Monday, March 18, 2013
Howard County police increased patrols over St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
Howard County announced Monday that they arrested 21 people for driving under the influence during increased patrols over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. “Thankfully, we'll never know if one of those drivers might have injured himself or someone else, or worse,” officials wrote on the Howard County Police Department Facebook Page. Carroll County officials were also among the law enforcement agencies watching out for drivers under the influence over the holiday, officials reported Monday. Two drivers were arrested in Carroll County during a weekend sobriety checkpoint, law enforcement officials said. A sobriety checkpoint earlier this month in North Laurel netted five driver arrests, according to Howard County Police. See related posts: Five…
Monday, March 4, 2013
Police say 3 were charged with driving under the influence.
Five drivers were arrested late Saturday and early Sunday at a sobriety checkpoint on U.S. Route 1 in North Laurel, according to Howard County Police. Police say three people were charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, one for driving without a license, and one for driving on a suspended license. A total of 537 vehicles reportedly passed through the checkpoint, situated near Davis Avenue and staffed by members of the Howard County and Maryland State Police. Assistant was provided by the Howard County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Drivers were given an informational handout with DUI information, police said. The operation was part of the Checkpoint Strikeforce Campaign and was funded in part by a grant from the …
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Howard County Police confronted questions from the public on a planned sobriety checkpoint this weekend.
A routine press release from the Howard County Police Department on an upcoming sobriety checkpoint this weekend generated 89 shares, 64 “likes” and more than 25 comments on Facebook. What was all the fuss about? Reactions to the Tuesday post from the department ranged from worries about drinking and driving, texting and driving, to questioning why the police department had to inform the public prior to a sobriety checkpoint --- doesn’t that defeat the purpose? “I think it's stupid that the police [department] has to tell the public these things,” wrote Robin Maldonado-Shaw on the Howard County Police Department Facebook page. “You drink and drive you should go to jail! I know plenty of people who have just been slapped on the wrist yet …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Police say five were arrested for driving under the influence.
Five drivers were charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in a Howard County Police DUI checkpoint in Ellicott City on the weekend of Dec. 8. According to a statement from the department, nearly 650 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, on Route 40 westbound at the intersection of Governors Run Way in Ellicott City on the night of Dec. 8 and the early morning hours of Dec. 9. Members of the Howard County Police Department, the Howard County Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk driving (M.A.D.D), and the Maryland State Police staffed the checkpoint In addition to the five DUIs, police said in a statement that one driver was also arrested for driving with a suspended license. The sobriety checkpoints are used in conjunction with…
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Police said the holiday period has a high incidence of alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
Howard County Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location in the county this weekend. Police said the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's has a high incidence of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, with about 25 people per day being killed nationally in impaired-driving crashes. The checkpoint is one of several that have occurred throughout the year. A checkpoint on Route 1 in North Laurel in August netted five arrests and one in Columbia on MD 175 eastbound in March led to the arrest of two people. Twenty-five percent of the county's fatal collisions in 2011 were alcohol-related, according to police. In 2011, police arrested 1,391 individuals for driving under the influence. Sign up for the Columbia Patch…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Police checked licenses, sobriety in North Laurel.
Police arrested five people over the weekend during a sobriety checkpoint in North Laurel, according to a statement from the Howard County Police Department (HCPD). Between Friday night and Saturday morning, police said 690 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, which was on Route 1 northbound at Davis Avenue and staffed by Maryland State Police and HCPD. Three drivers, including one 18-year-old, were charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, said police. The teen was given an additional charge related to being underage, according to Sherry Llewellyn, spokeswoman for HCPD. Two people were arrested for driving on suspended licenses, said police. All drivers were provided with literature on the dangers of drinking and driving, …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Officers will check for alcohol, seatbelt compliance and use of child safety seats.
The Howard County Police will set up a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in the county this weekend, police said in a statement Wednesday. Police will be in marked and unmarked vehicles in a setting with lights and signage. While the department did not say where the checkpoint would be, it did say what officers will be looking for: The checkpoint is partially funded by a grant from the Maryland Highway Safety Office and falls under the Checkpoint Strikeforce, a multi-state initiative to take impaired drivers off the roads. This is the second DUI checkpoint this summer, after police arrested four people for driving under the influence on the Fourth of July. In Howard County, alcohol was involved in 25 percent of fatal crashes last year, …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Officers will check for alcohol, seatbelt compliance and use of child safety seats.
The Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday this year, but the Howard County Police Department is getting ready for early celebrations. In addition to ramping up patrols on July 4th, police will set up a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in the county during the weekend, police said in a statement Thursday. Police will be in marked and unmarked vehicles in a setting with lights and signage. While the department did not say where the checkpoint would be, it did say what officers will be looking for: The checkpoint is partially funded by a grant from the Maryland Highway Safety Office and falls under the Checkpoint Strikeforce, a multi-state initiative to take impaired drivers off the roads. In Howard County, alcohol was involved in 25 percent of …
Sunday, April 1, 2012
If you want to know where the police are on the hunt for drunk drivers, all you need to do is download an app, and Maryland's Attorney General wants to put a stop to it.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
By Capital News Service Sobriety checkpoints are a frequently used method to catch drivers who've had a little too much to drink. But as CNS-TVs Deanna LeBlanc found out, you can now keep track of those checkpoints with a mobile phone app. That has the state's top law officer fighting back.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Howard County and Maryland State Police arrested four drivers as a result of a sobriety checkpoint on MD 175.
Police said they arrested two drivers for driving under the influence of alcohol during a scheduled sobriety checkpoint in Columbia from Saturday night into early Sunday. Officers from Howard County and Maryland State Police set up a checkpoint on eastbound MD 175 at Columbia Gateway Drive, where 858 vehicles drove by. Police pulled over seven vehicles for further examination, according to Howard County Police Department spokesperson Bryce Buell. In addition to two DUI arrests, police said one driver was arrested for a drug violation and another was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Howard County sobriety checkpoints are funded in part by a grant from the Maryland Highway Safety Office and are part of the Checkpoint …
erin yingling
8:15 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
My thoughts exactly Billy Duvall! Our neighborhood was hit hard with break ins. My car was one. more ›