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    UNLICENSED DRIVERS GET CARS TOWED : A BUSY WEEK



    Five arrested on suspicion of drunken driving

    ( 55 CARS IMPOUNDED )

    By: North County Times
    Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:14 PM PST

    ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA ---- Police arrested five drivers on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol Friday night at a checkpoint at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Fig Street, according to police.

    Police also confiscated 55 vehicles because their drivers reportedly did not have a valid driver's license, and one driver was arrested on suspicion of auto theft, authorities said.

    The checkpoint was set up from 6:30 p.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

    The Escondido Police Department said 82 citations were issued at the checkpoint, designed to detect intoxicated and unlicensed drivers and provide a highly visible operation to deter people from driving under the influence of alcohol.

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    Police confiscate 55 vehicles at checkpoint

    2:04 p.m. December 22, 2007

    SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – A police checkpoint in Escondido caught five suspected drunken drivers, police said Saturday. And 55 vehicles were confiscated because their drivers did not have a valid drivers licenses.
    In addition, one driver was arrested for auto theft when he drove into the area with a stolen vehicle, police said.

    The checkpoint was set up at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Fig Street from 6:30 p.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
    The Escondido Police Department said a total of 82 citations were issued at the checkpoint, designed to detect intoxicated and unlicensed drivers and provide a highly visible operation to deter driving under the influence.

    Immigrants rights groups have complained that the Escondido police are depriving hard-working people of their cars by conducted the checkpoints, but the police said they are merely enforcing state traffic laws.

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    One arrested at Carlsbad checkpoint

    By: North County Times

    Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:51 PM PST

    CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA - One driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and 21 vehicles were towed because the drivers were unlicensed or uninsured at a checkpoint Friday night, according to police.

    A total of 2,129 cars passed through the checkpoint, which was held on Palomar Airport Road, east of El Camino Real, authorities said.

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    Tis the season for celebrating eh ...... thats why I no longer go out risking my life with undocumented drunks all over the place... they work hard and play even harder
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    Two arrested at Encinitas checkpoint

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    Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:08 PM PST

    ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA - Sheriff's deputies in Encinitas arrested two people on suspicion of drunken driving during a checkpoint operation between 8 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday, according to the Sheriff's Department.

    The checkpoint, in the 1300 block of South Coast Highway 101, had a total of 553 vehicles drive through, authorities said.

    Deputies gave 10 field sobriety tests and, in addition to the two alleged drunken drivers, arrested one person for allegedly being drunk in public, police said.

    One person was cited for not having a license and another was cited for driving on a suspended license, authorities said

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    12 arrested at vehicle checkpoint

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    Sunday, December 16, 2007

    VISTA, CALIFORNIA ---- A dozen drivers suspected of drunken driving were arrested at a Sheriff's department checkpoint that started at 8 p.m. Saturday.

    By the time the checkpoint on East Vista Way had closed at 2 a.m. Sunday, 88 citations had been written, sheriff's officials said. The majority of citations, 49, were written for driving without a license.
    Other offenses that earned citations included driving without a license in possession, driving with a suspended license and failing to obey child safety belt laws.

    Officials said that of the 1,435 vehicles to arrive at the checkpoint, 733 were randomly inspected

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    Escondido police cite 26 at traffic checkpoints

    By: North County Times

    Tuesday, December 18, 2007

    ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA -- Twenty-six motorists were cited Monday during two separate traffic checkpoints targeting drivers that are not legally licensed, Escondido police said.
    A total of 766 vehicles passed through the first checkpoint, which was held between 9 and 11 a.m. at the intersection of Mission Avenue and Dan Way, Lt. Tom Albergo said.

    Officers checked the license of each motorist, and 15 vehicles were impounded because the drivers did not have a valid license, Albergo said.


    The second checkpoint was held between noon and 2 p.m. on Washington Avenue at Kaile Lane. Of the 434 vehicles that passed through, 11 drivers were cited and their vehicles impounded because they lacked a valid license, Albergo said.

    No arrests were made at either checkpoint.

