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Continuing through the Memorial Day holiday, the Maui Police Department’s Traffic Division will conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols. The public can expect an increased police presence, including using unmarked vehicles.

Beginning Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, and continuing through the weekend, the Maui Police Department – Traffic Division will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols at various locations to address impaired driving over the Big Game weekend.  

Maui police have launched an impaired driving enforcement campaign that will continue through the holiday weekend. The departmentʻs Traffic Division will conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols at various locations as part of the effort.

The Maui Police Department kicked off its impaired driving enforcement campaign, which will run through the Memorial Day weekend. The MPD Traffic Division will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols as part of the increased enforcement effort. The public can also expect an increase in police presence utilizing unmarked vehicles. 

The Maui Police Department, Traffic Division issued 383 citations and 68 warnings for various traffic violations and infractions in February. For the month of February, the DUI Task Force, along with other officers from the Solo Bike Detail and the Vehicular Homicide Unit, made 33 arrests of motorists operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, and 27 arrests for various other offenses.

The Maui Police Department’s Traffic Division will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols at various locations to address impaired driving over the Fourth of July holiday.

The Maui Police Department is proud to announce the promotion of Nicholas Krau to the rank of Lieutenant, scheduled to take effect on Jan. 16, 2023.

A 73-year-old male from Lahaina was riding an electric bike on Front Street Saturday night when he was struck from behind by a truck whose driver was impaired. The cyclist later died of his injuries at Maui Memorial Medical Center.

The Maui Police Department’s Traffic Division will conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols at various locations to address impaired driving over the upcoming holiday weekend. The added enforcement begins Friday, July 2 and continues through the Fourth of July weekend.

The Maui Police Department arrested 10 individuals for impaired driving during enforcement campaigns conducted during the 2021 Graduation and Memorial Day weekend.

One of those arrests was made on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, during the Maui Police Department’s Cinco De Mayo impaired driving enforcement campaign. Under the authority of the Maui County Tow Ordinance MPD Traffic officers towed the vehicle following the impaired driving arrest.

The Maui Police Department’s Traffic Section will be cracking down on impaired driving as part of the annual holiday “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” nationwide campaign.

The enforcement campaign runs through Jan. 2, 2016. Police say they are actively searching for impaired drivers.

The enforcement campaign runs from now until Jan. 2, 2016. Maui police will be increasing the number of patrols, and setting up intoxication control checkpoints.