Weekend checkpoints result in one OVI arrest
AUSTINTOWN — The Mahoning County OVI Task Force and Ohio State Highway Patrol conducted two sobriety checkpoints in Austintown over the weekend resulting in one OVI arrest.
There were 237 vehicles that passed through the checkpoints, and three officers conducted saturation patrols in support of the checkpoints and conducted 14 total traffic stops.
In addition to the one OVI arrest, the checkpoints and patrols also issued one summons for open container, two summons for drug abuse, one for drug paraphernalia, one for driving with a suspended license, one for driving without a license, one citation for not having headlights on and one citation for defective exhaust.