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Indian Trail police report checkpoint yielded 10 DUIs; June call volume was high
Summary
Police provided department statistics for June and second-quarter averages and described a multi-agency checkpoint near the town boundary that resulted in 10 DUIs, multiple drug charges and dozens of traffic citations.
Captain Mullis provided the council with monthly and second-quarter police statistics and described a multi-agency DUI checkpoint that produced 10 DUI arrests and numerous other citations.
For the month of June the department logged 4,951 calls for service and filed 226 reports, Captain Mullis said. Traffic enforcement numbers included 86 forged-tag stops and 110 recreational-vehicle reports for the month; second-quarter officer averages showed roughly 623 calls per officer with about 413 of those self-initiated and 210 as 9-1-1 responses.
Captain Mullis described a checkpoint staged near Old Charlotte Highway and Rogers Road that involved the county sheriff's SAFE unit, the town's traffic unit and several neighboring agencies. "From 8 to 01:30 they had 10 DUIs," Captain Mullis said. He listed other checkpoint results: one under-21 driving-after-consuming arrest, eight drug charges, 24 driving-while-license-revoked tickets, 42 no-operator's-license citations, 36 registration violations, four seatbelt violations and five child-restraint violations. Officers also located two people with outstanding warrants.
He said the combined average response time across officers for calls was about 7.5 minutes. "I'm pretty proud of my folks for getting there and getting to these calls pretty quickly," he said.
Council members asked clarifying questions about the checkpoint timing and the Captain confirmed it operated overnight from about 8 p.m. into the early morning hours. No council action was requested or taken; the presentation served as an informational update.
