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Cinco de Mayo DUI crackdown

Thursday, at 6:37 by

Police across Sonoma County on Saturday will be sending out extra officers targeting DUI drivers on Cinco de Mayo. The added enforcement, which begins at noon, is part of the county’s Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force in which all police agencies in the county belong to. The CHP also will send out saturation patrols. “Cinco de Mayo is a special opportunity to gather with friends and co-workers for chips, salsa and margaritas, celebrating California’s rich cultural diversity.  It is… Read More »

DUI/license checkpoint in Santa Rosa

Thursday, at 8:44 by

Santa Rosa police on Friday night will be holding a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint. The checkpoint will be 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday and, as is usual, police declined to say where it would be. Officers typically arrest only a couple of DUI suspects out of the hundreds of drivers stopped at such checkpoints, but local police say the checkpoints help deter people from drinking and driving. The checkpoints are highly visible with a dozen or more officers and… Read More »

DUI/license checkpoint Friday in Santa Rosa

Monday, at 6:52 by

Santa Rosa police on Friday plan to hold a DUI/license checkpoint. The checkpoint, the location of which wasn’t being disclosed, will be from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday. Funding for the operation comes from the state Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Safety Administration. —————- Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior

DUI crackdown this St. Patrick’s weekend

Thursday, at 2:26 by

Extra police officers will out on patrol this weekend looking for DUI drivers. It’s part of Sonoma County’s anti-DUI Avoid the 13 task force, and it’s being conducted this weekend because Saturday is St. Patrick’s Day, a time when some people celebrate a bit too much and then drive. The extra officers will hit the streets at 6 p.m. Friday, with the extra enforcement ending at 6 a.m. Sunday. “Whether you are meeting a few friends at the local pub… Read More »

DUI/license checkpoint Friday in Santa Rosa

Thursday, at 5:22 by

Santa Rosa police will be holding a DUI/license checkpoint  Friday night. Police wouldn’t reveal the location other than to say it will be on the east side of Santa Rosa from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday. The checkpoint, one of several the Police Department is holding this year, is funded by a grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. —————– Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior.

DUI/license checkpoint Friday night in Santa Rosa

Thursday, at 8:39 by

Santa Rosa police plan a DUI/license checkpoint Friday night. The location isn’t being disclosed by police, but it will be 6 p.m. to midnight, weather permitting. Police Sgt. Lance Badger said in a statement that checkpoints are a proven tool in reducing the number of people killed and injured in alcohol-involved crashes. He said such crashes drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough. He said DUI crashes take their toll on the community.… Read More »

Are you speeding in the Hwy. 101 construction zone?

Wednesday, at 4:48 by

A pet peeve of many Road Warrior readers is speeding in the Highway 101 construction zone from Rohnert Park to Petaluma. CHP officers are on it. Lately in the evening, one or two officers have been standing along the shoulder of southbound 101 — behind K-rails — checking drivers’ speeds with their LIDAR  guns. Last night, one officer was just south of Commerce Boulevard while another was on the Petaluma side of the Cotati Grade, both shooting LIDAR. You couldn’t… Read More »

2 DUI/license checkpoints this weekend

Friday, at 7:43 by

Sonoma County’s anti-DUI task force wraps up its annual winter holiday crackdown this weekend with two DUI/license checkpoints. Officers from police agencies in the county also will be out on special DUI patrols, looking for DUI suspects, searching for those with DUI warrants and conducting random DUI probation and parole checks of those convicted of drunken driving. As is typical, the Avoid the 13 task force won’t say where or what nights the two checkpoints will be. But any checkpoint… Read More »

Anti-DUI patrols hit Sonoma County roads Friday night

Friday, at 2:45 by

Going out drinking tonight? Maybe just a few glasses of wine over dinner? Beware. Sonoma County’s Avoid the 13 anti-DUI task force will be out in force Friday night looking for DUI suspects. The patrols involving 25 officers from 13 of the county’s police agencies will start a bit after 5 p.m. and will last until 3 a.m. Saturday. The extra enforcement is part of the task force’s Christmas-New Year’s Eve campaign targeting drunken drivers. Since Dec. 16, when the… Read More »