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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Costa Mesa, California – DUI Checkpoint Scheduled on Harbor Boulevard/Ford Road, Saturday, June 19, 2010

The Costa Mesa Police Department will conduct a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint on Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at Harbor Boulevard/Ford Road, in the area where a number of DUI-related collisions and DUI arrests have occurred, our Orange County DUI Lawyers are told.

Officers will screen drivers passing through the checkpoint for sobriety and for a valid driver’s license.

Drivers found to be under the influence of alcohol or other drugs will be arrested, and unlicensed drivers will have their vehicles towed, which can be a significant source of income for police departments.

If you have any questions for an Orange County DUI lawyer, call me, anytime, at (714) 568-1560.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Our Orange County DUI Lawyers learned today that the Costa Mesa Police Department announced they will be holding a DUI/Driver’s License checkpoint on Tuesday June 8, 2010 from 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., on 17 th  Street at Raymond Avenue.

“No matter what you drive—a passenger car, pickup, sport utility vehicle or motorcycle—if we catch you driving impaired, we will arrest you. No exceptions. No excuses,” said Sergeant Dave Makiyama.  “We will be talking to drivers, making sure they are not impaired, arresting those who are, and getting the word out that impaired driving and driving without a proper license is not acceptable in Costa Mesa.

Financial costs of a crash or an arrest for driving while impaired can be significant. Costs for a DUI can exceed $10,000, plus violators face jail time, the loss of their driver’s license, higher insurance rates, and dozens of other unanticipated expenses.

Funding for this checkpoint comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The Costa Mesa Police Department will be holding a DUI checkpoint on Friday, May 7, 2010, at Bristol and Bear streets, from 6pm to 2am.

Brought to you by the Orange County DUI lawyers of Miller and Associates.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Our Orange County DUI Lawyers have learned from the Costa Mesa Police that they will be checking for sobriety and drivers licenses at a checkpoint in Costa Mesa Friday, April 2, 2010

The checkpoint will target drunken and unlicensed drivers from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Newport Boulevard and Flower Street.

Last weekend, police arrested three drunken drivers and gave out 33 citations for license violations at Harbor Boulevard and Peterson Place.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

COSTA MESA An intoxicated pedestrian who walked up to a sobriety checkpoint to see what was taking place was among five arrested Monday, police said.

Police arrested Rodrigo Sajvin Cumes, 37, of Costa Mesa, on a public intoxication charge after he went up to the checkpoint held on Harbor Boulevard at Fair Drive, said Costa Mesa police Sgt. Phil Myers. Cumes was so intoxicated that he could not care for his safety, according to police.

Three people were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and 15 citations were issued, police said. Police screened 633 cars out of 2,055 that went through the checkpoint.

Also, police said two drivers switched seats with passengers out of fear of being arrested for driving under the influence. Those drivers were not arrested, Myers said.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The Costa Mesa Police Department will conduct a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint on Monday, Marc 1 st , from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., on Harbor Boulevard at Fair Drive.  Officers will  screen  drivers  passing  through  the  checkpoint  for  sobriety  and  for  a  valid  driver’s  license.  Drivers found to be under the influence of alcohol or other drugs will be arrested, and unlicensed
drivers may be cited and have their cars towed.

DUI Checkpoints are not an effective way to accomplish the goal of public safety, but they are a cash cow for cops and the city, which needs the funding.  The City makes most of their money from impounding vehicles, which gets paid even if the person is later found innocent, and the Federal Government chips in substantial funding for DUI Checkpoints.  MADD also provides funding and volunteers.

As one of a few experienced Orange County DUI Lawyers practicing in this area, I’ve seen hundreds of DUI Checkpoints.  Contact me if you need the advice of our Newport Beach DUI Lawyers.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

An Orange County DUI checkpoint looking for drunk drivers in Costa Mesa resulted in three arrests this weekend, police said.

The Costa Mesa Police Department set up a checkpoint Friday at the intersection of Baker and Bear streets, according to a department press release.

The checkpoint screened 318 vehicles. Three people were arrested on suspicion of DUI, nine citations were issued and six vehicles were impounded.

“This checkpoint was one of many that have been or will be conducted throughout the year in the city of Costa Mesa,” Sgt. David Makiyama, a police spokesman, said in a statement. “The goal of the DUI checkpoint was removing impaired drivers and to bring awareness to the public of the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.”

As mentioned, DUI Sobriety Checkpoints are becoming more about the money than public safety.  I’ve seen this happen with Los Angeles DUI and Orange County DUI cases, and I can say that with some certainty as one of the top Orange County DUI Lawyers in the area.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

As our Orange County DUI lawyers have previously blogged, Anaheim Police conducted a DUI checkpoint and saturation patrols Friday evening through the wee hours Saturday, while the Orange County Sheriff’s Department also stepped up patrols aimed at getting drunk drivers off the streets of Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills and Laguna Woods that very same night.

While the police were spending their time on profit making Perhaps, then, it should be no surprise that DUI-related collisions that injured three people and left two dead happened instead in Garden Grove, Irvine and Costa Mesa.
A commercial truck tractor went off the residential street of Woodbury Road in Garden Grove around 11 a.m. Friday and hit several trees, a fence, concrete planters and a block wall before coming to a stop at 11052 Woodbury Road.

That’s not all the rig hit, as 36-year-old Olga Quiroz, who was standing in her yard, was struck and dragged under the truck until it came to a halt at the block wall at the back of the property.

Paramedics treated the woman at the scene before having her taken to a local hospital with lacerations, fractures and other injuries to her legs.

