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Lancaster checkpoint nets 2 DUI arrests

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LANCASTER – Deputies from Lancaster Sheriff’s Station conducted a Sobriety and Driver’s License Checkpoint between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday.

The checkpoint location was eastbound Avenue K at Elm Avenue.

The results of the checkpoint are as follows:

  • 1,230 vehicles were driven through the checkpoint.
  • 85 drivers were waived through because of traffic congestion.
  • 1,145 drivers were screened while in their vehicles.
  • 20 citations/arrests for suspended, revoked, or no driver’s license.
  • 18 citations issued for miscellaneous traffic violations in and around the checkpoint.
  • Nine drivers were required to perform field sobriety tests.
  • Two were arrested for DUI (alcohol)
  • Two were arrested for allowing an unlicensed driver to drive.
  • Three were arrested for misdemeanor warrants.
  • 13 vehicles were stored or impounded.

Funding for the checkpoint was provided to Lancaster Station by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

There was also a DUI Checkpoint in Palmdale during the same time period. View results from the Palmdale DUI Checkpoint here.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

3 comments for "Lancaster checkpoint nets 2 DUI arrests"

  1. Only 2 DUI’s What a waste of time. If the checkpoint was done right by the door of any Lancaster bar then there should be no shortage of drunkheads!

    • Thank you! I agree! We pay the law officials enough to seek these folks out all over the AV from the comfort of their own radio cruiser! Instead, law makers think it’s a better idea to inconvenience some 1200 law-abiding citizens of what used to be a free country. (These generations don’t understand why things happened the way they did in 1945) This way they can justify payin all these folks waaaaay more than they already earned. Jewelry for the lil lady, a swimming pool, a new rig, etc. All these things are given to these folks as a “gift” from our law makers in the guise of a “grant” to halt drunk/buzzed driving.

      This just in: It’s a lost cause!! Just like doobage, it’ll never be stopped because of “law enforcement”, or “grants”, or medical dicovery, or death.