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24 arrested at Lancaster checkpoint

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LANCASTER – Two dozen people were arrested for various offenses, including identity theft, driving on a suspended license and driving without an Ignition Interlock Device at a DUI/ driver’s license checkpoint conducted in Lancaster Friday night and early Saturday morning, authorities said.

The checkpoint was conducted at Avenue J and 25th Street East from 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, to 2 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, according to Detective Michael Politano of the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

According to Politano, the results of the checkpoint are as follows:

  • 627 vehicles traveled through the checkpoint.
  • 627 drivers were checked at the checkpoint.
  • Nine field sobriety tests were administered; no one was determined to be under the influence.
  • 10 unlicensed drivers were arrested and sent to court.
  • 11 drivers were arrested and sent to court for driving on a suspended license.
  • One driver was arrested and sent to court for driving a vehicle without an Ignition Interlock Device (IID).
  • Nine vehicles were impounded for 30 days.
  • One vehicle was stored.
  • 11 vehicles were released per checkpoint release procedures.
  • One suspect was arrested for a warrant.
  • One suspect was arrested and booked for identity theft and possession of a fake ID.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting additional DUI/driver’s license checkpoints and DUI Saturation Patrols throughout the year as part of its ongoing commitment to lowering deaths and injuries upon streets and highways.

Funding for these operations is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster

34 comments for "24 arrested at Lancaster checkpoint"

  2. Lancaster should lead the nation in DUI arrests with all the boozing we do in this town. Booze at the fair, booze at the go cart races, booze on the BLVD, booze at the ballpark, booze events, booze, booze, booze.

    • Well, wouldn’t you drink if you lived in Lancaster in order to forget you live in Lancaster? In the old days, they gave a guy some whiskey before they amputated a limb. Same reasoning. Anesthesia.

      Like George Bush, Lancaster’s mayor is a dry drunk. We can hardly tell the difference with both of them if they are still ‘sippin’.

        • Says the ignorant one, wb.

          So, are the republicans responsible for the current decline in the stock market and oil prices, smartypants?

          You said that the Democrats in Congress were responsible for the crash of 2008 after only being the majority for 18 months.

          Keep ’em comin’, wb. You prove your ignorance with every comment/reply.

          Both rex and w were/are alcoholics. They have that and their stupidity in common as do you. The ‘3 amigos’ y’all are.

    • All this booze and no one was arrested for DUI at the checkpoint. Lancaster has smart drunks and stupid unlicensed sober drivers.

      • If they put the DUI near BeX on the weekend, they’d have dozens of arrests. Parris would never allow such bad publicity.

    • Actually, Lancaster is a tiny little bedroom community that doesn’t have half the drinking establishments as many other communities. You need to get out more.

      • LOL…when I left Lancaster I considered it a “small town” since there was literally nothing to do there. But it had 30,000 people, and when I got out in the world I found out that (at the time) not very many people thought 30,000 people was a small town by any stretch of their imagination.

        When you say that “Lancaster is tiny” and “you need to get out more” in the same post it clearly shows that you need to take your own advise. With a current population around 200,000 Lancaster is bigger than the capital city in more than half of the states.

          • One bigger city doesn’t make all others “tiny.” Get some perspective and temper your absolutism.

            The “tiny” AV has more population than the entire state of Nevada if you take out Las Vegas metro.

            That said, what is the population of this “big city close to the ocean”? Considering that there are only half a dozen or so cities in California with greater population than the combined AV population I’m really curious about where you live.

          • Dubai? Not even a quarter the population of NYC! What a tiny little burg! It’s barely a wide spot in the road!

            See how silly it can be when you don’t keep things in perspective? Having lived in Lancaster when it was a fifth the size it is now I just can’t see calling it “tiny.”

          • I never posted Dubai. That was some smart azz using my screen name. I wouldn’t move from one desert rathole to another. And yes, AV is still a tiny little spread out low density SMALL TOWN.

          • Spread out low density is certainly accurate enough. That pretty much applies to every city in the SW US desert though, and even to a great extent in the midwest, so it’s hardly a unique condemnation. Lack of any physical restraint on horizontal expansion has the results that it has, every time.

            You should thank whoever posted Dubai though, because at least it made sense. I’m guessing your taking a pass on providing an answer is because you don’t have one that would. Like maybe you did a little research and figured out your “big city” isn’t quite what you thought it was as compared to “tiny” li’l Lancaster, perhaps?

      • Lancaster has plenty of places that serve booze like the Trap, Rubens, Britisher, Bex, Snooky’s, Longhorn. They all suck. That’s why they sell so much booze at all the booze events on the BLVD and at the fair and at the ball park.

  3. There isn’t one redeemable quality to life in the Antelope Valley. You can live your entire life without a single problem, move the AV, and end up in jail. Please fall off the earth Antelope Valley, you sorry MF’er. And, to whom it may concern, I live by the beach.

    • Which beach?

      Why do people who have left the AV keep their new location top secret?

      They are anonymous yet reluctant to reveal their newfound paradise.

      Well, where did you move to, Pebble Beach, Malibu, Bora Bora?

      Don’t worry. We can’t find you.

  4. This is such b.s. so you happen to go to a friends house just before the check point and get pulled over. just the city looking to make money. I thought its a sobriety checkpoint. Half the cops wouldn’t know a sober person from a high one…

    • Half these pigs drink and drive more than Cleetus the town drunk. They just got that Tin Shield to hide behind.

  6. Just wait until Trump is POTUS. These checkpoints will be for illegal aliens and they will have a bus on site for deportation immediately.

    • Keep on dreaming body, this clown will never make it to POTUS, he is already a PUTO but POTUS I dont think so.

    • TRUMP IS A SCUMBAG THAT DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF HARD WORKING AMERICANS, HE WILL NEVER WIN HE ONLY HAS 25% OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORTING HIM HOW THE HELL IS HE GONNA WIN KEEP DREAMING BUDDY

    • Trump will NOT become POTUS Mexicans & Latinos are half of the United States populations . When the voting day comes the polls will show humiliating numbers for trump . So please shut up &’ save your irrelevant comment .

      • Trump will destroy the republican party in the process. If he’s not their nominee, his supporters will likely stay home rather than vote for any of the others that Trump has trashed quite well.

        • People wake up and smell the sh– Donald don’t give a crap about you your neighbor or anyone else he has a plan for himself and his siblings he wants to make a law that will save him million’s on taxes you really think he is the perfect guy who cares about people you are brained washed all politics are thieves corrupt and are manipulated by the wealthiest people in the US so keep on dreaming I think rather VOTE for myself as president might do better to help our nation.

          • Trump has brought out the worst base instincts of the GOP.

            Conservatives must be very proud.

            Pope Francis is a-comin’ next month and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say to the greedy capitalists in this country. Especially the ones that pretend to be Christians, like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich et al.

    • Not to mention Trump is an inheritance baby that was born rich and stayed rich. Don’t believe for one second his schtick that he worked his way to the top. Trump’s daddy sent him to the best schools and gave him money to invest in real estate. Trump is a chump.