{"id":211800,"date":"2026-03-09T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:54:19","slug":"five-arrested-for-dui-at-fresno-checkpoint-26-unlicensed-drivers-cited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211800\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested for DUI at Fresno checkpoint; 26 unlicensed drivers cited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Five people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence during a DUI checkpoint on Saturday in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoint was located at Maple Avenue and Cesar Chavez Boulevard from 9 p.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/five-arrested-after-alcohol-and-gun-tossed-from-car-during-traffic-stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five arrested after alcohol and a gun were tossed from the car during a traffic stop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checkpoint locations are selected based on reported incidents of impaired driving-related crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Police contacted 285 vehicles during the 7-hour operation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the DUI arrests, 26 drivers were cited for operating a vehicle without a license or with a suspended or revoked license.<\/p>\n<p>The primary purpose of DUI checkpoints is to promote public safety by taking suspected impaired drivers off the road.<\/p>\n<p>The next DUI enforcement operation will be a DUI saturation patrol scheduled for this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the checkpoint was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Five people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence during a DUI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-211800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211800","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=211800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}