UPDATE, MAY 22, 3:40 P.M.: It's safe to say Timothy D. Naegele has juice. He was chief of staff to former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) and counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. His Timothy D. Naegele & Associates firm, which specializes in law involving banking, financial institutions and the Internet, has offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. But a civil case occupying his time currently involves his son, who just accepted a plea deal for a 2009 DUI car crash near Hearst Castle that killed one and injured two others. More >>

There's mucho police enforcement going on along Orange County streets, starting tonight with a DUI/drivers license checkpoint in the 8000 block of La Palma Avenue in Buena Park from 7 p.m. through 2 a.m. Saturday. The Garden Grove Police Department holds its own on an undisclosed stretch of that city from 9 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday.

Police in Costa Mesa go after an entirely different set of drivers that same night.
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To herald the arrival of Stinko de Drinko weekend, the CHP, Garden Grove Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's Department are deploying saturation patrols tonight.

Saturation in this case does not define the human pickling that will take place in bars, pubs and house parties across Orange County, but the police resources that will be poured into areas known for DUI arrests, accidents and fatalities.
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UPDATE, APRIL 27, 11:58 A.M.: If you believe sobriety checkpoints cost cities too much for the inconvenience and scant arrests they generate, the Costa Mesa Police Department counters with this: you're wrong.

Funded by grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, checkpoints save $6 for every $1 spent, claims CMPD, citing NHTSA figures.
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Prescription drug abuse by South County teens has been a hot topic lately thanks to the documentary Behind the Orange Curtain making its world premiere May 2 at the Newport Beach Film Festival and, due to a sell out, getting a second showing May 3 in the huge Big Newport theater.

That makes a couple other looming events all the more timely, one that's tonight in San Clemente and another at various Orange County locations Saturday.
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Rubber-neckers beware: that car accident you're going to stare at Thursday won't be real. Keep it moving, please. More >>

Sloppy roadways should keep you from getting your drinky-winky on before climbing behind the wheel tonight, Friday the 13th. If you're in Garden Grove, here's another reason you and Sailor Jerry should stay inside: Police will saturate the streets like raindrops beginning at 7 tonight. "If you drive drunk, Garden Grove PD will be looking for you," says Sgt Carl Whitney in a statement about tonight's "Zero Tolerance" DUI saturation patrol. "If you're over the limit and we catch you, you will be arrested." Mercy.
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​Way to wrap up your life, Edward Stanley Butler.

According to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the 71-year-old San Bernardino man "faces a maximum sentence of seven years and eight in state prison if convicted" of downing vodka and slamming his car into that of Tamiko Kaminaga, 60, and injuring her 17-year-old son Jorge Maresch, near a parking lot in Orange.More >>

UPDATE: March 20, 11:20 A.M.: Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, says Castro "separated" from the department on Feb. 22. He wouldn't say if Castro was fired or quit, citing employment privacy laws.
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​Drink your green beer with the Jameson shot add-ons, but be aware that the coppers are roaming the streets with extra vigor this weekend.

Sobriety checkpoints are scheduled tonight in Mission Viejo and Saturday night in Buena Park.

Meanwhile, officers from the CHP, sheriff's department and various police agencies will be patrolling OC "hot spots" that routinely produce drunken driving wrecks and arrests.
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