{"id":279874,"date":"2026-04-22T06:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:52:23","slug":"sacramento-police-issue-dozens-of-citations-in-dui-checkpoint-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279874\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police issue dozens of citations in DUI checkpoint operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The Sacramento Police Department issued dozens of citations during their DUI and driver\u2019s license checkpoint operation on April 20 throughout Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>According to stats by the police department, officers screened 764 vehicles from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. yesterday. Police conducted 68 driver\u2019s license checks, resulting in 30 citations for suspended or unlicensed drivers over the six-hours. They also issued 20 citations for other violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improve traffic safety,\u201d Sergeant Anna Mahoney said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say DUI checkpoints are designed to improve public safety by identifying and removing drivers who may be impaired. First time DUI drivers can face up to $13,500 in fines and get their license suspended.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The Sacramento Police Department issued dozens of citations during their DUI and driver\u2019s license checkpoint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-279874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279874","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=279874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}