped under the light car driven by his brother when it flipped over on Skyline Highway a mile north of Crystal Springs,” read a newspaper report on the crash. It went on to say that “David warned young Paul, as the car neared a tight curve near the dam: ‘This is a bad stretch–better slow down.'”