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Local police will be holding a DUI checkpoint in Mountain View on the Saturday before the New Year. Beginning at 10 p.m. on Dec. 29, uniformed Mountain View police officers will be checking for drivers who appear to be driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol at an unspecified location. “The purpose of the checkpoint is to promote public safety; increase awareness of the dangers associated with drinking and driving, and serves as a deterrent to potential impaired driving,� according to an MVPD press release. The operation is being conducted in partnership with the California Office of Traffic Safety, which provided a grant to pay for the checkpoint, the release said.
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Law enforcement officials in Santa Clara County arrested more people on drunken-driving charges last week compared to the same period during last year’s holiday crackdown, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 21. Personnel from 15 agencies within the county arrested 156 people on misdemeanor DUI charges between Dec. 14 and Thursday, compared to 146 over that week in 2011, sheriff’s officials said. The county’s Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown includes routine traffic enforcement officers and extra patrols from a special unit called Avoid the 13 in a maximum enforcement period this holiday weekend, according to the sheriff’s office. For Christmas weekend,
police officers set up special DUI checkpoints in Gilroy and San Jose and deploy extra DUIsaturation patrols in Los Altos, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Palo Alto and San Jose. The California Highway Patrol used all available officers during a maximum enforcement period for the weekend, starting at 6 p.m. and ending midnight. —Bay City News Service
APARTMENT BURGLARIZED A wallet was stolen from an apartment in the 100 block of Calderon Avenue on Dec. 17, police said. According to a public information officer with the Mountain View Police Department an unknown subject entered the apartment at 151 Calderon Ave. and left with a wallet. There was no sign of forced entry and the victim living in the apartment claimed it was locked. The burglary occurred sometime between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
PUMAR IN COURT Matthew Pumar, the Mountain View driver accused of hitting and killing a man who was waiting for the bus, was scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on Dec. 27, at 9 a.m., according Duffy Magilligan, the deputy district attorney handling the case. At press time, individuals familiar with the proceedings said witnesses would take the stand and a judge would decide whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial. Pumar, who pleaded not guilty to the felony charge of See CRIME BRIEFS, page 7
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100 block Campbell Dr., 12/19 200 block E El Camino Real, 12/19 City Lot No. 1, 12/23 100 block Bryant St., 12/23
100 block Calderon Av., 12/20 Marshalls, 12/23 600 block Rainbow Ln., 12/23
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400 Moffett Bl., 12/19 Castro St. & Villa St., 12/21
100 block Calderon Av., 12/18 1700 block California St., 12/24
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