SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA - Sacramento County's Avoid the Capital 15 Campaign to get impaired drivers off the road over the holidays netted a preliminary 395 arrests for driving under the influence, according to a police spokesman for the task force.
There was also one suspected DUI-related death in Walnut Grove on Jan. 2, according to Sgt. Brian Winsor with the Elk Grove Police Department.
The crackdown began Dec. 18, at 12:01 a.m. and continued through Jan 3, midnight. Officers with law enforcement agencies throughout the county conducted a number of sobriety checkpoints and special saturation patrols during the campaign as well as routine patrols in Sacramento County.
Winsor said there were 526 DUI arrests over the same holiday period in 2008.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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