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Holiday Alcohol Task Force Enforcement Results – Week Five

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The officers of the Montgomery County Police Alcohol Holiday Task Force have been devoting their full time and attention to detecting alcohol-related offenses this holiday season.

• During this past week’s Task Force (December 14 to December 17), task force officers arrested 35 people for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs (DUI).  Note: This number includes arrests made during the sobriety checkpoint.

• A multi-agency sobriety checkpoint was conducted on the night of December 16 at Interstate 370 and Washingtonian Boulevard in Gaithersburg.  6 people were arrested for DUI during this sobriety checkpoint.  Agencies that participated in this checkpoint included the Montgomery County Police Department, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland State Police, the Gaithersburg Police Department, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, and Maryland Natural Resources Police.

• During the past 5 weeks of the Alcohol Holiday Task Force, task force officers have arrested 177 people for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

It should be noted that the above arrests include only those arrests made by task force officers and do not include the additional arrests made by patrol officers in the performance of their duties.  Therefore, the number of total DUI arrests made my MCP officers during this time period is higher.

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Release ID: 16-362
Media Contact: mcpnews 
Categories: impaired-driving