Rice County Sheriff Discusses Recent DWI Report on AM Minnesota 1-15-16

Rice County Sheriff Troy Dunn will be the guest on AM Minnesota today at 9:30AM.

This week the Minnesota Department of Public Safety released results of a Toward Zero Deaths Holiday DWI Enforcement campaign conducted between Thanksgiving and New Year's.

According to the report, Rice County had just two DWI arrests. The city of Faribault had five, Northfield two, Owatonna nine and Kenyon one.

More than 300 law enforcement agencies across the state participated in the campaign overseen by the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.

The drunk driving arrests included a 50-year-old man arrested for driving with a 0.25 blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) with his 11-year-old son in the vehicle in St. Paul.

A 33-year-old man drove through a stop sign, hitting another vehicle and causing severe injuries. The man registered a 0.20 BAC.

A driver in Olmsted County was arrested with a 0.24 BAC and it was his third DWI offense in three weeks.

A driver with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 or above can be arrested for DWI, and during the extra enforcement campaign the highest alcohol concentrations were much higher:

• 0.40 -- Minnetonka Police Department
• 0.39 -- Ramsey County Sheriff's Office
• 0.35 -- Bloomington, Bemidji and Plymouth Police Departments
• 0.34 -- Virginia Police Department
• 0.33 -- Dakota, Carver and Wright County Sheriff's Offices, St. Francis Police Department

Here are some other results from around the KDHL listening area. Again, these are the number of DWI arrests between November 25 and January 2:

• Dakota County 22, Dodge County 5, Goodhue County 8, Le Seuer County 4
• Edina 38, Eagan 25, Austin 22, Lakeville 17, Burnsville 13, Farmington 3, Elko/New Market 2
• Lake City 5, New Prague 3, Le Seuer 3, Janesville 2, Kasson 1
• Goodhue, Cannon Falls and Blooming Prairie all reported no DWI arrests.

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