Countywide Anti-DUI Operation Results in 478 Arrests

RIVERSIDE - A countywide crackdown on drunken and drug-impaired motorists netted 478 arrests in the first 12 days of the operation, authorities reported today.

The end-of-summer Riverside County Avoid the 30 campaign -- named for the number of police agencies involved -- got under way on Aug. 16, with saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints deployed in a number of locations, including Banning, Beaumont, Corona, La Quinta, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Norco, Palm Springs, Perris, Rancho Mirage, Riverside and Temecula.

Through Wednesday, 478 motorists were arrested on suspicion of DUI, compared...