Authorities: Weekend DUI Arrests Increase Over Last Year

From City News Service and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department The annual Avoid the 100 winter holiday crackdown on intoxicated driving in Los Angeles County has resulted in the arrests of 926 suspected drunken drivers, authorities said Sunday. The arrests were made between 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 13 and midnight Sunday. During the same eight-day period a year ago, there were 846 DUI arrests made by Avoid the 100, authorities said. The Avoid the 100 campaign will include dozens of sobriety/driver's license checkpoints and more than 200 "roving DUI saturation patrols" in various areas of the county, and will continue through New Year's Day. There were three major injury collisions over the weekend in Manhattan Beach and South and Central Los Angeles that were attributed to drunk driving, authorities said. Avoid the 100 is named for the 100 participating law enforcement agencies. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has posted future DUI checkpoints and patrols starting Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, 2014: Friday, December 27 •Checkpoint – El Monte •Checkpoint – Hawthorne •Checkpoint – Pasadena (tentative) •Checkpoint – San Gabriel •Checkpoint – LAPD 77th Street Area •Checkpoint – LAPD West Valley Area •Checkpoint – LASD Industry •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (Glendora, Azusa, Covina, Irwindale, Pomona, La Verne, and Claremont) •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (Arcadia, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre) •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (Glendale, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Fernando, Burbank) •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa •Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance) •DUI Patrol – Bell Gardens Saturday, December 28 •Checkpoint – Arcadia •Checkpoint – San Gabriel •Checkpoint – Whittier •DUI Patrol – Signal Hill •Checkpoint – LAPD Devonshire Area •Checkpoint – LAPD Central Area •Checkpoint – LAPD Hollywood Area •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (Glendale, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Fernando, Burbank) •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa •Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance) •DUI Patrol – Long Beach •DUI Patrol – Redondo Beach •DUI Patrol – CHP South Los Angeles Area •DUI Patrol – LAPD West Valley Sunday, December 29 •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa •Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance) •DUI Patrol – West Covina Monday, December 30 •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa •Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance) Tuesday, December 31 •MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division (beginning at 6:01 pm) •DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 Multi Agency (El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa •Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance) •DUI Patrol – Arcadia •DUI Patrol – LASD Bellflower •DUI Patrol – Pomona Wednesday, January 1 •MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division