Chesapeake Beach, MD: On February 6, 2005, at 9:55 PM personnel from the Prince Frederick Barrack initiated a DUI sobriety checkpoint on MD Rt. 261 just north of the North Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad, Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County, Maryland. The sobriety checkpoint lasted for just over two (2) hours. A total of 350 motorists travelled through the checkpoint. Eight of these motorists were directed to the roadside to investigate further and one of these drivers was arrested for DUI. Another motorist was arrested for DUI prior to actually entering the checkpoint.
The men and women of the Prince Frederick Barrack are committed to ridding Maryland 's highways of impaired drivers. These hard working Troopers opted to leave their homes and not watch Super Bowl XXXIX in order to protect the citizens of Calvert County. They will continue to work special initiatives such as sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols in order to arrest impaired drivers and to redu ce alcohol related crashes in Calvert County.
Funding for this specific initiative was provided by the Calvert County Traffic Safety Council. Many additional DUI sobriety checkpoints are anticipated by both the Maryland State Police and the Calvert County Sheriff's Office.