So the Bolsavik called the DA’s office today and spoke to Farrah Emami, the spokesperson. She told the Bolsavik that Andy Quach‘s maximum exposure, if convicted on all counts as well as the sentencing enhancement, is 6 months in prison plus monetary fines.
Which is pretty much the highest possible penalty for misdemeanors. One more day in jail, and it would have been a felony.
Just to summarize, Westminster Councilman Andy Quach has been charged with one count of driving under the influence, and one count of driving with blood alcohol concentration above 0.08 percent. He also faces a sentencing enhancement for driving with BAC above 0.20.
There’s a reason for an enhancement above 0.20: That’s the level that medical professionals consider to be toxic and a person’s judgment and reaction time are severely impaired, and driving at that level pretty much endangers everyone.
Quach’s level was at 0.26. (0.30 is considered life-threatening.) He clipped a car, and crashed his Mercedes-Benz S550 into a power pole and a concrete wall, plunging 300 homes into blackness as power was totally cut off and not restored until after noon the next day.
If a person been incarcerated and spend 6 months in jail, may be a little less, how in the hell can he serve the community as a council man?
Andy Quach’s political career is over.
Driving over 100MPH in the city streets (Seal Beach) and driving with boold alcohol near the life-threatening level are the utmost careless behaviors. This man is not fitted to be a community leader. But I think his reckless mentality is perfect for a frontline soldier. He should reenlist and asked to be sent to Afghanistan or Irag.
SwineQueen,
Quackman will sign up as a Communist Freedom Fighter and jump out of Ly Tong’s airplane along with the anti-commi leaflets over Vietnam.
You can’t just put the Coucilman in Jail. Who will serve the community!!!!
How many beers does it take to give him a total of 0.26? Anybody know?
SwineBBQ , Andrew Do is the one who should be sent to the nerd house for endangering public’s health with 40 plus violations in his food business.
Andy is more than likely to just attend few DMV classes for this accident. This was his first time offense….and hopefully the last one.
He will start new from this bad experience and after all Andy could even become a better community leader.
snoke, it depends on your body weight and metablism rate. Maybe from 3 cans to a 6 pack.
Everybody makes mistake. One poor judgement then you have to live with the consequences. However, is this incident make him a bad councilman to the extend that he can’t serve or lead or has to resign? His politial apponents and non-supporters, of course, like to say yes and his supporters surely argue the other way around. Two views, who’s right and who’s wrong? We are back to the political game and debate again. Let the record speak for itself. I don’t know what his record is so………..can somebody fill me in………..
“For a male weighing 140 pounds, it would take nine drinks to register a 0.26 blood alcohol level,” according to this Register story:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/quach-blood-alcohol-2519408-driving-level
I weigh more than 140 and I can’t imagine even being able to drive after 9 drinks!
Beside weight (body mass) it also depend on how many time a person drink a week? If Andy Do is a frequent drinker, say heavy drinking on week-end, with beers then go to heavy liquors, Cognac, Napoleon, Johnny Walker, to name a few…he may be more tolerable to more than 12 drinks…
Some more prone to talk sh!t after a few drinks but he would be more clear headed even when his blood alcohol goes up above 0.20…you know what i’m saying?
Anyway, knowing viet man drinking attitute (I used to be one) people would not stop after 4 drinks…
Andy Do is guilty, put him in jail and throw away the key. First time DUI or not, he is a council man, he must be judged with higher standard. Where were higher moral ground talks when he was running for the office?
snoke, Andy has been a great councilman for the city and this traffic accident will not hinder his political support from the residents.
Sure this or any type of misfortune is bad/negative for Andy but not detrimental.
sonke;
He will live with the consequence alrightty , get his ass out of the council seat and do trash picking on freeway for a month with a sign on his orange vest: “I am Andy Do, I am paying for my mistake’.
Jung Kim;
Who is there to judge if he is a great council man or not? I don’t think the plead like that will stand in the court of law.
