Crime & Safety

Anti-DUI Effort Yields Hundreds of Arrests Countywide

By City News Service

Police arrested 366 motorists suspected of drunken driving during a three-day countywide crackdown.

The "Avoid the 100 Los Angeles County DUI Campaign" -- a part of the Summer/Labor Day National Anti-DUI effort -- began at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ended midnight Saturday, according to a sheriff's department statement.

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During that same period in 2012, there were 391 drunken driving arrests during the same 48-hour time period, according to the news statement. Six of the arrests overnight were a result of crashes causing injury.

Today, there will be extra drunken driving saturation patrols and checkpoints deployed in multiple cities throughout Los Angeles County, according to the statement.

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