Local News in Brief : 15 Arrested at Last of Weekly Drunk Checks
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Fifteen people were arrested on suspicion of drunk driving late Friday and early Saturday at what Los Angeles police say will be one of the last weekly sobriety checkpoints in the San Fernando Valley.
Valley Traffic Division Sgt. Joe Cross said police stopped 1,420 vehicles at the checkpoint set up at 9:30 p.m. Friday in Woodland Hills on Ventura Boulevard, between Alhama Drive and Comercio Way. Field sobriety tests were administered to 23 motorists and 15 were arrested before the checkpoint closed at 2:15 a.m. Saturday, Cross said.
Cross said the weekly checkpoints, which began four months ago, are not diminishing the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents, deaths and injuries and so will be discontinued after the Memorial Day weekend.
Ten people have died in alcohol-related traffic accidents in the Valley so far this year, compared to three deaths during the same period last year, Cross said.
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