DUI/license checkpoints will be held tonight and Saturday night as part of a 18-day campaign by Sonoma County police agencies cracking down on drunken drivers. Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano, coordinator for the Avoid the 13-Sonoma County DUI Task Force, said in a statement that police would not disclose which [...]
Santa Rosa police tonight will hold a DUI/license checkpoint, while 25 officers from around Sonoma County will out looking for drunken-driving suspects and those with warrants. The checkpoint will be 7 p.m. today to 2 a.m. Saturday, police said. It's location is not being disclosed by police. For the other [...]
A Vallejo man was arrested this week for the 10th time on a DUI-related charge. Here's a news release from Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano about it: Incident: 10 Time Habitual DUI Offender Arrested After 3 DUI Crashes in 2 Months Locations: Petaluma, California Summary: On Thursday, August 19, 2010, [...]
A major crackdown on DUI drivers starts today for 18 days across Sonoma County with extra officers looking for drunken drivers and four DUI/license checkpoints this weekend. It's all part of the county's Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force's "summer mobilization" campaign, which itself is part of a nationwide DUI [...]
School starts this week for many Sonoma County students, and police will be paying extra attention for traffic violators around schools and school buses. CHP Officer Jon Sloat reminds drivers of these laws: --If a school bus is flashing its red lights and/or has a stop sign out on two-lane [...]
Petaluma police tonight will hold two DUI/license checkpoints from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The checkpoints are part of a department program to crack down on drunken drivers and those driving on suspended licenses or without a license at all. Petaluma has held several checkpoints this year and is the [...]
Three DUI/license checkpoints will be set up tonight and extra police officers will be on duty this July 4th weekend as part of a stepped-up crackdown on drunken drivers in Sonoma County. The CHP and Petaluma and Santa Rosa police each plan checkpoints tonight. Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano, who [...]
Of the 22 drivers arrested Saturday night at Petaluma's latest DUI/license checkpoint, one was a 33-year-old Petaluma man who had been convicted three times of DUI. Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano said Amador Fernandez Hernandez ignored stop signs at the checkpoint and an officer's order to halt before finally stopping [...]
Q: What's the law on mounting GPS devices on your windshield? Greg A: The law, which took effect Jan. 1, 2009, specifies that a GPS device be mounted within "a 7-inch square area in the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed from the driver (the passenger side) or in [...]
Fifty-six people were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving over the Memorial Day weekend as part of a crackdown by police throughout Sonoma County. Of the 56, three were arrested at a DUI/driver's license checkpoint Friday night in Cotati. Seven other people were arrested at the checkpoint on suspicion of [...]