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It’s always scary to find out just exactly what’s going on out there on the roads.

Here’s what Hawthorne police Lt. Mike Ishii told us today about the department’s Friday night sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint at 135th Street and Prairie Avenue:

They arrested five suspected drunken motorists, and cited 45 people for driving with suspended driver’s licenses or no licenses at all.

One additional person was arrested for being intoxicated in public. Fifty cars were towed away.

And then there was Brandon Ferrell, 23, of Los Angeles, who police say pulled out of the checkpoint’s cone pattern and raced away at speeds up to 100 mph.

Officers in Hawthorne’s chopper followed him, watched him abandon his car and pointed him out to officers on the ground. They hauled him in near Rosecrans and Lemoli avenues.

Turns out Ferrell had good reason to avoid the checkpoint. Police say he had a large quantity of marijuana in his car.
 
Cops arrested Ferrell on suspicion of evading arrest and drug trafficking.

(The checkpoint, by the way, was reported in advance in the Daily Breeze, on dailybreeze.com, and this blog.)