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    Two traffic accidents fatal

    A Clovis woman and a Mendota man were killed in separate traffic accidents in the county, the Fresno County Coroner's Office reported Friday.

    Meghan Fuller and Sergio Sierras, both 26, died.

    Fuller was killed about 1:30 a.m. Friday when a pickup she was driving ran off the road and hit a power pole on McCall Avenue north of Shaw Avenue east of Clovis. Fuller, who reportedly was en route home a few miles away, was declared dead at the scene.

    The other accident was reported at 11 p.m. Thursday at Gomez and Lozano streets in a north Mendota neighborhood. Sierras, also driving a pickup, was traveling north on Gomez when he crashed into the rear of a parked semi truck, investigators said.

    Both victims were traveling alone.

    1 killed, 2 hurt in crash

    One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Friday night in a collision on Shaw Avenue west of Fresno, the California Highway Patrol reported.

    The crash took place about 7:20 p.m. when a vehicle westbound on Shaw was slammed into by a minivan northbound on Howard Avenue, CHP spokesman Matt Radke said.

    The male driver of the westbound vehicle was fatally injured. A female passenger in the car was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, as was the male driver of the minivan.

    Radke said the minivan driver failed to yield at a stop sign at the intersection. Investigators were trying to determine whether alcohol played a role in the collision.

    5 held in Fresno DUI check

    Five drivers were arrested Thursday night at a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint at Belmont and Glenn avenues in central Fresno, police said Friday.

    Officers said the DUI arrests bring the total to 63 at checkpoints since the Police Department started a holiday crackdown on drunken drivers Dec. 14.

    Thursday's operation also resulted in 24 vehicles being impounded when their drivers were not able to produce a valid license, bringing the total of impounded vehicles at the checkpoints to 200.

    In addition to checkpoints, the department is conducting citywide operations involving bar watches and DUI patrols. The operation will run through Jan. 1.

    Avocados stolen near Ivanhoe

    Tulare County sheriff's deputies are investigating the theft of an estimated 10,000 pounds of avocados from an orchard in the Ivanhoe area.

    The theft, which was reported Thursday, is believed to have occurred during the previous weekend, according to sheriff's reports.

    Gene Nickel, the owner, estimated the amount of the loss at $10,000.

    Pedestrian killed in road ID'd

    The Fresno County Coroner's Office on Friday disclosed that Steven Sherman, 47, was the pedestrian killed Dec. 15 when he was hit by a small sport utility vehicle on Blackstone Avenue north of Gettysburg Avenue in north Fresno.

    Fresno police said Sherman had been drinking when he attempted to cross Blackstone shortly before 6 p.m.

    Police said Sherman was not in a crosswalk and was wearing dark clothing when he was hit by a southbound Honda CRV driven by a Madera woman, Aurora Cortez, 68.

    Cortez, who was not cited, told officers she did not see the pedestrian, investigators said Friday.

    Blaze displaces Clovis family, causes $100,000 in damage

    A house fire believed to have started in a chimney displaced a Clovis family Thursday night and caused $100,000 in damage, Clovis fire officials said.

    The 9:15 p.m. fire broke out at a home on the 300 block of Armstrong Avenue. Firefighters were at the scene within three minutes.

    Seventeen firefighters fought the blaze.

    No one was injured.

    The displaced family is being helped by family and friends.

    3 indicted in fraud case

    Two Sanger residents and a Reedley resident were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges they defrauded the California Employment Development Department of unemployment insurance benefits.

    Named in the first indictment were Mario Jurado Pena, 37, and his wife, Jacqueline Chavez Jurado, 32, of Sanger, on charges of conspiracy, mail fraud, identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In the second indictment, Cruz Mendoza, also known as Carlos Espindola, 40, of Dinuba, was indicted on charges of mail fraud, identify theft and criminal forfeiture.

    Authorities say Pena and Jurado filed thousands of false unemployment insurance claims with the EDD from January 2001 to April 2003 totaling close to $3 million. The pair fraudulently acquired thousands of employees' identities, which included names and Social Security numbers.

