Crime & Safety
Milpitas DUI Arrests Nets 8 to Date in Summer Campaign
A DUI checkpoint is planned for Saturday, Sept. 1 in Milpitas.
Police in Milpitas have reported eight DUI arrests so far in a stepped-up effort focusing on the national end-of-summer/Labor Day campaign against drunken driving.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which coordinates the "Avoid the 13" drunk driving campaigns throughout the year, have reported 215 arrests from 15 law enforcement agencies in the county since the summer/Labor Day campaign began Aug. 17.
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DUI checkpoints will be conducted on Saturday September 1, in the cities of Milpitas and San Jose. Extra DUI units called "saturation patrols will be deployed in the cities of: Campbell, Milpitas, Los Altos, Mountain View, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Gilroy, Sunnyvale, Morgan Hill, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Altos Hills, and the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.
Arrests made in Los Altos Hills, Cupertino and Saratoga are handled by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, or the California Highway Patrol, and figures from those agencies are not broken down by city.
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Here are the latest totals:
Agency
Aug. 17
Aug. 18
Aug. 19
Aug. 20
Aug. 21
Aug. 22
Aug. 23
Aug. 24
Aug. 25
Aug. 26Total
Campbell PD
0
1
1
NR
0
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR2
CHP - Gilroy
4
5
9
1
NR
NR
0
3
2
29
CHP – San Jose
6
7
12
1
3
6
5
3
3
854
Gilroy PD
2
1
2
0
1
0
1
1
3
314
Los Altos PD
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
3
NR5
Los Gatos PD
2
0
0
NR
1
NR
NR
0
0
03
Milpitas PD
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
2
0
8
Morgan Hill PD
0
2
1
1
0
1
0
5
6
117
Mountain View PD
2
2
3
0
1
1
0
2
1
416
Palo Alto PD
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
02
San Jose PD
9
10
7
2
1
2
2
6
544
Santa Clara PD
2
0
0
1
NR
NR
NR
2
1
16
Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office
2
0
1
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
14
Sunnyvale PD
0
1
1
1
0
1
4
1
NR
110
San Jose State U.
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR0
Cumulative
49
90
103
113
124
136
158
183
215
Daily Total
29
20
41
13
10
11
12
22
25
31
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