DUI Arrests, Convictions, and Laws

Of 627 vehicles screened, 40 were pulled over for further inspection, the sergeant said.

The DUI trailer was bought three years ago with $35,000 in grant money. It allows the Murrieta Police Department to store all of its checkpoint equipment in one place.

It also allows them to take suspected drunken drivers inside to have their blood tested out of the public eye.
It costs $8,000 to operate for one evening but is funded in total by the state Office of Traffic Safety, authorities said.

A checkpoint planned Dec. 17 by the Murrieta Police Department was canceled because of rain.

"The goal of the Murrieta Police Department is to reduce traffic related fatalities, injuries, and collisions through enforcement and education programs as well as reduce Driving Under the Influence (DUI) involved collisions," Froboese said.

Sacramento police conducting a DUI checkpoint at 21st Street and Capitol Avenue overnight Friday arrested three people, according to the department’s activity log. Police encountered 798 vehicles during the check. They screened 32 drivers for license violations, with 19 citations issued. Eight drivers were screened for possible impaired driving and officers had 14 vehicles towed.

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Heather DeLong, 47, of Glen Mills admitted to police responders at the 12:57 p.m. crash that she was speeding and lost control of her 2004 Chrysler Pacifica before hitting the police cruiser that was parked in the median along the southbound lane. She also admitted to drinking wine earlier.

Trooper Chad Burgwald, 24, of the Avondale Barracks, was trapped in his vehicle with serious injuries.

Rescuers had to cut apart the police cruiser to remove Burgwald for airlift to Crozer-Chester Medical Center for treatment.

A trooper at the barracks reported on Friday that Burgwald has multiple fractures to his pelvis, a broken collarbone and internal injuries as a result of the striking car impaling the cruiser by about 36 inches. The trooper added, however, that Burgwald is “conscious and alert.”

Thomas Wade Wedel, 42, of Hesston was arrested for DUI and reckless battery following a three-car accident which sent three people to the hospital Friday night.
Wedel, who was tested at .223 blood alcohol level via breath test, was driving a Honda Pilot northbound on South Kansas Ave./K-15 when his vehicle rear-ended a 2009 Toyota Yar driven by Anita Heckerman, 61, of Newton at the intersection of South Kansas and Southeast 14th Streets. The Yar in turn struck a 2005 Ford Expedition driven by Bradley Dalke, 46, of Blue Mound, Ill.
Wedel, however, didn’t stop at impact. According to the Newton Police Department, Wedel continued to drive southbound and pushed the Heckerman vehicle through the intersection.

Alvarez was arrested on suspicion of DUI, child endangerment and driving without a license and the children were released to their mother, who was also in the vehicle, CHP officials said.

Officers stopped the Nissan Xterra at 11:17 p.m. Friday on Santa Rosa Avenue for driving without headlights on and contacted the driver, 37-year-old Edmundo Molina.

Molina, a Danville resident, was in possession of drug paraphernalia that contained cocaine residue and was determined to be under the influence of cocaine and other drugs, CHP officials said.

At about 8:40 p.m. Sunday, an officer responded to Orion Drive in Windsor, where a woman had called to report that her husband drove drunk with her three children in the car.

One of the children, a 12-year-old girl, said she was injured when she struck her head on the passenger side window when the car swerved.

The mother told officers that her husband, Gaspar Lopez, was asleep in the bedroom. He was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI causing injury, child endangerment and driving with a suspended license, and was also found to have two prior convictions for DUI, CHP officials said.