Bo May, drinking and driving happens in our viet town every night and this was his first offense…… I am giving him the break for this first mishap.
Andrew Do, however, needs to be punished……. a over 40 health violations in one food business site?
Foood poisoning is least of my worry but he can potentially spread deadly germs every single day while his store is still open. Shut it down and put Andrew Do in the can house.
Bo May…the people do. Ask Wesrminster residents ..they love/respect Andy Quach.
Bo May, can you drag Andrew Do out from his hole and send him to a mandatory cleaning school sponsored by the food industry? He can wear a cap that reads ” filthy germ man”
I would send him to the sanitary sewer treatment plan.
Jung Kin;
How can he be an effective council man serving public from his cell?
I say he would be a more effective council man serving public by picking up trash along freeway.
Andy Quach should get himself the best DUI attorney in town.
Bo, again, Andrew Do might go to the can house eventually but not Andy.
Why didn’t any of his Trannie friends, that gathered with before the crash, drive him home instead of letting him drive? They should be to blame too.
yeah good question Lee Says. The OC registers mention that Van Tran came out to the sense right? So why did they let him drive again instead of taking him home or have somebody drive him home?
Should AQ deserve the punishment? yes because he made a bad choice driving under the influence. Should he set an example as a councilman, yes he should but he’s also human being. Simple one mistake to make him step down then unless we are spotless ourselves. Does this effect his leadership ability, somehowe becase he’s a figure head, a pubic figure. However, as long as he learn from his lesson and pay for his mistake and face the consequense, should he deserve that 2nd chance? Should the people crucify somebody who is remorsed from their own action? If the community still trust him and he’s a good councilman who work hard for his district, who will suffer if he is force to step down?
Jung Kim;
Gotcha!
Andy Quack got to go to the can.
Andy Do with food violation got to to clean up the public rest room in the park.
The punishment fit the crime.
sonke’
“…Should the people crucify somebody who is remorsed from their own action? If the community still trust him and he’s a good councilman who work hard for his district, who will suffer if he is force to step down?”
Of course, we will consider his remorseful word but again, if I did it I would be more remorseful than Andy Quach is right now, does it mean I should get a lesser sentence? Nope! May be even more, ’cause I can’t afford an expensive Hollywood lawyer. Mr. Quack on another hand may get a very expensive parasite of the earth called Hollywood lawyer but I wish the good judge will throw him the book and send him to the can…or make him clean up the trash in public places where everyone can see, say on Bolsa Street?
Bo May,
No doubt, AQ should get the same punishment as if you and I violated. If he get anything less than the ordinary citizen do then it’s not a fair game anymore, especially when he said he is willing to face and ready to face the consequences. So you think because he’s a councilman and he has good money for a good lawyer they will cut him some slack?
Andy Quack, I can get you million$.
Fire your buddy Van Tran.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/quach-hall-tran-2520596-police-car
Have you heard the news????? There was lots of disruption that nite !
Ah! What the cost of freedom to come here to have a bunch of stinko viet politicians?
I do not trust politician of any colors to start with, and a viet politician at that? A viet council man and a viet state assembly gang up to think they can cover their own asses?
Double Whammy, Quadruple Whammy!
Anytime a piece of crap float up from the bottom of a sewer puddle he thinks he is now smelling like a rose and above the law.
Bo May,
Is your favorite food taco and burrito? Have some Lou and Loretta then. Ha ha ha!!
Some of you don’t get it. When your blood alcohol level is .26, that means that 26% of what’s in your veins is alcohol. A level of .35 can be fatal!
sh.t cleaner;
Looove Mexican food! What the heck is Lou and Loretta? A Mexican food joint?
Do not like buffet food of any ethnic colors…uh uh, no sirey bob…it is terrible cuisine, cooked in big bulk for profit and it always gave me the bad tummy-ache and a run, AQ probably tried to get home fast to take a dump in the can, he ended up took the pole…and may take the time in the can later in the county jail, I hope he did not wet his pant, poor police man he may think it the alcohol but it is what coming out of AQ’s bottom was worst.
