{"id":431404,"date":"2026-08-13T04:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431404\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:14:40","slug":"clovis-police-warn-of-upcoming-dui-checkpoint-and-steep-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431404\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis Police warn of upcoming DUI checkpoint and steep fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2014 The Clovis Police Department plans to conduct a DUI checkpoint Friday night at an undisclosed location in the city, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the checkpoint will be from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to police, DUI checkpoint locations are determined based on data showing incidents of impaired driving-related crashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpaired drivers put others on the road at significant risk,\u201d Sergeant Abby Padgett, Traffic Supervisor, said. \u201cAny prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improve traffic safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police say drivers charged with a first-time DUI face an average of $13,500 in fines and\u00a0penalties, as well as a suspended license<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2014 The Clovis Police Department plans to conduct a DUI checkpoint Friday night at an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-431404","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\/431404","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=431404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}