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Halloween Booze It & Loose It Campaign Yields 816 DWI Arrests

Written by Adam Hicks

Thursday, November 05 2009

Stepped up law enforcement across the state yielded over 17,500 traffic and criminal citations over the weekend.

North Carolina authorities said Governor Bev Perdue’s Halloween Booze It & Loose It campaign also produced 816 DWI arrests.

Besides regular traffic citations, the initiative also yielded 359 drug charges, 147 fugitives from justice, and authorities were able to recover 24 stolen vehicles from Friday, October 30 until Sunday, November 1.

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beechbum

Registered | 11/05/2009 1:02PM

Great source of revenue for NC. Now that Newland has approved booze, NC will benefit even more!

abacab

Registered | 11/05/2009 7:56PM

That's alot of stolen vehicles recovered.

paulman1

Registered | 11/05/2009 8:00PM

To Abacab,
It's not a bad as it sounds..
The App State Golf Cart was reported 22
times in the stolen vehicle reports..

Chaos_Theory

Registered | 11/05/2009 11:10PM

Hey beechbum, could you call Molon and tell him that beer and wine passed? I don't want him getting busted for concealed carry in Newland restaurants...

beechbum

Registered | 11/06/2009 5:56AM

There may not be blood in the streets, but there is still blood on a lot of people's hands.

keylimey

Registered | 11/07/2009 1:31PM

Is Spelling Police asleep?! Should be "Booze it and Lose it" no? Tch! Tch!

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