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DUI crackdown getting under way in Sonoma County

Sonoma County's anti-DUI task force is launching its annual, winter holiday crackdown with a DUI checkpoint planned for this weekend. The Avoid the 13 task force also will send out teams of police officers on patrols specifically looking for DUI suspects, conducting probation and parole checks of those convicted of [...]

By | December 16th, 2011|0 Comments

Anti-DUI task force gets $300,000

Sonoma County's anti-DUI campaign will continue after the state awarded a $300,000 grant for the Avoid the 13 task force. The task force, which includes all police agencies in the county and is coordinated by Petaluma police, had a three-year grant of $659,000 that ended Sept. 30. The money pays [...]

By | November 3rd, 2011|12 Comments

DUI crackdown this Halloween weekend

Extra officers will be on the roads this Halloween weekend looking for DUI suspects as part of a Sonoma County-wide crackdown. Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano, who coordinates the county's anti-DUI Avoid the 13 task force, said all police agencies will beef up patrols with officers assigned to specifically look [...]

By | October 28th, 2011|7 Comments

Santa Rosa DUI checkpoint

The first indication of Friday night's DUI/license checkpoint in Santa Rosa were the half dozen or so protesters holding reflective signs saying "RETEN" in Spanish for checkpoint. But before drivers knew it, they were being funneled amid flashing police lights into one lane on eastbound Fourth Street in [...]

By | September 2nd, 2011|39 Comments

DUI checkpoint Thursday in Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa police Thursday will hold a DUI/license checkpoint as part of a two-week crackdown by Sonoma County's Avoid the 13 anti-DUI task force. The checkpoint will be 7 p.m. Thursday to 1 a.m. Friday at a location that police aren't revealing. The Avoid the 13 task force has held [...]

By | September 1st, 2011|15 Comments

DUI checkpoint tonight

A DUI/license checkpoint will be held Friday night and another Saturday night in Sonoma County as part of the countywide Avoid the 13 task force's end-of-summer DUI crackdown. While authorities haven't said where the checkpoints will be, it's a good bet that one of them will be in Petaluma because [...]

By | August 18th, 2011|5 Comments

Meet county’s anti-DUI boss

Ken Savano doesn’t mind if you’re out on the town and have a drink or so. But just be sure you’re not driving afterward when you shouldn’t be because if you are, Savano is hoping you’ll wind up arrested and in jail. “Many people say, ‘I’m fine. I’m OK,’ but [...]

By | August 16th, 2011|12 Comments

Cinco de Mayo DUI crackdown

It's Cinco de Mayo today, and police across Sonoma County will be looking for drivers who've partied too much. The county's Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force, in cooperation with the county's various police agencies, plans extra patrols with the primary purpose of arresting DUI drivers. The added enforcement is [...]

By | May 5th, 2011|7 Comments

DUI crackdown on St. Patrick’s Day

A special DUI strike team of police officers will patrol downtown Cotati on Thursday to arrest anyone who celebrated St. Patrick's Day with too much to drink. Other extra officers will be focusing on areas in the Sonoma County with high incidents of DUI collisions and arrests, all part of [...]

By | March 16th, 2011|1 Comment

10 arrests in first day of DUI crackdown

A total of 10 suspected DUI drivers were arrested Friday night, including one at a Petaluma checkpoint, during the first day of a 18-day crackdown by Sonoma County police officers. The stepped-up enforcement is part of the county’s Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force, which includes all police agencies in [...]

By | December 18th, 2010|0 Comments