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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

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An Orange County sheriff’s DUI task force will conduct roving patrols in the San Juan Capistrano area tonight and in Dana Point and San Clemente.

The DUI teams will target areas that have high incidences of DUI-related arrests and collisions. The specific locations are not being released.

“The goal of the program is to reduce the rate at which the citizens of Orange County are killed or injured in DUI-related collisions,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

The DUI task force is funded with grant money from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

The Orange County Register today had a story about Deputy Dallas Hennessey, who has been named as Lake Forest Deputy of the Year.  Hennessey, a 10-year Orange County Sheriff’s Department veteran, in 2008 was honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for having the highest number of arrests among sheriff contract cities in the county. Since coming to Lake Forest in 2007, Hennessey has consistently been honored for his record arrests three years in a row. In 2008, more than 2,500 drivers were arrested for drunken driving countywide.

Hennessey — a drug recognition expert — has catching drunken drivers down to an art. In 2007, he arrested 111, becoming the department’s only deputy who has generated more than 100 arrests in one year.

Police services in Lake Forest have taken advantage of the deputy’s keen eye to continue an effort to take drunken drivers off the streets. In 2007, Lake Forest led cities that contract with the Sheriff’s Department in the number in DUI arrests, with 266. Stanton followed as a distant second with 188, and Dana Point reported 182.

Among Hennessey’s other accomplishments is his work as part of a special enforcement team. In this role, Hennessey, is part of an anti-tagging program. In 1½ years he and his partners have cleared out more than 100 cases and made more than 40 arrests. He is also active in community education and is a master instructor in the use of Taser and has testified as an expert in court.

“He is very involved and dedicated to the community,” said Lt. Doug Doyle, chief of police services for the city. “He produced an incredible body of work this year and he consistently far exceeds expectations in every area of his responsibilities.”

Watch out for Lake Forest – and if you have any questions for an Los Angeles DUI or Orange County DUI Lawyer, call me anytime at (877) 568-2977. I’m happy to help in any way that I can.

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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

(Note: The following article is from the OC Register, and was sent as part of a press release/news alert to our firm, which specializes in Orange County DUI defense).

The California Highway Patrol arrested 73 people in Orange County on suspicion of drunken driving over the Labor Day holiday weekend, compared to 67 last year.
No one was killed in traffic collisions on Orange County freeways, CHP Officer Jennifer Hink said today.
Several other policing agencies throughout the county also made DUI arrests and cracked down on unsafe driving practices, by holding checkpoints and showing an increased presence over the holiday weekend.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested 35 DUI suspects in checkpoints in Dana Point and Mission Viejo, and through saturated patrol efforts, Sgt. Jerry Brittain said.
Three DUI suspects were arrested in a checkpoint Saturday night in Irvine.
Newport Beach police arrested 10 people suspected of drunken driving, Newport Beach police Lt. Craig Fox said. La Habra police also held DUI enforcement efforts over the weekend. Results were not immediately.
Statewide, 10 people were killed on highways between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday, the CHP reported. That compares with 23 fatalities during the same period last year, the CHP said. At least half those killed this year were not wearing seat-belts, the CHP said.
The final statewide number for DUI arrests will likely be available later today, CHP spokeswoman Jaime Coffee said.
During these periods, which typically coincide with major holidays, the highway patrol and often other law enforcement increase patrols and stage sobriety checkpoints.

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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

The following article is from the Orange County Register. However, it has an incomplete listing of DUI checkpoints this weekend. See the master list of DUI checkpoints for this weekend for more than are listed here by our Orange County DUI lawyers:

Law enforcement agencies are wrapping up the summer with DUI checkpoints and are stepping up enforcement on seat belts and speeding.
Starting at 6 p.m. Friday and lasting through midnight Monday, all available California Highway Patrol officers will take to the roads in one of the department’s periodic maximum enforcement efforts, watching out for violators in the three leading causes of highway deaths: driving under the influence, not wearing seat belts, and speeding, the CHP said.
In 2008, more than 11,700 people died in highway crashes nationwide involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. In California, the preliminary number for 2008 was 1,029 deaths, a 9 percent reduction from the year before.
During the Labor Day weekend enforcement period last year in Orange County, one person, a 64 year-old man, died after being ejected from his vehicle on the Beach Boulevard on-ramp to the northbound I-405, said CHP officer Jennifer Hink. The man was not wearing a seat-belt, she said.
The CHP arrested 67 people on suspicion of DUI during the same period, according to statistics.
Orange County agencies will also be conducting saturation patrols, in which all available officers are put on the roads to look for drunken drivers and other dangerous driving acts.
Here is a schedule of planned DUI enforcement operations:
•Checkpoint – Friday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m.–3 a.m., Dana Point
•Checkpoint – 9 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday on northbound Newport Boulevard at Finley Avenue in Newport Beach
•Task force operation – Saturday, 8 p.m.–2 a.m., La Habra
•Saturation patrols – Saturday, 8 p.m. – 3 a.m., County of Orange
•Saturation patrols – Sunday, 8 p.m. – 3 a.m., County of Orange

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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

All 38 Orange County law enforcement agencies are planning DUI enforcement operations – checkpoints and saturation patrols – running from today through Labor Day weekend.

