Two-Week Anti-DUI Operation Results in 695 Arrests

RIVERSIDE - A two-week countywide crackdown on suspected drunken and drug-impaired motorists netted 695 arrests, 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 and went through Labor Day.

Saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints were deployed in a number of locations, including Banning, Beaumont, Corona, La Quinta, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Norco, Palm Springs, Perris, Rancho Mirage, Riverside and Temecula.

The nearly 700 motorists arrested on suspicion of DUI compare to 710...