{"id":368396,"date":"2026-07-10T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368396\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:23:14","slug":"austin-fourth-of-july-enforcement-leads-to-3-dwi-arrests-and-38-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368396\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Fourth of July enforcement leads to 3 DWI arrests and 38 citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 Police made three DWI arrests and issued dozens of citations and warnings during a stepped-up enforcement effort over the Fourth of July holiday period, the Austin Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s &#8220;Drive Sober, No Regrets&#8221; initiative, which included increased DWI enforcement and a &#8220;No Refusal&#8221; component, ran nightly from June 19 through July 6, APD said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers dedicated 40 hours to traffic enforcement during the initiative, resulting in 38 traffic citations, 59 warnings and three DWI arrests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-boost-dwi-enforcement-ahead-of-fourth-of-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Austin police boost DWI enforcement ahead of Fourth of July<\/a><\/p>\n<p>APD said additional officers were deployed during the enforcement period to make traffic stops aimed at encouraging safe driving behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Under the No Refusal component, officers can seek search warrants for blood samples from DWI suspects who decline to provide a breath or blood specimen, as required by law, the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police made three DWI arrests and issued dozens of citations and warnings during a stepped-up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-368396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}