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Officers from Montgomery County Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday evening starting at 10 p.m., weather permitting. The enforcement is intended to curb impaired driving and underage. Police will not disclose the location of the checkpoint in advance. The police encourage county residents to drive responsibly and ride with a sober driver. Sobriety […]

Officers from Montgomery County Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday evening starting 8 p.m., weather permitting. The enforcement is intended to address two issues the police encounter during the fall and winter months. First, less daylight hours during the fall and winter can lead to more crashes between car drivers and pedestrians. Over […]

Officers from Montgomery County Police Department and Gaithersburg Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Saturday evening starting 10 p.m., weather permitting. The enforcement is intended to curb impaired driving and underage drinking. Police will not disclose the location of the checkpoint in advance. MCPD encourages county residents to drive responsibly and ride with a […]

El Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery está llevando a cabo un puesto de control de sobriedad el sábado por la noche a partir de las 10 p.m., si el clima lo permite. La medida está destinada a frenar la conducción deficiente y el consumo de alcohol por parte de menores. La policía no […]

Montgomery County Police Department is conducting a sobriety checkpoint Saturday evening starting 10 p.m., weather permitting. The enforcement is intended to curb impaired driving and underage drinking. Police will not disclose the location of the checkpoint in advance. MCPD encourages county residents to drive responsibly and ride with a sober driver.

Maryland State Police Trooper Anthony Wallace made more impaired driver arrests than any other state trooper in Maryland in 2018. On July 12, the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce presented Wallace with a Meritorious Service Citation for arresting 150 people who were driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol in Montgomery County and neighboring areas. […]

Maryland State Police continue to crack down on impaired drivers on state roads and troopers are sharing some stories and stats from this weekend’s State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort (SPIDRE). According to Police, a trooper with the Maryland State Police department’s impaired driving enforcement team actually had a drunk driver run into him, as […]