By City News Service
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Police Department's July 4 weekend anti-DUI push will continue tonight 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. to midnight at Figueroa Street and Vernon Avenue in South Los Angeles and from 8 p.m. tonight to 2 a.m. 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.
In addition, 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.
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