19 Drivers Ticketed at Police Checkpoint

The Oxnard Police Department completed a sobriety check early Sunday morning, handing out 19 tickets for license violations and towing away seven cars whose drivers were either impaired or unlicensed.

Out of five field sobriety tests conducted, however, no one was arrested for driving under the influence, according to Oxnard’s senior traffic officer, Don Mulville.

The checkpoint, the 21st of the year, was done in conjunction with the Port Hueneme Police Department. It began at 7 p.m. Saturday and lasted until 2 a.m. Sunday. During that time, 908 cars passed through the westbound lanes of Channel Islands Boulevard at Patterson Road.

The two police departments plan to continue conducting field sobriety checkpoints at least twice a month through December 1998 to reduce the number of alcohol-involved collisions, Mulville said.