Holiday Arizona DUI Task Force Will Start November 27, 2008

Beginning Thursday, more police and sheriff's deputies will hit the streets in search of drunk drivers. Law enforcement statewide is participating in the Holiday DUI Task Force, which runs Thanksgiving through New Year's Day. In Arizona last year, 336 people were killed in crashes where a driver was intoxicated or drug-impaired. The Governor's Office of Highway Safety coordinates the crackdown, which can include saturation patrols, DUI checkpoints and youth alcohol enforcement. A total of 2,828 Arizona DUI arrests were made during the 2007 holiday task-force period.

The legal drinking limit in Arizona is 0.08 percent, but drivers with a lesser blood-alcohol content can be cited for DUI if impaired to "the slightest degree."DUI offenders face a minimum 10-day jail term, fines and license suspensions and must install an ignition-interlock device in their vehicles.

Lindsey Collom - The Arizona Republic

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DUI Driver Faces A Nine Year Term After Killing Teen

The man responsible for killing a 17-year-old high school band student in Chandler two years ago in a drunk-driving collision has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Raymond Kohan's sentence for manslaughter was made public Monday, just three days after another East Valley teen on her way to a high school band performance was killed when she and her brother were hit almost head-on by a suspected impaired driver.
Kohan, 35, was sentenced last Thursday.
Kohan had a blood-alcohol level of 0.155 when he ran a red light, crashing his Mercedes-Benz SUV into Sean Andjuar's sedan. The car burst into flames with Andujar still inside.
The teen, the leader of the percussion section, was headed to Sonic Brass band concert at the Chandler Center for the Arts. Andujar lived in Chandler but attended Marcos de Niza in Tempe.
After Kohan was convicted by a jury on July 1, 2008, Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman, a friend of Kohan and his family, came under fire for submitting a letter to a judge asking for leniency in Kohan's sentence despite the defendant having two prior DUI convictions in the state. Berman later retracted his letter and publicly apologized.

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