Uniontown Area DUI Checkpoint Results In Pursuit

July 15, 2019 3:35 pm

Pennsylvania State Police say a pursuit occurred following a DUI Checkpoint over the 4th of July weekend in Uniontown.  According to police, the checkpoint was set up along State Route 119 outside Uniontown on the evening of July 5 where they managed to make three DUI arrests, issue 34 traffic citations and hand out 17 written warnings.  In addition, an unidentified man was arrested after police say he fled the checkpoint and crashed his car multiple times, one time hitting a house, before coming to a stop on a dead end road where he fled on foot and was stopped with a taser. He was charged with two counts of fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest, and DUI.