{"id":155761,"date":"2026-04-02T22:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155761\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:15:16","slug":"dui-checkpoints-set-in-pennsylvania-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155761\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI checkpoints set in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 State police announced DUI checkpoints will be placed across various roadways in Pennsylvania during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Pennsylvania State Police, sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols aim to deter drinking and driving. Police say they are operating with a \u201czero-tolerance enforcement policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say checkpoints will be placed on roadways during the Easter weekend that are experiencing high rates of DUI-related traffic violations and DUI-related crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The counties participating in the DUI checkpoints are as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PSP did not give details on the areas where the patrols will be conducted. State police encourage those who are out and choose to consume alcohol to not drive a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials warn drivers Pennsylvania\u2019s DUI laws issue a legal limit of .08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC). DUI offenses can range from a $300 fine and six months of probation to fines of $5,000 and prison sentences of up to 5 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 State police announced DUI checkpoints will be placed across various roadways in Pennsylvania during the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18837,26054,38588,38587,28,30,29,1224,38586,487],"class_list":{"0":"post-155761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-dui","9":"tag-dui-checkpoints","10":"tag-dui-laws","11":"tag-dui-offenses","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","16":"tag-sobriety-checkpoints","17":"tag-state-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}