2-Time DUI Offender Arrested In Peninsula

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Officers nabbed a two-time convicted DUI driver on suspicion of driving on a suspended license in South San Francisco, police said on social media. Plato Barnes, 80, of South San Francisco, was arrested on Westborough Boulevard on suspicion of driving with a suspended license and
driving a vehicle without a required ignition interlock device Thursday and his vehicle was towed and impounded, according to police.

The arrest was part of the statewide DUI Hot List program, in which law enforcement officers across California are conducting surveillance operations on known DUI offenders with suspended driver's licenses.

The Hot List program is a partnership between local police departments, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Office of Traffic Safety. In this program, repeat DUI offenders with suspended driver's licenses are subject to surveillance.

The offenders on the list are provided a notice of their convictions, told about the Hot List program and warned not to drive, police said.

During one of these investigations, South San Francisco officers learned that Barnes was allegedly routinely driving his vehicle, police said.

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