DUI arrests up 31 percent in Sonoma County

In the City of Sonoma, DUI arrests have gone up from 3 last year to 5 this year over the Christmas holiday. Those statistics are tracked as part of the AVOID campaign, a cooperative effort of law enforcement personnel from around the Bay Area. It began December 14 and ends at midnight New Years Day.
County-wide, 140 DUI suspects have been arrested so far in the 19-day holiday crackdown against drinking drivers. This increase represents a 31 percent increase over the same period last year. CHP cruisers will again flood the freeways starting this Friday night and ending on New Year’s Day, with nearly all available officers assigned to the road during the CHP’s maximum enforcement period.
The City of Sonoma will not set up check points, said Sergeant Dave Thompson of the Sonoma Police Department, “but we know this is a high volume time for drunk drivers, so we’ll be on the lookout for them.”