{"id":215173,"date":"2026-06-10T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:34:11","slug":"pa-state-police-conducting-dui-checkpoint-this-weekend-in-lehigh-county-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215173\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. State Police conducting DUI checkpoint this weekend in Lehigh County | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. &#8211; The Pennsylvania State Police Troop M \u2013 Fogelsville are conducting a Driving Under the Influence checkpoint that will be conducted between Friday, June 12 and Sunday, June 14 within Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>A sobriety checkpoint is a traffic safety checkpoint where troopers systematically stop vehicles at selected locations to briefly observe drivers for signs of alcohol or drug impairment, according to a news release from state police.<\/p>\n<p>State police say the goal of a sobriety checkpoint is to reduce the number of alcohol and drug related fatal and serious crashes, and to reduce the number of DUI drivers on Pennsylvania\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n<p>The sobriety checkpoint will help achieve the goal of maintaining a safe environment for the public, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania law says any driver who willfully fails or refuses to bring their vehicle to a stop, or who otherwise flees or attempts to elude a pursuing police officer, can be charged with a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>MIf convicted, people face a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, a $15,000 fine, and restitution for damages and\/or injuries sustained as a result of the pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. &#8211; The Pennsylvania State Police Troop M \u2013 Fogelsville are conducting a Driving Under the Influence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,41637,433,1224,38061,5831],"class_list":["post-215173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dui-checkpoint","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-sobriety-checkpoint","tag-traffic-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215173","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=215173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}