PERKIOMEN TOWNSHIP CRIME

State police announce DUI checkpoint arrests from recent enforcement

The sobriety checkpoints identify and remove impaired, drugged and drunk drivers from the road.

By Tony Di Domizio

Managing Editor

Friday, September 20, 2024

Pennsylvania State Police.

Pennsylvania State Police. Photo by James Short.

The sobriety checkpoints identify and remove impaired, drugged and drunk drivers from the road.

  • Public Safety

Pennsylvania State Police at Skippack reported two DUI arrests over the weekend during a five-hour sobriety checkpoint in Perkiomen Township.

Police said the checkpoint was on Gravel Pike (Route 29), east of Plank Road, from 10 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday.

The goal of the checkpoint was to identify and remove impaired, drunk, and drugged drivers from the road, per the police report.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, with a degree in English/Professional Writing and Electronic Media. He went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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