Police checkpoint nets 5 DUI suspects (Oceanside)
July 31, 2005 No CommentsBrian Hazle. The San Diego Union – Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jul 31, 2005. pg. B.2
OCEANSIDE — Officers cited 24 unlicensed motorists and arrested five drunken-driving suspects during a DUI checkpoint Friday night on Mission Avenue, police said.
Police stopped 364 of the 1,007 vehicles that passed through the checkpoint near North Coast Highway between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., police spokesman Leonard Mata said.
Officers impounded 29 vehicles for assorted traffic violations. The operation was among several periodic checkpoints in Oceanside paid for by a two-year, $343,000 grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the state Office of Traffic Safety.
