{"id":152054,"date":"2026-01-27T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152054\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:55:07","slug":"1-driver-arrested-5-more-cited-at-dui-checkpoint-in-long-beach-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152054\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Driver Arrested, 5 More Cited At DUI Checkpoint In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 One driver was arrested, and five more people were cited during a DUI checkpoint in Long Beach on Friday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/dui-checkpoint-on-jan.-23.-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1,290 vehicles passed through the checkpoint<\/a> at Pacific Coast Highway and 2nd Street, the Long Beach Police Department said, adding that 517 drivers\/vehicles were screened.<\/p>\n<p>One driver was arrested on a count of DUI, while five other drivers were cited for operating a vehicle unlicensed\/suspended, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary purpose of DUI\/CDL checkpoints are to promote public safety, increase awareness of the dangers associated with drinking and driving, and deter impaired and unlicensed\/suspended drivers,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 One driver was arrested, and five more people were cited during a DUI checkpoint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-152054","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\/152054","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=152054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}