The operations are funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety, and are part of a nationwide effort that includes $13 million in advertisements.

In 2008, more than 11,700 people died in highway crashes involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. In California, the provisional number for 2008 was 1,029 deaths, a 9 percent reduction from the year before.

The Anaheim Police Department provided the following schedule of DUI enforcement operations:

• Checkpoint – Friday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m.–3 a.m., Fullerton

• Checkpoint – Friday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m.–3 a.m., Dana Point

• Task force operation – Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m.–2 a.m., La Habra

• Saturation patrols – Saturday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m.–3 a.m., County of Orange

• Checkpoint – Saturday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m.–3 a.m., Anaheim

• Checkpoint – Friday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m.–3 a.m., Irvine

• Saturation patrols – Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m. – 3 a.m., County of Orange

• Saturation patrols – Sunday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m. – 3 a.m., County of Orange

• Saturation patrols – Friday, Aug. 21, through Monday, Sept. 7

Orange County agencies will be conducting a total of 30 saturation patrols funded by a state grant in the cities of Brea, Buena Park, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, La Habra, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Orange, Placentia, Seal Beach, and Westminster, and at UC Irvine and the Cal State Fullerton.

If you need a DUI Attorney in Orange County, call me at 714-568-1560.

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DUI Roving Patrols in San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente tonight

Friday, March 18th, 2011

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The Laguna Beach Street Beat had some of the following results of a night of patrol.  Of the DUI checkpoint on December 27, 2008, 1502 cars went through the checkpoint, with 5 arrests (which is actually higher than usual), a 0.003% effectiveness rate.  Some of the other activities are semi-humorous:

DUI Arrests:

Glenneyre – 1800 Block Friday – 2:15 p.m. (Cell caller alert)

Hannah E. Riley, 31, Dana Point

(See 12/26 incident reports below for related arrest)

High Drive – 300 Block Friday – 8:13 p.m. (Cell caller alert)

Lawrence John Oakes, 71, Villa Park (with a prior)

Coast Hwy & Vista Del Sol Saturday – 1:48 a.m.

Brock Edward Sumner, 22, Laguna Beach (with a prior)

(Also held on a Harbor Court DUI warrant with bail of $15,000)

SB Interstate 5 & Laguna Canyon Rd Saturday – 2:28 a.m.

Enrique Tanilong Guizon, Jr., 35, Lake Forest

A Laguna officer returning from an OC Jail transport made the car stop. Police said the officer saw Guizon’s car weaving across

several freeway lanes.

DUI Checkpoint Arrests

Coast Hwy & Blue Lagoon Police conducted a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint from 9 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday in the southbound lanes. Police said 1502 vehicles passed through and 644 of those were stopped and given educational materials. 11 field sobriety tests were administered and five drivers were arrested for driving under the influence:

10:48 p.m. – Travis Michael Retter, 28, Berkeley

11:26 p.m. James Michael Sargent, Jr., Dallas

12:38 a.m. Gregory Stroh Nowling, 36, Laguna Beach

12:56 a.m. Randall Wayne Mello, 54, Mission Viejo

1:09 a.m. Marcus Dante Cash, 20, San Juan Capistrano

(Cash was arrested after his car went past the checkpoint in the opposite lanes at high speed. See Sunday incident reports below.)

S. Coast Hwy & Cardinal Drive Warrants; Curfew Violations 1:09 a.m. Officers from the DUI checkpoint chased down a Honda Civic that had been traveling northbound on Coast Hwy at high speed. The driver, Marcus Dante Cash, 20, San Juan Capistrano, was arrested for DUI. A female passenger was bleeding from the nose and medics were called. She was taken to South Coast Medical Center. She had apparently fallen on a staircase. Other passengers told police that they were taking her to the hospital (which they had already passed). Richard Joseph Solorio, Jr, San Juan Capistrano, was arrested for four outstanding warrants. A Harbor Court want with $15,000 bail had a charge of petty theft. Two of three Harbor Court Laguna Hills warrants had charges of FTA possession of under an ounce of marijuana and a third was for FTA minor in possession of alcohol. Three male juvenile passengers, two, age 16, from Laguna Niguel and a 15-year-old from Dana Point were issued a citation for curfew violation before being released to their parents. Police said one of the juveniles was found in the car’s trunk.

Cresta Way – 3000 Block Drugs 12:23 p.m. Police received a call from a resident explaining that a car had been parked on the street about 20 minutes without turning off the headlamps. The caller added that no one had gotten out of the car. Officers arrived and found Laguna Niguel resident Reign Robert Kahn-Johnson, 19, sleeping in the car. He was awakened and the cops told him they smelled marijuana. He told them where it was and police took possession of 100 grams of pot. He also had a small amount of hashish. He was arrested for felony possession of marijuana for sales and felony possession of hash. When he was booked, police ran the serial number of a Pierre Cardin watch he had worn and learned that it had been stolen during a robbery in LA. A felony charge of possession of stolen property was added.