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Indian Trail police report 10 DUIs and dozens of enforcement actions during multi-agency checkpoint
Summary
The police update described a multi-agency DUI checkpoint near the town border that yielded 10 DUIs, eight drug charges and dozens of other citations; department statistics for the quarter and average officer response times were also presented.
Captain Mullis delivered the law-enforcement update, reporting departmental and regional enforcement activity and departmental averages for the second quarter.
Mullis said officers handled 4,951 calls for service in June and filed 226 reports for the month. For April–June the department's per-officer averages included about 623 total calls, 413 self-initiated calls, 25 reports and about five arrests; Mullis said the combined average response time across units was roughly 7.5 minutes.
He described a multi-agency checkpoint run by the county sheriff's SAFE unit at Old Charlotte Highway and Rogers Road the night of Saturday, July 5. Agencies participating included Indian Trail traffic and enforcement units, the county sheriff's SAFE unit, the Monroe and Waxhaw police departments, Highway Patrol and others. Mullis said the checkpoint produced 10 DUIs, eight drug charges, 24 driving while license revoked tickets, 42 no-operator's-license citations, 36 registration violations, four seat belt violations, five child restraint violations and multiple other misdemeanor and traffic charges; officers also arrested two people on outstanding warrants.
"Those guys really knocked it out of the park with that," Mullis said, praising the interagency operation.
Mullis noted the checkpoint produced additional DUI investigations and two DRE (drug recognition) evaluations. He said the checkpoint was close to, but just outside, the town limits and expressed appreciation that Indian Trail units could assist on the operation.
Council members asked about the timing of the checkpoint and Mullis confirmed it ran from about 8 p.m. into the early morning hours. No formal council action was taken on the law-enforcement update.
