15 DWIs @ 1 checkpoint in 1 night!!

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150 Ticketed, 15 Drunk Drivers Arrested In DWI Checkpoint - Fifteen drunk drivers were arrested in a matter of hours Saturday night during one of the largest DWI checkpoints in Johnston County ’s history. Thirty officers from seven departments participated in the checkpoint on Highway 70 at Swift Creek Road in Wilson ’s Mills. Police Chief Steve Little said 150 others were ticketed by 30 law officers. Among those arrested was a wanted person. Other offenses ranged from driving on a revoked license to not wearing a seat belt. “This whole project took at least 15 people off the road that didn’t have any business driving," Chief Little said. Highway Patrol Sgt. M.J. Rivenbark added the checkpoint was very important. “This is a good example of the Patrol and local agencies working together to make the roadways safe.” Along with the Highway Patrol and Wilson ’s Mills Police, officers from Selma , Clayton, Kenly, Pine Level, and Princeton also participated in the DWI Checkpoint. The states Batmobile, a mobile breathalyzer unit, was brought to the scene, along with Johnston County Magistrate Bethany Hales, who set bonds at the scene for those who were arrested. http://www.1270wmpm.com/wmpm_local_news.htm

 

Wow, that certainly was a productive venture on their part. . . 150 ticketed in a matter of hours is a lot of bang for your buck!

 

:shock: So at least 15 people were driving drunk in a matter of hours on Hwy 70?? Maybe I will just stay home from now on!

 

Good!!


Get em.

 

It depends on how many of them are kin to Johnston county police officers and or judges..Ask people who are from around here who are kin to some of the police and judges and they will brag about the stuff they get away with.

 

That's what I'm thinking!

 

I agree. Stuff like that irritates me. So, just because you are related to somebody in law enforcement means you are above the law?? You drive safer than I do when speeding/drinking/etc because of your bloodline/wedding vows?

 

Its sick , but happens everyday here. Always has thats why hate to admit but next election I'm voting for some people who are not johnston county natives.I think the laws should be the same for everyone.Thats why you always here law enforcements family member was charged with such in such but you never here what they were sentenced too.They always get out of it.

 

That's great. I'm glad they got drunks off the roads, but the method is despicable. Why don't we just round up everyone coming out of White Oak Cinemas and run their identities against a list of known criminals? We could also round up everyone coming out of Wal-Mart and check their pockets for shoplifted merchandise. A police state would be so much safer than a free society.

 

nothing satisfies

Wow, you're glad to see the drunk drivers off the road but hate the way they did it? How would you suggest they catch drunk drivers? If 15 DWI'as were caught and 150 people were cited then I would say that their method was warranted. For those who say EVERYONE related to Johnston Co. law enforcement or judges gets away with everything, do you have anything besides anecdotal evidence to back this up? :?:

 

I suggest that from 2:00 am until 4:00 am ONLY drunks are allowed on the highways and left strictly alone.

Thin the herd.

 

Are you so ignorant of the principles of liberty that you don't realize you just answered your own question?

I had a friend killed by a drunk driver. I want drunks off the road, but not bad enough to want police checkpoints. I understand we could be seeing many more of these checkpoints in the future and that is not something a freedom-loving society should tolerate. I don't have anything against profiling, watching for swerving drivers, or staking out bars for drunks getting behind the wheel ...but random road blocks are a throwback to the Cold War communist tactics of East Berlin.

 

Well that makes no sense, you want the drunks off the road but you dont want police check points? What do you want them to do get a head count of who is going to go out drinking and driving tonight? Maybe we could get a survey started on here so we all know who will be drinking and driving. I too have lost people that I love to drunk drivers and I am a police officers wife, so to me it seems like road blocks are helping a little, my god they got how many people off the road that night?

 

good thing we have some statesman left.......or else we would have no liberties. Just because a check point works does not mean it should be allowed.

 

Communist??? were communist allowed to drive??? LOL

I wish when my friend was killed by a drunk driver there was a check point set up and they arrested the person that killed my friend before the accident happened. If you are doing no wrong, have insurance, license are good, and you are not legally drunk then there is no reason to really care about going thru one. It insures the safety of others... just like the airline makes everyone go thru a check point... it is all for the good of us...

 

[QUOTE=dawn2376;176511]Communist??? were communist allowed to drive??? LOL

It insures the safety of others... just like the airline makes everyone go thru a check point... it is all for the good of us...[/QUOTE]


Good point, how about when you leave a store and have to walk thru a metal detector is that a communist thing too?

 

When we lived in TN, they were so short of jurors one day they were stopping people as they came off the interstate exit ramp in Sullivan county and asking if you were a Sullivan County resident. If the answer was "yes" you were immediately ordered to go to the court house for jury duty! I was thankful I chose to take the back road home that day.:shock: I believe that little incident made the national news. I wondered about the legality of it at the time.

 

That is private property and therefore the decision of the property owner. That is a far FAR cry from Communism.

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And so is a DWI or license check point........

 

Some rental car companies are already attempting that, and are finning people for speeding and so on (legal issues have been raised with that) and I do not agree with that much invasion.
I think you need to be caught red handed... but I am ok with the check point which do "catch you" so to speak red handed, I have seen them take illegeal immigrants that were not legal to drive off the road, and drunks off the raod. No I do not love pulling up to one, but I think they are ok if it may just save one life. There were 15 cited for driving under the influence.... and having them off the road might of saved just one life or 15 lives, so I guess that is why I am ok with the check points because we have so many ignorant people that are not smart enough to not drink and drive... and it is not worth loosing a life. It may be a little extreme but it beats the alternative for right now.