DUI crackdown nabs 287
In a winter holiday crackdown brightened by a zero in the DUI fatality column, police officers, sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers from Avoid the 14 Campaign in Ventura County brought in 287 DUI suspects.
On January 1, 2007, Big Island police arrested five motorists for drunk driving. Three of the drivers were under the age of 21. There have been five DUI arrests so far this year compared with four during the same period last year, an increase of 25 percent.