Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Police Department on Thursday said it cleared more than 200 warrants by arrest in a four-day sweep of wanted DUI offenders across the Metro area.Authorities said the effort was targeted to proactively combat a 71 percent increase in traffic fatalities so far this year.
Police officials said thus far this year, Kansas City has had 24 fatal wrecks compared to 14 at this point in 2008.
Police are awaiting toxicology reports to determine how many of this year’s fatal wrecks involve drugs or alcohol. In 2008, 49 percent of Kansas City’s fatal wrecks involved drugs or alcohol, police said.
Sgt. Daniel Graves, supervisor of KCPD’s Traffic Investigation Section, said the four-day sweep already has exceeded its goal, which was to clear 100 state warrants with arrests.
Although the sweep officially ends at 5 p.m. Friday, some officers said they won’t halt the operation.
Reported results as of noon Friday are:
Warrants cleared
# 104 state warrants cleared by arrest
# 108 city warrants cleared by arrestNew arrests/violations during the course of the sweep
# 5 new drug arrests
# 10 other traffic violations
# 1 arrest and recovery of a stolen car
# 2 new driving while suspended arrests
# 11 hazardous ticket violations
# 1 minor in possession of alcohol arrestChecks
# 419 residence checks were conducted
# 21 car checks were conducted
# 15 pedestrian checks were conductedAdditionally, police said they discovered that a large number of suspects with outstanding warrants were deceased. These suspects comprised:
# 53 outstanding state warrants, 27 of which were DUI warrants
# 39 outstanding city warrants, 10 of which were DUI warrantsAuthorities said at least 50 of the subjects sought on outstanding DUI warrants are known to be out of the state, and another 20 are known to be incarcerated on other charges.