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DUI Checkpoint in Eagle Rock on Friday Night

LAPD will administer sobriety tests from 8 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday on Eagle Rock Boulevard, near Fresh & Easy.

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The Los Angeles Police Department will conduct sobriety and driver license checkpoints and beefed-up anti-driving under the influence patrols in Eagle Rock, Hollywood, Hyde Park and South Los Angeles from Friday night to early Saturday.

Checkpoints will be operated from 8 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday on Eagle Rock Boulevard at El Paso Drive, near the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, the department announced Tuesday. A saturation patrol will be deployed in Hollywood from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday, and on Slauson Avenue at Buckler Avenue in Hyde Park. A checkpoint will also be operated from 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday on Manchester Avenue at Hoover Street in South Los Angeles.

Crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well- publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough, according to the LAPD.

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