Crime & Safety
DUI Checkpoints Hit Sierra Madre Labor Day Weekend
In addition to Sierra Madre, there will be DUI checkpoints in other nearby areas, including Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, and Monrovia.
Starting Friday and going through Labor Day, there will be DUI checkpoints and patrols throughout LA County.
Los Angeles County's Avoid the 100 DUI Task Force joins law enforcement agencies throughout the state for the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.
The annual summer campaign targets the spike in DUIs and alcohol-related car accidents during the summer months, according to an Avoid the 100 press release.
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Local law enforcement agencies, as well as the California Highway Patrol, will be “aggressively looking” for impaired drivers during a two-week period that ends on Labor Day.
Labor Day Weekend DUI and Patrol Schedule
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Friday, Aug. 31
DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Glendale, South Pasadena, Pasadena, Burbank, San Marino, and San Fernando), West Covina
Friday, Aug. 31
DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo and Torrance), Glendale, LASD Bellflower, South L.A., CHP, East L.A., Altadena, Santa Fe Springs, Antelope Valley
DUI Patrol – Gardena
Saturday, Sept. 1
DUI Checkpoint –Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency – (Including officers from Baldwin Park, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Arcadia and Sierra Madre), CHP West Valley, LAPD – Central Area
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Conducted in the cities of Glendale, South Pasadena, Pasadena, Burbank, San Marino, and San Fernando), Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Monterey Park, Alhambra, San Gabriel,
Montebello, Downey, Whittier and Bell Gardens), Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates,
Redondo and Torrance), Gardena, Glendale, Long Beach, LASD location TBD
Sunday, Sept. 2
DUI Patrol - Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency – (Including officers from Baldwin Park, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Arcadia and Sierra Madre), Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo and Torrance), Gardena, LAPD – Hollenbeck Area
Monday, Sept. 3
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division, LASD location TBD
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