Six charged during Labor Day weekend sobriety checkpoint in Lebanon
Staff reports 7:58 a.m.
LEBANON, Maine - The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety reported on Thursday that six drivers were charged with operating under the Influence during a Labor Day weekend checkpoint on Route 202.
In all more than 850 vehicles were stopped at the checkpoint and information handouts were given about impaired driving and the efforts to curb it. Field sobriety tests were given to 25 of those drivers. In addition to the OUI charges, six other drivers were charged with various offenses, including violating bail conditions, operating after suspension of their driver's license and driving without a license. The York Sheriff's Office, State Police, Berwick, South Berwick and the York police departments, along with a New Hampshire State trooper manned the four-hour checkpoint along Route 202.
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