OC Arrests 154 during holiday DUI crackdown

Our Orange County DUI Lawyers do our best to bring you current relevant information about Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations. Note this article, which originated as a press release from the Avoid the 28 campaign.

Note also the DUI checkpoint information at the bottom of this post, revealing Orange County DUI Checkpoint locations in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, and Aliso Viejo.

154 people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Orange County during a weeklong campaign in effect through Christmas Day, according to the multiagency DUI task force known as “Avoid the 28″.

From Dec. 18 through Dec. 25, avoid the 28 reported that 154 arrests were made in O.C. cities. There were no fatalities.

Sgt. J. Brittain with Orange County Sheriff’s Department Traffic Bureau said the number will be higher because not all agencies have reported their statistics.

Last year, law enforcement agencies reported 309 arrests from Dec. 12 through Dec. 25, with three fatalities.

The campaign, known as “Avoid” – involving the California Highway Patrol, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and police departments – lasts through Jan. 3.

The California Highway Patrol made 53 DUI arrests on O.C. freeways during its maximum-enforcement period, which started at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and went through midnight Sunday, said CHP officer Denise Quesada. No fatalities were reported.

Throughout the state, 16 people were killed on highways over the Christmas holiday weekend – the same number of fatalities for the same period last year.

The number of drunken-driving arrests made by the CHP is up, however – to 970 from 824 in 2008. The figures cover the time period from 6 p.m. Christmas Eve until 6 a.m. Sunday.

California’s Office of Traffic Safety has declared 2010 the “Year of the Checkpoint” and has planned to spend $8 million in checkpoint grants statewide. That effort began Dec. 18 with more than 250 checkpoints scheduled around the state between then and New Year’s weekend.

In Orange County, a dozen cities will receive a total of about $420,500 for checkpoints this month and throughout 2010. To get the money, they had to agree to staff at least one checkpoint a month, as well as a bigger push to fight drunken driving during the winter holidays and again around Labor Day weekend.

As previously reported, a Costa Mesa DUI Checkpoint will be run on December 29, 2009, in Costa Mesa. Also, on Dec. 31, DUI saturation patrols are scheduled from 8 p.m. through 3 a.m. in Anaheim. In Aliso Viejo, a DUI checkpoint is scheduled from 7 p.m. Dec. 31 to 3 a.m. Jan. 2.
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