Dennis RomeroIt's Friday the 13th. And if you're superstitious, you should hear the one about the chupacabra with a badge.
He hunts down idiot drunk drivers in places like Hollywood, Koreatown and Silver Lake only to lock them up and take lots of their money. Don't be stupid. We happen to know where this crime-fighting character will be this weekend. Listen up:
–Tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. there will be an LAPD DUI checkpoint on Hollywood Boulevard at Gower Street — right in the middle of partytown.
–Tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. there will be another such checkpoint waiting for you on Vermont Avenue at Beverly Boulevard in lovely Koreatown.
–Tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. cops will be set up at Hyperion Avenue and Scotland Street in Silver Lake.
–Tonight the L.A. County Sheriff's Department will have a drunk-driver checkpoint waiting for you somewhere in the Santa Clarita Valley (they won't say exactly where) from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
–Tonight from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Pasadena police will have a checkpoint set up somewhere (they're not saying exactly where) in their fine city.
-The on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. there will be a DUI saturation patrol (meaning there will be extra cops on the streets looking specifically for motorists who have been drinking) throughout Pasadena.
–Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. the checkpoint action will be on Ventura Boulevard and Fairway Avenue in Studio City.
-On Saturday the LAPD returns to Hollywood for a checkpoint on Cahuenga Boulevard at Hollywood Boulevard in the heart of clubland. It happens from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Be safe. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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