Sambora DUI
Richie Sambora, guitarist for Bon Jovi, was pulled over on March 25, 2008 for DUI. The Laguna Beach, CA police officer stated that Sambora was driving erratically. In his black Hummer with an adult female and two children, and one of the children was his own daughter. Ten year old Ava, his and Heather Locklear’s daughter, is already going through a hard time with her parent’s divorce. The other two females have not been identified (or released).
Heather Locklear must have known who the adult female was because she gave permission to police to release Ava into her supervision. Sambora will probably get charged with child endangerment on top of all of the other charges for his DUI. This happened on a Tuesday night around 11pm. What are children doing out that late…on a school night.
This is not going to help him on the custody battle over Ava… even if it wasn’t Ava in the car. Having a recent DUI and a child endangerment on your record and facing a family court judge is not a pretty picture. Sambora may have lost any hope of having his daughter at all. I will be surprised if he gets anything more than supervised visitation.
At least the police put him in jail. They released him at 4am…after the bars closeJ. He should have had a full month of jail time, no matter what, because he purposely endangered children. I want to know who the other in the adult in the car was. Obviously, she couldn’t have been drunk if Heather Locklear was willing to let her take care of her daughter. How could she let him drive, and why did she let the kids out of the house that late at night?
I am afraid we are not going to find out more about this case until the court appearance May 7th. If he is found guilty, he will probably get more than a first offense because he has a long history of drugs and alcohol abuse.
New reports show that he may be in the clear as far as the DUI because his blood alcohol level was .08 (the legal limit); also, he is reported to be a diligent father. One time he flew home from Japan to catch his daughter’s softball game. If Heather Locklear is not happy, she is certainly able to make a case against him now.
In someone in his position, with a shaky ground with his family, he should be more careful. So let this be a lesson to all of you. Be extra careful to not be arrested for ANYTHING when you are facing a judge for something else. It may come back to bite you. How is he going to look his daughter one day and tell her “I’m sorry we can’t spend as much time together, but I had to have a drink before I got in the car.” How is that going to make her feel that her dad couldn’t control himself for her well being.
