(Click on the image for Scott MacFarlane's News4 report)
- Despite stay-at-home orders and the closure of restaurants and bars regionwide, police have arrested hundreds of people in the D.C. area for driving drunk in the past month, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.
- In the past four weeks, D.C. police arrested at least 52 drunken drivers, according to the reports. In Montgomery County, Prince George’s County and Fairfax County, each county police department has arrested approximately 40 drunk drivers during the same time frame. The arrests include a driver who crashed along Interstate 270 shortly before 10 a.m. Monday morning.
- “People still have access and are engaging in self-medication during this troubling time,” said Prince George’s County Police Chief Hank Stawinski. “And some of those people are choosing to go back out on our roads.”