Summer enforcement project nets Ky. arrests

WKMS | By The Associated Press

Published September 7, 2012 at 8:23 AM CDT

After three months of stepped-up enforcement on Kentucky's highways, police say the project resulted in apprehension of 41 fugitives as well as thousands of drunken-driving and drug arrests. The effort, called Operation B.L.U.E. Lights, began June 1^st and ended Labor Day. Kentucky State Police held over 1,600 safety checkpoints across the Commonwealth to draw attention to unsafe driving and reduce traffic deaths. Over 2,000 D-U-I arrests and almost 1,500 hundred drug arrests were made. Officers also wrote about 9,000 seat belt citations during the campaign. K-S-P Major Mike Crawford says the agency will continue such enforcement projects to reduce highway deaths.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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