Norwalk News: Results Of DUI Checkpoint

On Saturday December 3, 2016, the Norwalk Department of Police Service held a DUI Checkpoint along the West Avenue corridor. Six Norwalk Police Officers and two Wilton Police Officers worked the checkpoint. The checkpoint stats are as follows:

3 DUI arrests           4 seatbelt violations                    1 seatbelt violation for not having a 2-year-old child in a car seat                            1 felony arrest for failure to appear in court with an original charge of DUI in Norwalk

1 arrest for a suspended license                                    3 arrest for narcotics or marijuana                                                                                          17 infractions for other motor vehicle violations

Two additional roving DUI Enforcement Officers made an additional DUI arrest, 2 speeding infractions, an additional drug arrest and 10 additional infractions.

The DUI Enforcement Checkpoint was 75% funded by the Connecticut Department of Transportation Highway Safety Office.

Norwalk Police Tip Line at 203-854-3111

(Norwalk Police Press Release)

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Donations Still Needed for Local Effort to Support Veterans and Wreaths Across America

#STRATFORD, Ct. — December, 2016 — Local volunteers with the Civil Air Patrol’s Stratford Eagles Composite Squadron are working hard to ensure that all veterans laid to rest at Mountain Grove Cemetery, located in Bridgeport, are honored this December on National Wreaths Across America Day.

This year, the ceremony, held simultaneously across the country at more than 1,000 locations, will be on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. The goal: to place a live, balsam fir wreath at the headstone of every veteran buried there and say each person’s name, so their memory lives on. The Stratford Eagles Squadron is hosting a fundraisers to sponsor the 2, 501 wreaths needed to honor every veteran at Mountain Grove. Each wreath sponsorship costs $15, with $5 going to the local fundraising group as part of a special fundraising program developed by WAA.

Those interested in sponsoring a wreath through the Stratford Eagles Squadron can do so through December 3rd, 2016  by accessing the following website:  https://wreaths.fastport.com/donateLocation.html?page=26084&relate=15594

 
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