Friday, November 16, 2012
The exact location and time will be announced Saturday morning.
On Saturday evening, the Ohio State Highway Patrol will conduct a drunken driving checkpoint somewhere in Portage County. The exact location of the checkpoint won't be released until Saturday morning. The checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers. "Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507injured in Ohio," Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. "State troopers make on average 25,000 OVIarrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving,but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways." Check Patch Saturday …
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will be looking for drunk drivers in Brimfield Aug. 25, 2012.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Saturday morning that it will conduct a drunken driving checkpoint in Brimfield with the help of the Brimfield Police Department. The exact location is at mile post 9 in Brimfield from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers. "If you plan to consume alcohol, designate a driver or make other travel arrangements before you drink. Don’t let another life be lost for the senseless and selfish act of getting behind the wheel impaired," according to a press release from the patrol. To follow along with how the checkpoint is going, 'Like' the Brimfield Police Department's Facebook page. The chief is known to leave comments …
Friday, August 24, 2012
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will announce the exact location Saturday morning.
Portage County will be the location of an OVI checkpoint sometime Saturday evening, the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced today. "Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507 injured 11 Ohio," Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways." The patrol issued a release earlier this week warning that the sobriety checkpoint would be set up somewhere within the next week at an undetermined location. The exact location of the …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said it will announce the location the morning of the operation.
There will be an OVI checkpoint somewhere in the area this week, but the Ohio State Highway Patrol has not announced the location or day yet. The patrol announced in a press release Monday morning from Ravenna that sometime in the next seven days a sobriety checkpoint will be set up to "deter and intercept impaired drivers." The day before the checkpoint is set up, the county where it will take place will be announced. The morning of the checkpoint, the location will be announced. “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year in Ohio,” said Lt. Nakia J. Hendrix, Commander of the Patrol’s Ravenna Post. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating …
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The checkpoint will be set up from 10 p.m. April 14 until 2 a.m. April 15
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced the drunk driving checkpoint in Portage County April 14 will be set up on State Route 59 in Kent near milepost 3. The checkpoint, funded by federal grants, will be conducted with the help of the Kent Police Department from 10 p.m. Saturday April 14 until 2 a.m. Sunday April 15. "The checkpoint will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes," according to a press release. The most recent checkpoint in Brimfield on St. Patrick's Day nabbed 17 drunk drivers.
Friday, April 13, 2012
The specific location of the checkpoint will be announced Saturday morning, the day of the operation.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced a drunk driving checkpoint will be set up in Portage County Saturday evening. The exact location will be announced Saturday morning. “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507 injured in Ohio,” Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways.” The latest checkpoint was in Portage County in Brimfield on St. Patrick's Day. Officers arrested 17 for drunk driving.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The following information was provided by the Twinsburg Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
On Feb.25 a Twinsburg police officer saw a car speeding over I-480 heading west. He turned and followed the car and saw it was weaving. After stopping the driver, she was arrested and charged for speeding, weaving, drunken driving and high blood-alcohol content, after she blew a .233 during a breath test. On Feb. 24 officers stopped a car for a traffic violationand subsequently arrested and charged with the driver for speeding, possession of marijuana, and two counts of drug paraphernalia, and underage prohibitions. A juvenile occupant was charged with possession of marijuana and curfew. On Feb. 26 police responded to the Hilton Garden Inn for a theft from a car, which occurred sometime between the 4:30 p.m. the day before and 8:30 a.m. …
Monday, October 24, 2011
The following information was provided by the Twinsburg Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction
What started as a humorous accident turned out to be a bad day for an Akron man. On October 15 the Twinsburg Police Department were alerted to the silent alarm at the Fifth Third Bank on Darrow Road. When officers got to the bank, two men who worked on the cleaning crew were leaving the building after accidentally hitting the alarm button while working. When the officers did a quick background check the found one of the men, Nathan Ketterman, 53, of Akron, had a felony probation violation on a drunk driving arrest through the Carter County Sheriff's Office in Tennesee. Ketterman was arrested and held for transfer to Tennesse.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Christopher Petranic will keep his job as a cop, but serve a 70-day unpaid suspension
Solon Police Officer Christopher Petranic will serve three days in the Twinsburg jail and three days in an alcohol treatment program after pleading guilty Monday to drunk driving. Petranic was arrested in March after crashing his personal car into a tree on Darrow Road in Twinsburg. He was arrested and charged with drunk driving and failure to control after recording a blood-alcohol level of .238, nearly three times the legal limit, according to the police report. Petranic initially pleaded not guilty to the charges in Stow Municipal Court, but changed his plea to guilty. According to the Twinsburg Bulletin, Petranic was sentenced to 180 days in jail and fined $1,000, but 174 days and $600 of the sentence was suspended. The failure to …
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1:07 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810999.pdf "These ESTIMATES are based on data from NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Unfortunately, known blood alcohol concentration (BAC) test results are NOT AVAILABLE for all drivers and nonoccupants involved in fatal crashes. MISSING DATA can result for a number of reasons, the most frequent of which is that people are not always tested for … more ›