More Than 1300 Charged with DWI in North Carolina During Holiday

Operation Firecracker targeted drunk driving in NC during Fourth of July weekend.

North Carolina law enforcement agencies from across the state conducted a concentrated campaign against drunk driving during the extended Fourth of July weekend. Dubbed ‘Booze It & Lose It: Operation Firecracker’, the crackdown ran between June 29 and July 5 and netted 1,340 arrests for driving while intoxicated in North Carolina.

State and local officers conducted more than 4,800 sobriety checkpoints and engaged in saturation patrols. A total of 53,614 traffic and criminal violations were issued throughout the state. The three counties with the highest numbers of NC DWI arrests were: Mecklenburg (93), New Hanover (75) and Wake (66).

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