No bail for DUI suspect

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County judge denied bail Friday for a man accused in a series of deadly drunk driving crashes.

Police say 39-year-old Randy Archiquette hit utility poles, several cars, and was seen crossing double yellow lines in Tampa on Monday afternoon.

Archiquette eventually flipped his car on Comanche Avenue, near Florida Avenue in the Seminole Heights area -- but not before hitting and killing 69-year-old Betty Williams, and 20-year-old Britany McFarland.

The two women were in two separate cars that were hit by Archiquette, prosecutors said.

Several of Williams’ family members were at Friday's hearing, where that they found out Archiquette was driving 70 miles per hour through the residential area where Williams and McFarland were killed.

McFarland’s parents could not bring themselves to be at the hearing, but they did send their lawyer with a prepared statement.

“We can’t seem to get this right”, said attorney Danny Fernandez, reading from the statement.  “We cannot drink and drive. You drink and drive, you put innocent people in peril, and it needs to stop.”

Archiquette’s public defender put forth his 12 years of military service and his local family ties, but Judge Walter Heinrich wasn’t buying it.

“There is substantial probability that you committed the offense”, Heinrich told him. “I have no other way to guarantee the safety of the community”.