The truck’s driver, William Davis, 44, of Orange, was held at the scene by residents until police arrived. Uninjured, Davis was evaluated to have been driving under the influence of alcohol and was later arrested on suspicion of felony DUI.

Several heavy-duty two trucks eventually removed the damaged rig, and the street was closed for about three hours.

The truck and driver were also linked to a non-injury hit and run traffic collision that happened about 45 minutes before at Euclid Avenue and Trask Street. Surveillance video from a nearby home on Woodbury Road is helping investigators piece together the truck’s course of travel moments before the collision. Anyone with other helpful information is asked to contact police Investigator Jason Perkins at (714) 741-5823.

An Irvine police officer saw a 2004, 4-door Nissan Altima zooming at speeds in excess of 80 mph through the Alton Parkway and Harvard Avenue intersection, running a red light, around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.  The chase was on heading east on Alton, but the officer lost sight of the Altima as it continued eastbound through Culver Drive.

About 30 seconds later, another Irvine cop saw the Altima approach the Alton and East Yale intersection, lose control, strike the curb and then collide with a group of trees at the southeast corner. The driver and lone occupant of the Altima was killed instantly. The 24-year-old Garden Grove resident’s name was withheld pending notification of his family.

Around 2:15 a.m. that same morning, a patron of the Red Night Club at 4647 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach, reported that his 2004, 4-door Nissan Altima was stolen from the nightclub’s parking lot. Newport Beach and Irvine police put two and 4-door together and determined the car wrapped around the trees was the stolen Altima.

Because an Irvine officer had tried initially to pull-over a speeding vehicle that was eventually involved in a traffic collision, the California Highway Patrol is conducting the collision investigation. The Orange County Sherriff-Coroner’s Office is conducting toxicology tests on the driver. Anyone with information is asked to contact the CHP’s Santa Ana Office or the Irvine Police Department.

Finally, some time before 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a 2008 white Toyota Tundra that had earlier been involved in a non-injury accident in Santa Ana was seen heading south on Flower Street before going through a red light at the intersection with Sunflower Avenue in Costa Mesa and broadsiding a 2008 gold Toyota Carolla that was heading west on Sunflower.

The passenger in the second car, Cara Lee, 20, of Santa Ana, was killed in the collision.

The Corolla’s driver, Hao A. Nguyen, 21, of Santa Ana, was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana for treatment of minor abrasions. He was later arrested on suspicion of DUI.

The Tundra driver, Gustavo A. Vega, 22, of Costa Mesa, was treated for minor abrasions at the scene and arrested on suspicion of murder, vehicular manslaughter, felony DUI, felony injury hit-and-run and possession of a controlled substance. He also faces additional charges from the earlier hit-and-run in Santa Ana.

Remember to be careful out there.  And, if you ever have questions for a DUI specialist orange county, call me at (877) 568-2977 anytime.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

At least 20 people died in traffic accidents statewide over the New Year’s holiday, and drunken-driving arrests were up more than 30 percent in California compared to the same period last year, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP officers statewide made 898 arrests on suspicion of driving under the influence between 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and 6 a.m. today, up from 688 arrests during the same 36-hour reporting period a year ago.

Officials also reported 20 traffic deaths over the New Year’s holiday, up from 16 a year ago, although all the deaths were not necessarily DUI-related fatalities, the CHP noted.

“People are not designating a non-intoxicated driver, and people need to be aware and remember how important it is to have that person to make sure they get home safely,” said Officer Krystal Carter of the CHP’s transportation management center in Los Angeles.

Local statistics on DUI arrests won’t be released until Monday, officials said.

Although the CHP did not report any traffic deaths in Orange County over the New Year’s holiday, at least one O.C. resident died in a fatal car wreck on a surface street in Orange.

Roger LaSalle, 62, of Costa Mesa apparently lost control of his vehicle and careened into a utility pole on West Chapman Avenue at South Flower Street at 12:12 a.m. today, police said. The cause of his death is pending an autopsy; police say a medical condition may have been at least partly to blame.

Six of this year’s 20 traffic deaths in California reported by the CHP happened during a 12-hour period that began at 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.

And 527 of the DUI arrests – or 59 percent – occurred during this same 12-hour period.

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Orange County DUI Checkpoint Locations: Costa Mesa

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Police agencies all over Orange County are inviting the media to come along for their DUI checkpoints, which, as someone among the few Orange County DUI Lawyers on the front lines of  DUI defense in this county, I have repeatedly reminded people don’t work.

However, I was surprised to see an Orange County Register article mentioning in their photo caption that “DUI checkpoints in Orange County rarely result in many arrests, instead being used as deterrents.”

Funny that they would say that DUI checkpoints are deterrents, since most of the DUI checkpoint locations are not announced, a potential violation of the State of California Supreme Court’s Ingersoll case.  If they were not trying to catch people, but merely deter them, shouldn’t they be getting the word out early, vocally, and often, to “deter”, instead of arrest?

The article is below, and I am assuming that it’s based upon the Costa Mesa Police Department after report, which was first published at the Costa Mesa PD website, here.

“COSTA MESA – Motorists on Tuesday night for the most part didn’t let the holiday season ruin their good judgment, as a DUI checkpoint netted just one suspected drunk driver out of nearly 300 cars.

Costa Mesa police from 6 p.m. to midnight staged the sobriety-screening operation on Santa Ana Avenue at 18th Street. During that time, 296 vehicles drove through, 142 were stopped for further screening and 11 motorists were screened for drunken driving, but in the end, there was one DUI arrest. …”

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