From Maryland State Police:
On September 3, 2015 the JFK Highway Barrack, along with the Bel Air Barrack and Harford County Sheriffs Office, conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint. The checkpoint location was on the ramp from north bound I-95 to Mountain Road. The checkpoint was conducted in honor of Joshua Hanna, who was killed in a collision by a drugged driver on November 5, 2011 on MD Rt. 22.
The checkpoint began at 2300 hours and concluded at 0130 hours. During that time, 486 vehicle’s passed through the checkpoint. Multiple Trooper’s and Deputies were also on a saturation patrol of the area during the checkpoint. As a result of this initiative, 1 person was arrested for DUI, 3 people were charged with possession of marijuana less than 10 grams, and 1 person was charged with possession of marijuana less than 10 grams, and possession of CDS prescription medication.
Sure seems like it was worth it.
Checkpoints are such a crock. I still don’t understand how these are even legal.
I dunno, I always figured DUI checkpoints were a PR thing. You know, this one did catch 1 pperson DUI.
I guess the reality is that all the Law Enforcement officers standing around were put into vehicles to specifically search out DUI, then yeah…
What’s funny is that there are a ton of drunks in North Harford driving whiskey bent, never see any cops ever. Even drunk hillbillies know not to drive the main roads
I can tell you firsthand that these drunks on the road are scary dangerous. Based upon your post one can only assume you have never had to make a death notification to family that violently lost someone due to this. One DUI arrest could have not only saved someone’s life that night but also for the future. Checkpoints are mainly Based upon the theory of general deterrence thereby rendering them invaluable. In response to the question how is this even legal, the U.S. Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that this does not constitute a search and is necessary for the protection of lives and property. This response is not meant to be ignorant, I just want to open your eyes to the dangers we traverse through on a daily basis.
Hey, hello???? driving on the roads in the US is a privilege, not a right…..ah Hello?
They can roll throgh 400 cars at I95 and get 1 DUI.
Probably get 50 cars and 6/7 DUI in North Harford.
Its 2230, and Northern Harford County roads are filled with drunk hilly-billies.
They should have set the checkpoint up on Route 543. There are always car accidents on this road and there have been about 6 deaths during the 10 years that I have lived just off of it. I believe half of them were alcohol related. But do I ever see a state police or sheriffs deputy on that road? Nope.
You are absolutely right more checkpoints on Route 543 are a great idea! It’s certainly a dangerous road frequented by drunks. I will tell you it is worked by way of roving patrols, I have made several DUI arrests there over the past 12-18 months.
Snow storms have the most drunks on the road at once.
They run DUI check points in Aberdump on Route 40 by the 22 overpass or by Wal Mart. The only problem is that all the lights at night someone half tanked can see them a mile away and turn down Route 7 or Robin hood road, which they probably do.
RIP Josh Hanna, killed by a heroin addict who got behind the wheel while he was high. You are dearly missed and loved. If this saved one life it was worth it. Heroin kills more than just its users.
Headline sould read “Hanna memory dishonored by being used to trump 4th amendment of the United States Constitution for an expensive publicity stunt”
SMH, I’m just envisioning our founding fathers writing our constitution a long, long, LONG time ago thinking with the knowledge they knew then what would be best for the citizens of the United States. Not having any clue as to the dangers, infrastructure, technology, etc. of 2015. That’s why the Supreme Court makes present day realistic interpretations of things such as 4th amendment. As I said previously this is a well-known fact that sobriety checkpoints do not violate that or any amendment. You’re comments reek of ignorance.