Two St. Petersburg Times staffers arrested for DUI

JULY 28, 2009

We've already had these stories up elsewhere on the Web site. But I felt it was important to also note in this blog space that the St. Petersburg Times had two staffers arrested on drunk driving charges on Monday night.

Tampa Publisher Joe DeLuca, 50, was stopped at W Gandy Boulevard and S West Shore Boulevard around 11:15 p.m., according to a jail record quoted in our story. DeLuca has said he disputes the field test assessment.

A Times community sports editor, Michael Camunas, 26, was stopped on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and given
a breath test that showed his blood-alcohol content at 0.19, according
to an arrest report, according to a separate story on that incident.

The trade publication Editor and Publisher also noted the arrests today, observing that the newspaper's history of publishing stories on staffer's DUI arrests reaches back more than 30 years to the time when former editor Eugene Patterson demanded his DUI arrest be featured on Page One.

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