Driver Accused In PB Hit-And-Run Pleads Not Guilty
Posted: 02/02/2010
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A motorist who drove his SUV into a parked car, then pulled onto a sidewalk and pinned three people against a wall, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to DUI and hit-and-run charges.Jon Arly Winchester, 26, was ordered held on $103,600 bail.Deputy District Attorney David Uyar told Judge Francis Devaney that Winchester drove his SUV into the back of a car around 2 a.m. Friday, backed up, then pulled onto the sidewalk in the 1800 block of Garnet Avenue and struck the victims, who were standing outside the Silver Fox Lounge.One of the three suffered a broken right leg, the prosecutor said.Uyar said the defendant sped away, but someone jotted down a partial license plate number and he was apprehended at his home in Clairemont.Winchester -- whose blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.13 percent after his arrest -- was on probation for two undisclosed misdemeanor convictions, the prosecutor said.Winchester is charged with DUI causing injury, DUI with a blood-alcohol level of .08 percent or higher, three counts of hit-and-run with injury and one misdemeanor count of driving with a revoked license.The judge set a status conference for Feb. 9; a readiness conference for Feb. 22; and a preliminary hearing for March 1.