4th of July Arizona Statewide DUI task force nets 137 arrests

One point of clar­i­fi­ca­tion that is com­monly mis­un­der­stood among peo­ple not famil­iar with the DUI laws in Arizona, an “extreme DUI” is sim­ply a DUI that has higher penal­ties (mon­e­tary and jail time) incurred when the alco­hol con­cen­tra­tion is above a thresh­old level (either 0.15 or 0.20). Extreme DUIs are usu­ally mis­de­meanors unless some other aggra­vat­ing fac­tor makes them felonies. The arti­cle below is mis­lead­ing in that aspect.

Original arti­cle located here.

Statewide Arizona DUI task force nets 137 arrests

46 com­ments Jul. 5, 2008 03:52 PM
Associated Press

A law enforce­ment task force oper­at­ing across Arizona on the Fourth of July week­end has arrested 137 sus­pected drunken dri­vers since Thursday.

Most of the arrests came on Friday, when offi­cers nabbed 94 peo­ple on sus­pi­cion of DUI.

Of the 137 DUI arrests statewide, 41 were for extreme DUI and 12 for aggra­vated DUI. The rest were mis­de­meanor charges.

DUI task force offi­cers also issued 726 cita­tions for traf­fic vio­la­tions such as speeding.

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety coor­di­nates the efforts dur­ing hol­i­day peri­ods. This weekend’s effort con­tin­ues through Sunday.

More than 30 agen­cies are participating.