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Orange County Memorial Day DUI Checkpoint Locations

Friday, May 28th, 2010

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Our Orange County DUI Lawyers have received a request from the OC Sheriff’s Department to help spread the word about their Memorial Day Weekend Schedule of Operations, including both DUI checkpoints and Roving Patrols.

DUI Checkpoints:

FRIDAY, May 28:

Orange County Sheriff’s Department (City of Laguna Woods)

Brea Police Department

La Habra Police Department

In addition, the Huntington Beach PD is conducting their own DUI Checkpoint, at Pacific Coast Highway at Huntington Street, City of Huntington Beach on  May 29, 2010, starting at 9pm.

Saturation Patrols:

FRIDAY – MONDAY, May 28-31:  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will conduct DUI Roving Patrols in their south contract cities.

DUI Roving Patrols will also be conducted by police in the following cities:

Anaheim,

Buena Park,

Fountain Valley,

Fullerton,

Irvine,

La Habra,

Orange,

Placentia,

Seal Beach,

Tustin,

Westminster

UCI Campus police.

Contact:     For more information contact the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Public Affairs Office at (714) 647-7042.  And, if you have questions for a DUI Specialist Orange County, call me at (714) 568-1560.

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Orange County Memorial Day DUI Checkpoint Locations

Friday, May 28th, 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 Memorial Day DUI Checkpoint Locations

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Law enforcement teams will be out in force this Saturday night watching for drunk drivers and more. The CHP, Seal Beach Police Department, SBPD, the Los Alamitos Police Department, LAPD, and the Orange County Sherriff Department, OCSD, will all participate in DUI enforcement. In West Orange County alone, there will be two checkpoints on PCH.

SBPD will man a checkpoint from 7:00 PM Saturday night, until 3:00 am Sunday morning, on Southbound PCH at First Street. About 3 or 4 miles to the South, the CHP will intercept any Northbound PCH traffic at Andersen in Sunset Beach. The CHP checkpoint, which will be staffed by 7 officers, will operate during the same hours.

According to Sergeant Steve Bowles, SBPD, it is a coincidence that both agencies are planning checkpoints at the same time on PCH. The CHP and SBPD did not coordinate these two operations, but Bowls said SBPD decided to set up their checkpoint Southbound at First because it is a safe area to operate and is several miles from the CHP checkpoint on the northbound traffic.

According to Captain McAlpine of the LAPD, Los Alamitos will help staff the Seal Beach checkpoint, but will not operate their own. “They requested some help from us and we are going to utilize our motor officer to assist them with their checkpoint.”

OCSD will conduct DUI roving patrols in the cities of Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills and Laguna Woods tonight, February 12, 2010. These Multi-City DUI teams will target areas that have a high incidence of DUI-related arrests and collisions.

SBPD’s St. Bowls told our Orange County DUI Lawyers that these DUI checkpoints are designed to apprehend drunk drivers, but also to call public attention to the dangers of driving under the influence. The SBPD does not attempt to conceal the time and locations of the checkpoints because they want to call attention to the issues. Caltrans requires warning signs of lane closures well ahead of any checkpoint and law enforcement authorities are required to publicize them in advance.

SBPD last operated a checkpoint on New Years Eve. Bowls said they can get as many as 9 or 10 drunk driving arrests at a typical checkpoint, but none were arrested on New Years Eve. They also check drivers licenses at these checkpoints and four people were taken into custody on outstanding warrants at the last checkpoint

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Orange County Memorial Day DUI Checkpoint Locations

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Our Orange County DUI Lawyers have learned that the “Avoid the 12” DUI Task Force will be conducting DUI roving patrols in the cities of Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel,  Laguna Hills and Laguna Woods on Friday, February 12, 2010.  These Multi-City DUI teams will target areas that have a high incidence of DUI-related arrests and collisions.

The goal of the program is to spend funding from the federal government and MADD specifically for DUI checkpoints, even though DUI checkpoints are not an effective way to prevent DUIs.

Orange County Sheriff’s Department Deputies are committed to working hand in hand with their contract city partners in providing a safe environment for the motoring public.

Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Orange County Memorial Day DUI Checkpoint Locations

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Our Orange County DUI Lawyers get information from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department regarding upcoming DUI checkpoints and DUI patrols. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is planning a DUI roving patrol (which are teams of officers trained in DUI arrests, specifically looking for drunk drivers), for Friday, December 4, 2009.

The roving patrols for this date specifically are targeting the following cities:

Aliso Viejo;
Laguna Niguel;
Laguna Hills; and
Laguna Woods.

More information at this link, or you can always call me at 714-568-1560 for your Orange County DUI or Los Angeles DUI questions.