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Two DUI arrests, 22 vehicles impounded at Lancaster DUI Checkpoint

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LANCASTER – Deputies from Lancaster Sheriff’s Station conducted a Sobriety and Driver’s License Checkpoint from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday, March 23. The checkpoint location was westbound Avenue I at 3rd Street East. The results of the checkpoint are as follows:

  • 809 vehicles traveled through the checkpoint.
  • Seven drivers were waived through because of traffic congestion.
  • 802 drivers were screened while in their vehicles.
  • Five drivers were required to perform field sobriety tests.
  • Two were arrested for DUI.
  • 22 vehicles were stored or impounded.
  • 28 citations/arrests for suspended, revoked, or no driver’s license.
  • 10 citations were issued for miscellaneous traffic violations in and around the checkpoint.
  • Two were arrested for misdemeanor warrants.
  • Four were arrested for allowing an unlicensed driver to drive.

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

Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

5 comments for "Two DUI arrests, 22 vehicles impounded at Lancaster DUI Checkpoint"

  1. Thank goodness for checkpoints the police do not get enough drunk drivers off the road. Checkpoints are only unconstitutional to those that break the law.

  2. You’re right. Next time you drive through one of those checkpoints, make sure you tell the cop how unconstitutional it is. Then, while you are sitting in jail, you can take a class and learn how to spell complex words like “for” and “sacrifice.”

    • Yeah thanks fir the unconstitutional check point. If you sacrafice liberty for safety you wind up with neither nor do you deserve either one.