{"id":248732,"date":"2026-05-30T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:24:11","slug":"new-york-state-police-issue-over-11000-tickets-during-memorial-day-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248732\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police issue over 11,000 tickets during Memorial Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York State Police say they issued 11,104 tickets during the Memorial Day Weekend enforcement campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/state-police-issue-over-900-182524529.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:State Police issue over 900 tickets across NYS as part of work zone safety campaign;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;State Police issue over 900 tickets across NYS as part of work zone safety campaign&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Police issue over 900 tickets across NYS as part of work zone safety campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The enforcement period ran from Friday, May 22 through Monday, May 25, and included sobriety checkpoints and additional DWI patrols. During that time, troopers arrested 211 people for DWI and investigated 693 crashes, four of which were fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Across the state, the following tickets were issued:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Distracted Driving \u2014 338<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Seatbelt violations \u2014 1,742<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Western New York, troopers arrested six people for DWI and issued the following tickets:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Districted Driving \u2014 28<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Child Restraint and Seat Belt \u2014 206<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During last year&#8217;s campaign, troopers issued 12,062 tickets and arrested 245 people for DWI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police say they issued 11,104 tickets during the Memorial Day Weekend enforcement campaign. RELATED: State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44507,97151,9,11,10,49,51,50,56154,5178],"class_list":["post-248732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dwi","tag-enforcement-campaign","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-sobriety-checkpoints","tag-western-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}