{"id":145178,"date":"2026-01-22T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:44:07","slug":"dui-checkpoint-planned-in-long-beach-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145178\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI Checkpoint Planned In Long Beach This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department will hold a driving under the influence checkpoint in the East Division area Friday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The location is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/dui-checkpoint-on-jan.-23.-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">based on data showing incidents<\/a> of impaired driving-related crashes,\u201d police said, adding that DUI checkpoints are held to \u201cpromote public safety by taking suspected impaired drivers off the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpaired drivers put others on the road at significant risk,\u201d Commander Jeremy Boshnack said in a written statement. \u201cAny prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improve traffic safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Impaired driving is not just from alcohol, according to police. Drivers taking certain prescription and over-the-counter drugs may also become impaired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile medicinal and recreational marijuana are legal, driving under the influence of marijuana is illegal,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers facing a DUI charge for the first time \u201cface an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, as well as a suspended license,\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department will hold a driving under the influence checkpoint in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-145178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}