24 people arrested for DUI by Petaluma police on Friday

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The police department in the Petaluma county has arrested 24 people on the charges of the DUI and issued more then 30 traffic law citations on Friday as part of a new campaign that targets drunk drivers. The police officers who handled the operation said that approximately 12 arrests were made and in those cases the people operating the vehicle had no license or suspended license. These vehicles were then impounded immidately. Also the arrests were made for other charges such as suspected drug violations and so on. The police department handling the DUI operation has indicated that out of 286 vehicles that were stopped 57 were evaluated for DUI charges.

The large pool of police officers on the scene involved some 35 or so officers from various agencies. Some of these agencies were Petaluma, Cotati, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Cloverdale and Sonoma State University, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol. This was probably one of the biggest DUI operations in the county thus far and is targeted at raising awareness among young drivers who tend to be more suspectible to drinking and driving.

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