{"id":71572,"date":"2017-02-14T21:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-police-make-11-dui-arrests-during-snowdown-weekend\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T04:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:59:33","slug":"durango-police-make-11-dui-arrests-during-snowdown-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-police-make-11-dui-arrests-during-snowdown-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Police make 11 DUI arrests during Snowdown weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9ce0ac91-8436-4d0b-9972-95de063290d4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Local law enforcement agencies followed suit with statewide efforts to ramp up DUI enforcement for the Super Bowl weekend, which just so happened to coincide with Snowdown.<\/p>\n<p>Across the state, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced there were 273 impaired drivers arrested from Feb. 3 to Feb. 6 \u2013 lower than last year\u2019s total of 325 arrests for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, nearly one-third of Colorado\u2019s traffic fatalities involved an impaired driver,\u201d Darrell Lingk, director of the Office of Transportation Safety at CDOT, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpaired driving is a major issue CDOT will continue to address to help curb Colorado\u2019s traffic deaths. Every time someone chooses to drive impaired, they are putting everyone on the road at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 agencies participated in \u201cThe Heat Is On\u201d campaign, with the Aurora Police Department recording 29 arrests, Colorado Springs Police Department with 28 arrests and Denver Police Department with 27 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, the Durango Police Department made 11 DUI arrests in that same time period, Lt. Ray Shupe said. For a Super Bowl weekend amplified by the alcohol-friendly Snowdown festival, that\u2019s about average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very busy weekend, but we prepare for it and have extra staff,\u201d Shupe said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten accustomed to it (Snowdown), but it\u2019s definitely one of our high-impact weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shupe said on a normal weekend, the department averages anywhere from five to seven DUI arrests. The department records about 300 DUIs a year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office made one DUI arrest on Feb. 6, Super Bowl Sunday, during the day, spokesman Dan Bender said. The Sheriff\u2019s Office also assisted the Southern Ute Indian Tribe police with a DUI on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll said the agency made three DUI arrests over that weekend: one on Feb. 3 and two on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>agencies join statewide effort to nab the impaired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,480,1065],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-dui","tag-durango-police-department"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71572","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=71572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71572"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}