Police to conduct DUI checkpoint in Glendale

By Mark Kellam, <i><a href=”mailto:mark.kellam@latimes.com”>mark.kellam@latimes.com</a></i>

Aug. 7, 2014 4:53 PM PT

Glendale police officers will conduct a DUI checkpoint from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday at an undisclosed location.

Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment, and they will be checking that motorists have their driver’s license.

Recent statistics show that 30% of drivers in fatal crashes had one or more drugs in their system, police said.

DUI checkpoints are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, according to police.

Funding for the checkpoint is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.