LAPD Anti-DUI Push Nets 286 Arrests

by City News Service

The Los Angeles Police Department's July 4 weekend anti-DUI push will continue Saturday night and Sunday with sobriety and driver's license checkpoints and beefed up patrols in various parts of the city.

Checkpoints will be set up from 6 p.m. until midnight at Figueroa Street and Vernon Avenue in South Los Angeles and from 8 p.m. tonight until 2 a.m. on Sunday at Florence Avenue and Broadway in South L.A., Lankershim Boulevard and Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood and at Fountain and Bates avenues in northeast Los Angeles, according to a police statement.

Also, a sobriety checkpoint will be in operation from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m. at Vernon Avenue and Hoover Street.

The Los Angeles Police Department is also a part of the county's "Avoid the 100" DUI deployment campaign netted 286 DUI arrests between 12:01 a.m. on Thursday and midnight on Friday. The arrest numbers were only provisional, with some police agencies having to report, according to the department statement.

In 2012, during the same reporting period, there were 233 arrests, according to the statement. DUI arrest data collection will continue through midnight Sunday.

So-called DUI saturation patrols will take place from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday in the Harbor Station's patrol area and in the Devonshire Station's patrol area from 5 p.m. Sunday to 1 a.m. Monday.

The checkpoints and saturation patrols are funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.