{"id":50696,"date":"2020-10-28T19:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dwi-checkpoint-planned-for-nov-6-in-san-juan-county-n-m\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:44:14","slug":"dwi-checkpoint-planned-for-nov-6-in-san-juan-county-n-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dwi-checkpoint-planned-for-nov-6-in-san-juan-county-n-m\/","title":{"rendered":"DWI checkpoint planned for Nov. 6 in San Juan County, N.M."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a26d2d76-777f-4205-947d-2df30c544f7f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"724\" alt=\"The San Juan County, N.M., Sheriff\u2019s Office will conduct a DWI checkpoint Nov. 6.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The San Juan County, N.M., Sheriff\u2019s Office will conduct a DWI checkpoint Nov. 6.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The San Juan County, New Mexico, Sheriff\u2019s Office will conduct a DWI checkpoint Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, the checkpoint is intended \u201cto identify and apprehend drunk drivers and to make the highways safer for the motoring public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office receives grant funding to conduct checkpoints, said spokeswoman Kristi Hughes, and there will be more checkpoints throughout the holiday season. The department receives grants through Safer New Mexico Now, a nonprofit working to create safe traffic solutions. Grants are awarded based on area-specific crash and DWI statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoint Nov. 6 will be used as a required training for new supervisors so they are able to conduct checkpoints in the future. Members from Safer New Mexico Now will be at the checkpoint to administer the training.<\/p>\n<p>At a routine checkpoint, each car that approaches is stopped, asked for license and registration, and officers will ensure they don\u2019t detect any drugs or alcohol, said Lt. Al Jamison with the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office is not releasing the exact time or whereabouts of the checkpoint, but the department plans the checkpoints based on previous statistics and data related to DWIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to catching drunk drivers on the night of the checkpoints, DWI checkpoints are highly visible,\u201d Hughes wrote in an email to <em>The Durango Herald.<\/em> \u201cWe believe they bring attention to the dangers of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and raise awareness of the problem in our area<em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smarvin@durangoherald.com\">smarvin@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enforcement won\u2019t give specific time or location of stops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696","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=50696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50696"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}