By Dailly Press staff
A DUI checkpoint over the weekend netted six citations, but no drunk driving arrests.
The Santa Monica Police Department stopped 130 vehicles in the 2900 block of Olympic Boulevard on Friday, March 12.
The checkpoint was funded by a state office of traffic safety law enforcement grant.
The SMPD issued six citations for a variety of vehicle code offenses, police said. A total of 580 vehicles drove through the checkpoint and more than 100 vehicles were stopped in a five-hour period.
The grant, called “CRE- ATE — Community Resource, Education and Traffic Enforcement” is designed to improve traffic safety in the community. The goals of the program are educating and bringing awareness to the community, while at the same time detecting and removing drunk and irresponsible drivers from the roadways.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 16, 2004. Read the original PDF.