Results tagged “DUI” from News 24/7

A 27-year-old woman was arrested Friday after she allegedly lead San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies on a drunken chase.

Michelle Hoey, of Upland, was booked into West Valley Detention Center on suspicion of felony evading and driving under the influence of alcohol.

About 11:35 p.m., sheriff's deputies from the Rancho Cucamonga station tried to pull Hoey's vehicle over for an expired vehicle registration and erratic driving on 4th Street, west of Milliken Avenue, according to a sheriff's news release.

Hoey refused to stop and lead sheriff's deputies on a pursuit through flooded streets and rain, exceeding speeds of 70 mph.

Sheriff's deputies stopped Hoey by using an intervention maneuver on 4th Street near Del Rio Place in Ontario, according to the news release. No injuries were reported.

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Twelve drivers were arrested during a DUI Saturation Patrol in Fontana in December.

About 140 vehicles were stopped and 42 Field Sobriety Tests were conducted between Dec. 13 and 31, according to a Fontana Police news release.

Officers assigned during the patrol also impounded 11 vehicles and issued 24 citations, police said. One additional arrest was made for a DUI warrant.

The program was funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, according to the news release.

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Chino police will conduct a DUI/Driver's License checkpoint tonight in the city.

The checkpoint will start about 9 p.m. near the 12000 block of Central Avenue, according to a police news release.

The Police Department is participating in the California's Holiday DUI Crackdown Campaign with hopes to reduce the amount of people killed or injured in alcohol related collisions, according to the news release.

Alcohol-related fatalities dropped 8.3 percent last year in California for the first time since 1998, according to the news release.

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This holiday season, take time to notice other drivers as you commute back and forth between shopping, parties and family get-togethers.

As part of the California's Holiday DUI Crackdown Campaign, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department has released a list of things to look for that indicate a driver might be intoxicated.

Drunken drivers might:

• drive aggressively

• weave or swerve in and out of lanes

• travel at speeds much slower than the flow of traffic

• brake erratically or stop

• stay at a signal light once it turns green

• make wide turns or cut a corner

• have their headlights off at night

• drive with turn signals on

• straddle the center line of the road or lane lines

• stare straight ahead with their face close to the windshield

• be asleep at the wheel.

Drivers are also encouraged to call 911 and report drunken drivers. They should be able to describe the vehicle, its location and direction of travel, according to a sheriff's news release.

Sheriff's departments throughout the state have increased anti-DUI operations, which include sobriety checkpoints, to get dangerous drivers off the road, according to the news release.

A grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is funding the statewide activities, according to the news release.

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The 23-year-old Pomona mother who crashed her car Saturday morning, killing her 3-month-old son, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, child endangerment and felony DUI.

 

Stephanie Navarro, who sustained minor injuries from the collision, was booked at Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside.

 

Her son, Romeo Devear Peters died at 4:11 a.m. at Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center in Riverside where he was taken after the crash, the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner officials said.

Navarro was driving northbound about 3:15 a.m. on Van Buren Boulevard, north of 52nd Street, when her vehicle drifted to the right, went off the road into a 15-foot-deep ravine and struck a tree.

 

Officials said she was going about 60 mph at the time of the crash.

The California Highway Patrol released the first official report for Thanksgiving Holiday statistics concerning the state and the Los Angeles County.

From 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, five traffic deaths were reported statewide, compared  to the eight people who were killed in California last year, according to a CHP news release.

This year Los Angeles County had no reports of traffic deaths. Last year, there was one traffic death in the county.

Also in those 12 hours, CHP arrested 237 people on suspicion of drunken drivers throughout the state, compared to 318 last year, according to the news release.

There were 49 alleged DUI arrests in Los Angeles County this year, which dropped considerably from last year. In 2007, CHP made 80 alleged DUI arrests in the county.

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Hundreds of vehicles were screened and four people arrested during a DUI /driver's license checkpoint Friday night and early Saturday morning.

The checkpoint began at 8 p.m. at River Road and Bluff Street in Norco and ended at 3 a.m. Saturday, according to a Riverside County Sheriff's news release.

Deputies screened a total of 589 vehicles and gave 13 motorists field sobriety tests. Four of those motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

There were also 28 citations issued and five other motorists were arrested for outstanding misdemeanor warrants, according to the news release.

One person was arrested on suspicion of possessing controlled substances.

Additionally 24 vehicles were stored, 16 of which were impounded for 30 days.

The checkpoint was funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It was conducted by the Norco office of the sheriff's department and the Norco Citizen's Patrol.

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Witness testimony is underway today during a preliminary hearing for a Los Angeles man suspected in the DUI-related death of a 16-year-old Cajon High School student at a downtown intersection earlier this year.

Dwight Dalton Davis, 54, faces manslaughter charges in the death of Victoria Lemus, who had just finished having lunch with the Rotary Club when the collision occurred at Fifth and E streets, in San Bernardino.

Lemus, who was riding in a red Kia Sedona minivan, later died from her injuries at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, in Rialto. She had received a scholarship from the Rotary Club.

Police officers have started a year-long anti-DUI program that would help prevent deaths and injuries on the roads, officials said.

The department recently received a $171,000 grant from the Office of Traffic Safety New enforcement measures to stop impaired driving throughout the city, according to a police news release.

Officers will enforce DUI/driver's license checkpoints, warrant searches and stakeouts for repeat DUI offenders, as well as saturation patrols, and court stings.

The program is already in affect and checkpoints will start next month, Fontana Sgt. Jeff Decker said.

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