PALMDALE – One motorist was arrested for driving under the influence and 27 people were arrested for license violations at a DUI checkpoint in Palmdale this past weekend, authorities said.
The checkpoint was conducted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department from 6 p.m. Friday, June 11, to 2 a.m. Saturday, June 12, on Avenue S at 40th Street East, according to a news release from the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.
The results of the checkpoint are as follows:
- One person was arrested for driving under the influence.
- 27 drivers were cited/arrested for operating a vehicle unlicensed or with a suspended/revoked license.
- Three vehicles were towed.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting additional DUI/driver’s license checkpoints and saturation patrols throughout the year as part of an 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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Lorie says
If you don’t have a valid license, then you shouldn’t be driving! This is why insurance rates are so damn high in LA County…too many unlicensed drivers doing hit-n-runs and leaving the responsible drivers to have extra coverage and escalating rates.
The more the Sheriffs Dept. can net off the road, the better off the rest of us are!
Constantine says
I second that too
surfside 6 says
DUI fanatics have concocted themselves a phony cause in drinking drivers. Oh they’re out there alright, and the world never shuts up about them. But most drinking drivers go through life driving just fine. But even in alcohol’s motorized age, the sad news for the DUI crusade is that accidents tend to occur for the same boring non-spectacular reason that accidents have always occurred One driver simply failed to see the other.
James Hood says
Definitely agree with you!
Citizen says
Drivers arrested at a DUI sobriety checkpoint may be able to challenge their arrest on constitutional grounds. While the police do NOT need “probable cause” to stop drivers at a checkpoint, the checkpoint itself must meet certain requirements under both the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.The legal requirements for California DUI sobriety checkpoints are:
Supervising officers must make all operational decisions;
The criteria for stopping motorists must be neutral;
The checkpoint must be reasonably located;
Adequate safety precautions must be taken;
The checkpoint’s time and duration should reflect “good judgment”;
The checkpoint must exhibit sufficient indicia of its official nature;
Drivers should be detained for a minimal amount of time; and
Roadblocks should be publicly advertised in advance.1
If a checkpoint does not meet these requirements, a driver arrested at such an inspection may be able to defend against DUI charges.
Salvador Gonzalez says
That’s the reason ca.is so f/u
T. says
I agree!
Jesse Maestro says
What about Torrance PD that waits in parking lots and wait to see how your walking ,then pull you over in the. Ar down the street,I see this alot
Oracle 80 says
Practice Evade and Avoid techniques. I don’t drink anymore especially when driving, or anything else also.
But setting up Communist style roadblocks only causes otherwise law abiding citizens undue pain, suffering, and hardship. Like the single mother who had her car confiscated like a Communist country would do. Welcome to the ” NEW ” normal.
Lorie says
I guess you love those high auto insurance rates WE ALL get charged by the insurance companies to pay for your beloved unlicensed drivers then, don’t you?
Checkpoint says
Nothing in the LACSD press release stated the number of vehicles screened.
Riker Bono says
I went through this checkpoint and when approched I told the officer I have a clean slate, a valid D.L. and insurance, no longer on probation and that I will do as asked and comply with anything related to testing and checking to see that I am not impaired in anyway while I am driving, and I apologize officer but I will
Refuse to answer or comply with any other questions or request related to anything else. I showed the officer my D.L. He gave me 2 thumbs up and said you may proceed, have a safe night.
Protect Trans kids says
Oh I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
I won’t forget the men who died
Enforcing tyranny
Steve says
Wrong form keep your perversion somewhere else
James Hood says
Now I need a drink!!!!
D says
I think it’s great that they got the 1 drunk person. But I would like to know how the decided which to arrest and who had their car towed. If they only towed 3 cars but 27 arrests, what happened to the other 24 cars. I also find it really upsetting when one of those cars impounded belonged to a single mom, who can no longer get to work.
who wasn't towed says
Well – good question; but the other cars may have been driven by someone with a suspended license and yet had a passenger with a valid license who could drive the car. Another possibility is that those individuals who were released provided proof likely that they’d appear in court and the ones arrested couldn’t prove that.
If you depend on your car for work, you’d better keep the registration & insurance current. Otherwise you get a bicycle.
Larry says
Does really matter how many cars passed through?
JT says
If you got your ride impounded you probably deserved it and I hope it happens again sometime soon Ha Ha Ha
Regards
Joe Trucker
Stet says
Agreed!
Tim says
It’s interesting info that can be sifted for patterns. If 1000 cars passed through, and there was one DUI, we now have a data point. If we had similar data points from other planned checkpoints, we can learn about the population.
To those that rage against the Jackbooted Instruments of Oppression: those officers are at a high visibility stop that was advertised in the paper for weeks in advance, and may have also been on Twitter feeds and news feeds and the like.
Why, also, would you fight so hard against a tool that exists to remove impaired drivers from the road? If you’re crunk, call a Lyft or Uber.
I hate driving around people that are obviously not sober, I have a family that depends on me and my car to work. Can’t do that if I get monster trucked by a drunk in a jacked up coal roller.
Barbi says
… lack for transparency, denote law enforcement officials, deliberately withholding statistical information on the total number of motorists surveyed, between 6:00 pm and 2:00 am, Friday night –
Dr. In Soo says
Statistics for idiots 101, withholding the aggregate number of vehicles screened renders the number of arrests at a sobriety checkpoint utterly meaningless.
Gabriela Ortiz says
Nice job,I wish they will do this very often.