Wyomissing police put up a drunken-driving checkpoint in the evening of Sept. 4 at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Park Road in the borough. In addition to the 25 traffic warnings and 12 citations issued, officers arrested three on suspicion of drunken driving, two on drug charges and two for allegedly drinking underage. The arrests included the following:
• At 1:19 a.m. Sept. 5 a vehicle was stopped for tinted windows but the officer spotted drugs in the vehicle as well. The driver was taken to the DUI center for a blood-alcohol test. Police found $1,400 in cash, three cell phones and a marijuana “shake” in the vehicle.
• A driver failed field sobriety tests at 1:44 a.m. Police found the driver’s blood-alcohol level to be 0.083 percent and took the driver to the DUI center for testing.
• A vehicle that was stopped at 1:48 a.m. for expired registration was occupied by two people who weren’t 21 and had been drinking. They were cited.
One man wasn’t even driving when police stopped him after the checkpoint shut down. At 2:22 a.m. officers noticed a young man loitering around vehicles parked in front of the police station. The suspect, who wasn’t yet 21, had been drinking, the officers noticed.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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Hey I got an idea they should put some of these checkpoints around the inner circle.
ReplyDeleteGood idea! The test can be, if you can actually make it around the circle, you must be sober.
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