Monday, August 10, 2009

Holiday DUI crackdown nets 25 arrests in West Valley

Police arrested 25 drunk drivers and handed out nearly 150 citations during a West Valley DUI crackdown at the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend.
Thirty officers hit West Valley streets from 7 p.m. last Friday night until 3 a.m. Saturday, with a concentration on Glendale. They arrested 16 drivers for misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence, one driver for aggravated DUI and eight drivers for extreme DUI.
All told, task force officers from the Glendale, Peoria, El Mirage and Tolleson police departments and the Arizona Department of Public Safety made 206 traffic stops and issued 148 citations, Glendale police Sgt. Jim Cunningham said.

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