Manteca Police Conduct DUI Sweep

MANTECA, Calif. --


Teams of officers searched Manteca Wednesday, with warrants in hand for suspected drunken driving offenders.
Police said some of the people had multiple arrests in the past.
"For the most part, the drunk drivers that we run into that get arrested, this is their first offense," Rex Osborn from the Manteca Police Department said. "The ones we are arresting today, the majority of them have other criminal behavior. They know the system, they know the likelihood of being caught is one of these sweeps or a traffic violation, so they work the system."
Officers had a list with 241 names on it -- all of them from the Manteca area. They are people who didn't show up for court or who didn't show up for jail after being convicted.
Police find that most have moved away, but there are some who are handcuffed and taken off to jail -- no longer able to put off serving time.
"We have guys that get sentenced and they have to wait six months to go to jail because there is no room, so they wait and they just don't show up," Osborn said. "And the others, they just don't show up to court on the date we give them and either move out of the area -- which is most of them -- and they think it goes away, but it doesn't."



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