7 Arrested At DUI Checkpoint
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Seven people are arrested at a DUI sobriety checkpoint Saturday night.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Seven people were arrested at a DUI sobriety checkpoint Saturday night.
On Saturday night from the hours of 9:43 p.m. until the early morning hours of Sunday, the Franklin County DUI Taskforce conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Westerville Road, south of Innis Road, in Mifflin Township.
More than 700 vehicles drove through the checkpoint, resulting in seven people being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Almost 60 citations were issued, including 44 driver’s license violations and six seat-belt violations.
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7 arrests & 60 citations, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel!
People just keep getting dumber and dumber. If you have been drinking - don’t drive, if you don’t have a drivers license - don’t drive, if you don’t have insurance - don’t drive, if you don’t have your seat belt on and see a checkpoint up ahead - put on your seatbelt! It’s not rocket science people!
I have to agree with MightyPorthos, they were posted so that all the drunks could avoid them. I also have to agree with freewill88. we difinitely need to invest money towards having the necessary services available for DUI offenders, maybe an increase in fines over this matter would help set up such a program, especially since bars and clubs won’t be shut down any time soon.
How is a published DUI checkpoint a police state? If you are afraid of getting caught for driving drunk stay home! If you are dumb enough to get durnk and drive through a publicized checkpoint you deserve to be locked up. What kind of dolt do you have to be honestly? There is no irony in it at all. People use the 4th as an excuse to drink and get stupid….why would we not want extra police out protecting us? My sister died as a result of her own drunk driving. If she would have gone through a checkpoint maube she would be alive to see her grand babies. We will never know…...but the 7 people arrested are going to not miss out on seeing great things in their life because they were stopped. Kudos to the men and women running these checkpoints!
We are still living in a Police State it seems, even after we elected Obama. People need to stop going out and stimulating the economy! Stay home and have your fun!
On a holiday weekend where there is a lot of partying going on, I believe it would be more useful to spend resources on encouraging alternative transportation by providing additional bus hours and/or shuttles around town rather than the hammer-down approach of checkpoints. Just my opinion.
Two slackers leaving posts - great way to start a sunday. First, do you know how much manpower would be needed to set up a check point on 270? not to mention that it would impede traffic unnececessarily! That would be a horrible waste of resources and tax payer dollars. Secondly, it’s hard to be a police state when the checkpoint location and time is published in the dispatch on Friday.
they would have ben better to set up on 270 where they already had a wrong way driver and a fatality on the north end.
Highly ironic that they pulled this police-state stunt on Independence Day.
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