More than 1,500 People Arrested on DUI Charges Since Aug. 16 in L.A. County

Los Angeles County law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 1,500 people in the first 13 days of an end-of-summer anti-DUI campaign, the sheriff's department reports.

Provisional figures indicate that a total of 1,546 people were arrested on DUI charges between Aug. 16 and midnight Wednesday, according to an announcement by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.  That's a slight increase from 2012, during with 1,418 people were arrested during the same 13-day time span, the agency said.


Officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies made the arrests, as a part of the Avoid the 100 task force.  A special crackdown continues through this Labor Day weekend.

"For this Labor Day Holiday weekend, extra DUI saturation patrols and DUI checkpoints will be deployed in multiple cities in Los Angeles County," the sheriff's department announced.  "In addition, all regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts and the CHP will be deploying all available officers onto freeways and county roads during their Maximum Enforcement Period this weekend beginning 6:00 p.m. Friday."

The Labor Day DUI checkpoint and enforcement schedule continues as follows: 

Thursday, August 29 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD Southeast Area 
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Bellflower 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance 

Friday, August 30 
DUI Checkpoint – Inglewood 
DUI Checkpoint – Pasadena 
DUI Checkpoint – Redondo Beach 
DUI Checkpoint – Vernon 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP East Los Angeles 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP Santa Fe Springs 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - West Valley Area 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - 77th Street Area 
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Malibu 
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Norwalk 
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Glendora, Azusa, Irwindale, Covina, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Arcadia, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, and CHP 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance 
DUI Patrol – Pomona 
DUI Patrol – San Gabriel 
DUI Patrol – Whittier 

Saturday, August 31 
DUI Checkpoint – El Monte 
DUI Checkpoint – Long Beach 
DUI Checkpoint – San Gabriel 
DUI Checkpoint – Torrance 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP Antelope Valley 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Valley 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Rampart Area 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Northeast Area 
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Devonshire 
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance 
DUI Patrol – Pomona 
DUI Patrol – Whittier 
DUI Patrol – LAPD - 77th Street Area 

Sunday, September 1 
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles 
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance 
DUI Patrol – Pomona 
DUI Patrol – LAPD Southeast Area 

Monday, September 2 
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division 
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance 3