{"id":44673,"date":"2025-11-09T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:00:08","slug":"multiple-motorists-arrested-at-pacific-beach-dui-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44673\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple motorists arrested at Pacific Beach DUI checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0.DUI1_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0.DUI1_.jpg\" alt=\"An orange sign shaped like a diamond reads, &quot;DUI\/Driver's license checkpoint ahead.&quot; It stands in a traffic lane with orange cones lined up behind it.\" class=\"wp-image-343333\"  \/><\/a>A sign at a San Diego County DUI checkpoint. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested\u00a0nine motorists on suspicion of driving under the influence at a checkpoint in Pacific Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and deputies from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdsheriff.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/police.ucsd.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC San Diego Police Department<\/a> conducted the DUI\/driver\u2019s license checkpoint in the 2400 block of Grand Avenue. It ended at 2:30 a.m. Friday. after beginning late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 944 vehicles that drove through the checkpoint, 589 vehicles were screened and 22 drivers were evaluated, police said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the nine DUI arrests, one driver was cited or arrested for allegedly operating a vehicle without a license or while it was suspended or revoked. Ten vehicles were impounded, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police said checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity to deter drunk and drugged driving.<\/p>\n<p>The effort was funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sign at a San Diego County DUI checkpoint. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) Police arrested\u00a0nine motorists on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29555,29510,74,18334,76,75,9862,5729],"class_list":["post-44673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-dui-arrests","tag-dui-checkpoint","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-uc-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44673","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=44673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}