{"id":68583,"date":"2025-11-25T03:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68583\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:23:22","slug":"6-arrested-during-bakersfield-police-checkpoint-on-union-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68583\/","title":{"rendered":"6 arrested during Bakersfield police checkpoint on Union Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Six people were placed under arrest after Bakersfield police held a DUI checkpoint on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department held a checkpoint between 6 p.m. and 12 a.m. on Nov. 21, in the 200 block of Union Avenue. Officers screened 1,182 vehicles during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the operation, 12 drivers were detained for further questioning, 19 were cited for driving without a license and six drivers were cited for operating a vehicle with a suspended license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of 31 vehicles seized at the checkpoint, 21 of them were impounded and 10 were released to licensed drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The public is encouraged to help keep roadways safe by\u00a0calling 911 if they see a suspected impaired driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Six people were placed under arrest after Bakersfield police held a DUI checkpoint on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,37751,29510,328,23789],"class_list":["post-68583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-checkpoint","tag-dui-checkpoint","tag-kget","tag-union-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68583","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=68583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}