By Adam Sege
Tribune reporter
1:53 a.m. CST, January 5, 2014

An investigative reporter for CBS 2 Chicago was charged with driving under the influence and endangering the lives of children after a minor accident outside a Naperville fast food restaurant early Saturday, police said.

Dave Savini, whose age was not released, was arrested shortly after 1:30 a.m. Saturday after fleeing the scene of the accident, Naperville Police Department Cmdr. Jason Arres said.

Police were alerted about 12:20 a.m. to an incident involving Savini and another driver in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in the 1200 block of Rickert Drive, Arres said.

Following a minor accident, the other driver attempted to photograph Savini's license plate, Arres said. Police believe Savini pushed the other driver and fled the scene in a vehicle with two children under 18 inside.

Police did not comment on whether the children were related to Savini.

Officers stopped Savini's vehicle near the intersection of Saratoga and Plainfield-Naperville roads, about 3.5 miles from the Taco Bell. He was charged with two counts of DUI, two counts of endangering the health or life a child, one count of battery and one count of leaving the scene of an accident with vehicle damage.

All of the charges are misdemeanors, and Savini was released on bond shortly after being taken into custody.

Efforts to reach Savini, who has been with CBS since 2004, were unsuccessful.

Tribune reporter Jonathan Bullington contributed.

asege@tribune.com
Twitter: @AdamSege

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Isn't that the guy whose claim to fame was bringing a blacklight into hotels and discovering jizz on all the bedspreads? It think it was called "Hotel Horror".

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I was thinking the same thing before reading your post. I think it is. Lets see how he likes investigators digging into his life.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Pam Zekman would never do this.

Awesome.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

There used to be a poster here that had Savini as his avatar.

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http://www.robertfeder.com/2014/01/13/c ... on-savini/

An angry Rob Feder wrote:



It’s been more than a week since longtime Chicago investigative reporter Dave Savini was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, battery, child endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident in west suburban Naperville.

But CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, where Savini, 47, has been a prominent figure since 2004, hasn’t said a word about it on any of its newscasts or on its website. Nor has the station issued any statement since court documents showed Savini’s blood-alcohol level registered 0.134 after he failed field tests and admitting consuming alcohol in the early hours of Jan 4.

Marty Wilke
Over the weekend I reached out to Marty Wilke, president and general manager of CBS 2, to ask her to comment on the matter and to clarify Savini’s employment status while he awaits a Jan. 21 court date. I told her I believed the matter was serious enough to deserve a response from her personally. I’d always admired Wilke’s openness when she was general manager of Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 before she joined CBS 2 in 2012 and totally clammed up.

I never heard back from her.

Instead I received the following email message from a spokeswoman for CBS 2: “At this time, we have declined all requests for comment and are referring all press inquiries to Dave’s attorney.” (Never mind that when the Chicago Tribune called Savini’s attorney, Terry Ekl, he refused to comment.)

It strikes me as the height of hypocrisy for a station that demands answers from everyone else not to respond to legitimate inquiries about one of its own employees.

Remember that the next time you see Savini, in all his self-righteous arrogance, chasing after some unwitting target who doesn’t want to talk to him. Or the next time CBS 2 makes a big deal about a minor celebrity who gets in trouble.

“Original Reporting” my ass.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

That really is such a funny thing. I think about this most of the time regarding the score. They take so much joy judging everyone in sports for DUI or other silly minor things. Can you imagine the silence if an on aire Score person got pinched after that one too many glasses of wine?

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Elections have consequences.

the score is cbs now. dave savini is cbs. wbbm is a sister station, they both fuck the same boss at some point in the chain. and even if you dont consider the dui, because who knows maybe it was a bullshit dui, he also got battery, child endangerment and leaving the scene of accident which ALL are fucking terrible. the guy is obviously a loser.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

"i've had a couple cocktails"

or solicitation

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This guy is a hero. Before him, I thought all hotels were pristine and no one had ever had sexual relations on any of the beds

Rehab stint coming soon

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”