Why would anyone love and respect a guy who gets behind the wheel with a .26 BA level? Quach clearly does not care about his constituents. He should have been charged with a felony!
If the Westminster residents still support him then they are idiots.
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/van-trans-congressional-campaign-is-done/
Mr Pedroza,
I’m sure you’re elated with the news , I am shamed to see a Viet made the news as this case of Mr Andy Quach , as with Mr Tran to show up at the scene of the accident , I don’t see anythign wrong with that , perhaps he was a bit too concern about Mr Quach well being and somehow ” interfering ” a bit with the police procedure ?
To make a statement such as ” If Westminster residents still support him then they are idiots ” show me that you don’t have enough to be a ” journalist ” at any caliber and to read ” good job , GGPD ” on the commnet section of your blog to tell me your reader are as stupid as the blogging that they read
Is there a remote possibility that AQ maybe taking the fall for the driver of the vehicle? Past records show Andus to be a fast driver but not reckless. Speeders usually drive fast; drunkards drive drunk. Is there more than what meets the eyes?
@Mr. Spec..
Who can that person be? VT put too much stock into Andy to replace him at Assembly. Besides, witnesses saw Andy behind the wheel, dazed after being hit by deployed airbag, right after the accident.
Thank you ocpolactivist!
Send this A**hole to 1 yr hard labor.
Art the cholo face, you idiots shoot people in the broad day light, share drugs with little family members…and you want Andy to go to jail for a auto accident? Where do we need to send you stinky food wasters?
hey art quit blogwhoring on here. stay in your natural habitat where you are king of cencorship.
So What:
Send him to pick up trash on Bolsa Street where all viet can see him.
Bo, you can also do that without an auto accident. Will we see you next week cleaning up our town streets?
Kim;
Thanks but no thanks. I will come to hand you a bottle of water when needed.
I would like to offer a correction and clarification to this story. As stated above, Mr. Quach’s maximum sentence for this misdemeanor is six months in jail if convicted.
The statement that, “one more day in jail, and it would have been a felony,” however, is not correct. Misdemeanor charges can carry a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail.
I hope this clarification helps.
Thank you,
Farrah Emami
Spokesperson
Orange County District Attorney’s Office
ALL THAT DAMAGE AND THE MOST THAT THIS GUY WILL GET IS 6 MONTHS IN JAIL? I SAY, LET THE CONSTITUENTS IN HIS CITY DECIDE. ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT Were EFFECTED BY THE ACCIDENT.
J-Dung Kim, again you prove you are the most ignorant blogger on the net. Why do’nt we make A Quach just stand in the corner for an hour. Then he can go beck to collecting all that “under the table” cashola that is required for an otherwise bum to be riding that Benz. Quit too J-Dung with your flagrant racism…it just makes you look more ignoranT. Hey, I saw a rat crawling into a hole…looks like J-Dung Kim.
lottapoop, and we saw flies gathering around your rear… ha ha ha!
lottapoop, if you can’t take the truth, go seat on your toilet!
One auto accident and you idiots act like the end of the world!
What a leech licking low class poopies with a leaking diaper.
J-Dung there were 2 auto accidents. First when he clipped the other car. (what no hit and run charges) Second accident when he hit the pole. Be there tonight at Westminster city council meeting. Free entertainment. Maybe Van Tran will be there for Andy again…….Andy will probably be ditchedby these fair weather Trannies…once they realize associating with him is political death.
lottapoop, are you pooping again with your imagenary friend?
You need to be there with CNN and Pres. Obama…… we are going to pray for a dead pole!
Why don’t you go spend some fun time with playboy Andrew Do after the city meeting …… in the bathroom?
lottapoop, soon or later you are going to end up on the street…. people think you are a nut case!
Has funeral date has been set for this dead pole?
Anyone sending flowers?