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13 DWI Arrests On New Year’s Eve
Thanks to a New Year’s Eve sobriety checkpoint, more than a dozen Albuquerque drivers welcomed the new year from a jail cell. Albuquerque police seized four vehicles and made 13 DWI arrests Monday night at a sobriety checkpoint near San Mateo and Lincoln, according to APD spokesman Robert Gibbs. The sobriety checkpoint was part of a holiday season tactical plan that had officers stationed at random sobriety checkpoints throughout the city in addition to “saturation patrols,” where a team of officers targets potential drunken drivers through focused patrols in a particular area. In late December, the department announced that more than 20 officers would look for drunken drivers full time throughout the holiday season, in addition to at least two random sobriety checkpoints.
Possible Shooting On I-40 Investigated
A 23-year-old man was struck with a projectile from an unknown source Tuesday afternoon as he rode in a vehicle along eastbound Interstate 40.
The projectile, which officers said is possibly a bullet, penetrated the car’s windshield shortly before 3 p.m. and struck the man in the leg. The projectile did not break the skin, police said.
Officers are checking the surrounding area for any information about where the projectile might have come from.
The man and the car’s female driver were near Nine Mile Hill in a Kia pulling a small U-Haul trailer when the man was struck.
— This article appeared on page A4 of the Albuquerque Journal
