{"id":276593,"date":"2026-04-20T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276593\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:43:23","slug":"sacramento-police-set-up-dui-checkpoint-for-those-who-drive-high-on-4-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276593\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police set up DUI checkpoint for those who drive high on 4\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Sacramento Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Sacramento Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"290\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4adabbe0-bc2a-11ec-adff-74a3b08b0cf3.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, April 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/972aca83f76b3d526d223de30535690d.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Those who planned to celebrate 4\/20 by using cannabis should not get behind the wheel Monday \u2014 or any other day of the year, Sacramento police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Police Department planned to conduct a DUI and driver\u2019s license checkpoint from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday at an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Anna Mahoney, a spokesperson for the agency, said impaired drivers put others at risk on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improve traffic safety,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SacPolice\/status\/2045960104860954792\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:In a post on X,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">In a post on X,<\/a> the department said checkpoint locations were based on data showing where crashes involving impaired driving occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary purpose of DUI checkpoints are to promote public safety by taking suspected impaired drivers off the road,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers charged with a first-time DUI face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, along with a suspended license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, April 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC Those who planned to celebrate 4\/20 by using cannabis should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[119598,119597,37750,121,123,122,9123],"class_list":["post-276593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-anna-mahoney","tag-checkpoint-locations","tag-dui-checkpoints","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276593","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=276593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}