There Is A DWI Checkpoint In Keansburg Saturday Night

KEANSBURG, NJ — Heads up: There will be a DWI checkpoint this Saturday night, June 15, in Keansburg:

The checkpoint will be run from 10:30 p.m. Saturday through 2:30 a.m. Sunday on Hwy. 36.

The checkpoint is run by members of the Monmouth County DWI Task Force, a coalition of various police departments from across the region.

On Saturday night, task force members and officers from the Keansburg police department will pull vehicles from the westbound lanes into the Family Dollar Store parking lot to determine driver's sobriety, said Allenhurst Police Chief Michael B. Schneider, task force coordinator.

The same task force will run a DWI check in Brielle this Friday night, June 14.

It will be run on Hwy. 71 south from 10 p.m. Friday through 2 a.m. Saturday. Police will be pulling cars over from the southbound lanes into the Brielle municipal parking lot.

This weekend will be the first "back-to-back" weekend of Jersey Shore DWI checks for the summer season, Chief Schneider told Patch.

"Most of the checkpoints are on Fridays, but between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we do have some weekends where we do checkpoints on both Friday night and Saturday night," he said.