    Mendoza is charged with similar conduct, but from the period of January 2000 to August 2007 for claims totaling more than $500,000.




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    NJ used to do this years ago. If you were stopped and didn't have your license, oops here came the tow truck. $300 later (at the impound lot) PLUS whatever court fees, you learned to never leave home with the license.

    I'd rather have these cars towed, than have unlicensed drivers on the road.
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    PLEASE LEAVE SOME COMMENTS ON THE NCT WEBPAGE, SO AS TO MOVE THIS STORY TO THE MOST COMMENTED SECTION.
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    RE: Police confiscate 55 vehicles

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    I just went out and bought the Sunday paper and I did not find this story on the front page. For that matter I could not find this story at all. Maybe after I read the Sunday comics I'll look again.

    It is a pretty sad state of affairs when 55 people loose their cars and it is not even considered newsworthy. It is even, more appalling that everyone one else driving through Escondido is put in jeopardy by unlicensed and untrained and uninsured drivers.

    There should be signs posted on streets entering Escondido that say "WARNING: UNLICENSED DRIVERS, DRIVE AT YOUR OWN RISK".

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    Escondido police chief addresses checkpoints and immigration

    By: TERI FIGUEROA - Staff Writer

    July 28, 2007

    ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA ---- Hit-and-run crashes are down 24 percent in Escondido since the city's Police Department began its controversial driver's license checkpoints program, the chief of police said Saturday.

    The checkpoints ---- and the policy of impounding a driver's car if the driver doesn't have a license ---- have raised the ire of some people in the community. Many activists argue the checkpoints are a back door to checking immigration status, particularly for Latinos.

    Addressing more than 40 members of the Escondido Democratic Club at the Escondido Public Library, Jim Maher said he has not kept statistics as to how many of the people found driving without a license in Escondido are in the country illegally.

    The chief also said the city does not include Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at the checkpoints.

    Maher said the reason for the checkpoint program is the city's high number of hit-and-run crashes.

    "We know that a lot of people leave the scene (of a hit and run) because they don't have a license, insurance, or have other problems," Maher said.

    Maher, who declined media interviews, didn't discuss one of the more controversial pieces of departmental policy: the practice of impounding for 30 days the cars of anyone nabbed for driving without a license.

    The practice has become a widespread concern among Latino rights activists, who say immigrants are targeted by the impound provisions. The policy is also the central issue of a federal lawsuit targeting Escondido and other cities and counties in California.

    Illegal immigration has become a hot issue in Escondido over the last year, boiling over when the City Council passed ---- but dropped after hitting serious legal roadblocks ---- an ordinance to punish landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.

    Some council members are now trying to pass an overnight parking ordinance that would restrict parking on residential streets to reduce overcrowding and improve the appearance of neighborhoods. Some council members blame the overcrowding in part on illegal immigrants.

    In March, Maher told the council that a new Police Department policy has officers working more with federal immigration agents. That means doing background checks on suspects for a broader range of misdemeanor violations ---- which could lead to deportation for more illegal immigrants who commit crimes in Escondido.

    Maher said Saturday that the checkpoints do not target Latino drivers.

    All drivers at a checkpoint are stopped and asked to show their license ---- "We stop every single person," Maher said ---- until traffic backs up. Once that happens, he said, all drivers are waived through until traffic eases up.

    Asked by someone in the audience if the Police Department honors driver's licenses from foreign countries, the chief said it is "much more difficult" to check the validity of licenses from Mexico, adding "that is something we are looking at."

    "But the short answer is yes, we do accept Mexican driver's licenses," Maher said.

    After the meeting, club member Evelyn Langston said the chief's speech cleared up her concerns about the checkpoints.

    "I don't feel like they are profiling. I had questions about that before," the 58-year-old Escondido resident said.

    Club member Rick Bova said he, too, encountered the unexpected from Maher.

    "I didn't find anything to disagree with," Bova said. "I was most surprised by that. It seemed logical and correct."

    Contact staff writer Teri Figueroa at (760) 631-6624 or tfigueroa@nctimes.com.

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