LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Every day in Kentucky, on average, about 100 people get charged with drunken driving. One-third of them are for second, third or fourth time DUI.

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It happened again July 2, 2007 -- but this time, drunk driving nearly wiped out a family

Police said Kerrick Jenkins drove an SUV into a house. They said his license was already suspended for previous DUI offenses and that he had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit.

Police said he even punched and spit on the EMS crew at the scene.

"A drunk driver almost took out my whole family, that's what makes me mad," said Melissa Rennirt.

The homeowners posted a message, painting the phrase "Don't drink and drive" on the side of their house.

"I figured putting this on here would be a message to people what drinking and driving can do," Rennirt said.

But did the driver get the message?

In court, Jenkins gave NewsChannel 32's camera the finger for 10 straight minutes in a clear message for us.

"It is going to be in your best interest not to do any driving, not to do any drinking, not to do anything that would draw any attention to yourself in any of these matters between now and your sentencing, you understand that?" the judge asked him.

But back at Jenkins' trailer, our cameras found plenty of drinking still going on, with cases of beer brought in almost daily.

Jenkins often walks around with a beer in his hand, even out in the street. We recorded Jenkins and others getting in and out of vehicles with open beers in their hands.

There's even a no-contact order in place against Jenkins after the people whose house into which he plowed said Jenkins drove by and launched a beer bottle into their yard.

Jenkins' arrest history report -- just in Louisville – shows pages of arrests for drunken driving and driving on a DUI-suspended license.

We counted at least 12 different DUI case numbers over the past 20 years. Yet when we asked the county attorney's office how this could be, they said they only had records for the last three DUIs, two convictions and the most recent pending case.

"I have no idea why there are that many charges that don't appear in other resources we go to to find prior offenses," said Assistant County Attorney Ben Wyman.

He suspects it may have something to do with the November 2006 destruction of millions of pages of court records on microfilm and microfiche by the administrative office of the courts.

"There have been DUI cases which disappeared, which don't show up on records anymore, when we go to look for them, and that's the only explanation I have for why this would occur," Wyman said.

Because Jenkins hit a house and nearly killed people, it appears he is going to go to prison this time. We tried to ask Jenkins to explain how he continually manages to defy the system.

He declined.