PASADENA - The Pasadena Police Department will conduct a "Zero Tolerance" DUI Saturation Patrol starting from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Wednesday. The effort is to "reduce and remove the number of impaired drivers traveling on city streets.
LA PUENTE - Two city councilmen have suspended DUI checkpoints in a move that critics say was designed to force the Sheriff's Department to hire a tow company of their choosing. In a 2-1 vote, the City Council placed a 30-day moratorium on driver's licenses and sobriety checkpoints in La Puente last week - canceling a checkpoint planned for the next day.
By Mark Zaretsky Register Staff mzaretsky@nhregister.com EAST HAVEN -- Rhode Island House of Representatives Minority Leader Robert Watson, R-East Greenwich, had glassy eyes and slurred speech and failed to perform all three field sobriety tests to sober standards when stopped at a DUI checkpoint Friday night, according to a report by police.
LA PUENTE - City and Sheriff's officials are reinstating sobriety checkpoints here after more than a year without them, despite objections from two City Councilmen who say the system targets poor people in the community. The city council last year took the controversial step of suspending DUI and driver's license checkpoints amid allegations from some council members that the checkpoint process was too inadequate and unsafe to continue.
One of the officers most likely to win any contest for arresting drunk drivers is the perfectly named Officer [Casey Hancuff]. Last year Hancuff made 353 drunk-driving arrests, according to BPD statistics. He's a longtime member of the BPD Night STEP team-STEP stands for "Selected Traffic Enforcement Program"-which is responsible for most of the city's DUI arrests. Of the 2,247 DUI arrests made by Boise Police in 2006 the Night STEP unit made 1,907. According to statistics from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, Boise's DUI related crashes dropped 20 percent in 2004. Chief Michael Masterson has said he credits that drop largely to the enforcement of the Night STEP team. They're 17, they're girls, they're barely wearing shirts," Hancuff said, almost to himself. "I'm...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- As millions of Californians are expected to hit the roads during the holiday travel season, state traffic safety officials continue to warn motorists about the very serious dangers of impaired driving. The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) today announced nearly $5 million in grant funding to 110 law enforcement agencies for DUI checkpoints. OTS is funding over 2100 sobriety checkpoints during the next year, with more than 230 to take place December 17, 2010 through January 2, 2011 as part of the Holiday DUI Enforcement Campaign, Report Drunk Drivers. Call 911. We are continuing the substantial effort to deter and arrest drunk drivers that has had such a tremendous impact on traffic safety in California," said OTS Director Chris...
Even though Charleston Councilwoman Teresa "Tricky" Reed has never been convicted of driving under the influence, she has had her license suspended for DUI for a year by the state Division of Motor Vehicles. Reed, 58, was charged with DUI again on Monday after she was involved in an accident in downtown Charleston.
State Police say a Cabell County woman was both driving under the influence and sending text messages when she crashed into the side of a building in Jefferson at nearly 100 mph. Trooper M.J. Napier was on patrol about 3 a.m. Wednesday when he was notified of a vehicle crashing into an office at 6404 MacCorkle Ave. at a high rate of speed. A pair of Kanawha County paramedics were taking a break in the parking lot of Value City Furniture on U.S. 60 when they saw a Toyota Corolla traveling at a high rate of speed leave the roadway, cross a strip of grass and an open parking area and then strike a building, Napier said. The medics said it didnt appear the woman ever applied her brakes, Napier said. The trooper found the Toyota about three car lengths inside the building and the driver, ide...
David Matthews has had plenty of experience at failing. Now, he says, he'd like to find out what it's like to succeed. If Matthews' name is familiar to you, perhaps it's because you read it in my column this past Tuesday.
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