Ventura County crackdown leads to 287 arrests
The Camarillo Acorn reports that the winter holiday crackdown on drunk drivers in Ventura (CA) county led to 287 arrests, with a majority of those (135) coming from the Ventura office of the California Highway Patrol.
“We are very pleased with the number of DUI arrests our Avoid the 14 officers made over the holidays,” said Senior Officer Humberto Jimenez of the Oxnard Police Department, campaign coordinator.
“We prevented a great many deaths and injuries by taking these dangerous drivers off the road,” Jimenez said
The crackdown, from December 15th to midnight on January 1st, included sobriety checkpoints, in-city DUI patrols, CHP freeway saturation, and an emphasis on regular beats focusing on DUIs during the period.
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