Crime & Safety
Police: Sobriety Checkpoint Yields One Arrest
Arlington officers conducted checkpoint from 11 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday.
A resulted in a single arrest, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said told Patch.
The checkpoint was conducted by the Arlington County Police Department and the Arlington County Sheriff's Office.
Officers stopped more than 400 vehicles at the checkpoint, which was held Friday night in the southbound lane of George Mason Drive between 8th Street South and Columbia Pike. The checkpoint last from 11 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday.
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Motorists were asked for their driver's license, and anyone suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs was motioned to a nearby area off the road.
"Any time we can take even one drunk driver off the road, that's a success," Sternbeck said.
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Police would not release the specific location or time of Friday's checkpoint beforehand.
Arlington police made 13 additional DUI arrests over the weekend, Sternbeck said.
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