It was Hazlet's first DWI checkpoint in 15 years, according to police.
A DWI checkpoint operated by the Hazlet Township Police Department and the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office had to be abandoned due to heavy storms on Friday night after only 30 minutes. The public was notified that every car passing on the eastbound side of Route 36 would be diverted to the Holy Family Elementary School parking lot between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. According to Police Lt. Al Lynch, it would be Hazlet PD's first DWI checkpoint in 15 years; and was made possible by a $4,000 state grant to cover police overtime. A dozen uniformed officers were on the scene, as well as a state-of-the-art county Mobile Command Center Unit used to efficiently run license plates and drivers licenses through the state DMV and law enforcement …
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Nine officers will man the DWI checkpoint at the Holy Family parking lot, between Poole and Union Avenues.
On Friday night, Hazlet Township Police, in conjunction with the Monmouth County DWI Task Force, will stop every vehicle traveling on Route 36 South near Holy Family Elementary school in an effort to weed out drunk drivers. The hours of the checkpoint will be from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. According to Hazlet Police Lt. Al Lynch, this is the first time in 15 years the department is running a DWI checkpoint. "We applied for, and got a $4,000 grant to pay for the officers' overtime," said Lynch. Nine Hazlet officers and three Task Force officers will staff the checkpoint in the parking lot of the now-closed Holy Family Elementary School, between Poole and Union Aves. "We'll pull vehicles into the lot, and basically give them a little education …
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Martin B. Brilliant
2:46 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Sorry, James. The right to fewer accidents is not in the Constitution. You might say it's included in the "other rights" in the Ninth Amendment. But the Constitution does not mandate that the government do anything to protect my rights, only that it not do anything that infringes on them. If it says they may not search without probable cause, and there's no probable cause -- no evidence -- that I… more ›