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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.

Over the past five weeks, Montgomery County Police’s Alcohol Holiday Task Force arrested 208 people for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. The task force not only consists of officers from six police districts, it also includes Maryland State Police troopers, Montgomery County sheriff deputies, officers from the Gaithersburg Police Department, as well […]

The Montgomery County Police Department is again reminding motorists to have a plan, drive responsibly and choose a sober driver. Tonight officers from the Montgomery County police, deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and troopers from the Maryland State Police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint. This enforcement is a component of the department’s […]

To continue their efforts to curb impaired driving and underage drinking, law enforcement officers from the Montgomery County Police Department, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and the Maryland State Police, are conducting a sobriety checkpoint. The location of the checkpoint anticipated for Friday April 6, has not been disclosed and is expected to begin at […]

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Thanksgiving is the deadliest holiday on our roads. Over 800 people died nationwide in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday period from 2012 to 2016. The night before Thanksgiving has become known as “Drinksgiving” because of the binge drinking done by college students and others, home […]

During the Halloween weekend people may choose to celebrate and drink alcohol. The Montgomery County Police Department is again reminding motorists to have a plan, drive responsibly, and choose a sober driver. On Oct. 27, officers from the Montgomery County Police, deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and troopers from Maryland State Police will […]