{"id":23841,"date":"2025-01-27T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-dui-arrests-spike-during-first-weekend-of-snowdown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:43:10","slug":"durango-dui-arrests-spike-during-first-weekend-of-snowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-dui-arrests-spike-during-first-weekend-of-snowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango DUI arrests spike during first weekend of Snowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a788720d-1fad-5c17-8904-80d1e8e99ca9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Durango police officers made seven arrests for driving under the influence during the first weekend of Snowdown this year. (Courtesy Durango Police Department)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango police officers made seven arrests for driving under the influence during the first weekend of Snowdown this year. (Courtesy Durango Police Department)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Snowdown has not been all fun and games so far this year \u2013 at least not for the seven people who were arrested by Durango police officers for driving under the influence over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about twice as many DUI arrests as the department\u2019s officers made in each of the previous two weekends.<\/p>\n<p>And if drivers were competing to blow the highest score on the Breathalyzer, a driver caught with a 0.311% blood alcohol content level took first place, according to a post on the Durango Police Department\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Two other drivers were caught with BACs of 0.173% and 0.159%. Anyone with a BAC over 0.08% is considered impaired by default in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n<p>No one was injured in any of the incidents that led to DUI arrests over the weekend, DPD\u2019s Administrative Analyst McKenzie Perdue said.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, Snowdown is one of the department\u2019s busiest times of year. During last year\u2019s festivities, officers made 15 DUI arrests. DPD is beefing up staffing Friday in advance of the Light Parade, Perdue said.<\/p>\n<p>In the department\u2019s Facebook posts, the department noted that public transportation is free Wednesday through Saturday this week.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-277081e2e3501dc750915f8606386a29\"><a href=\"mailto:rschafir@durangoherald.com\">rschafir@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>celebrants that driving under the influence is no game to play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[924,950,28,51,1402],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-durango","tag-headlines","tag-police","tag-snowdown"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78286,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions\/78286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23841"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}