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Teen Charged with Underage DUI, Littering in Saugus
| Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
SCV Sheriff's Station -- teen DUI

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies arrested a local teenaged driver on charges of underage DUI and littering in Saugus on Sunday, according to a post on the station’s Facebook page.

Here’s the story:

We don’t need to lose any more young people in traffic collisions. What started out as a minor litter violation ended up as a DUI arrest.

Sunday around 3:19 a.m., a deputy patrolling parking lots around businesses in Saugus saw a car with fast food wrappers tossed out of the driver’s door. Perhaps some may think that’s petty to cite for, but this is our home and your home, and we’re trying to keep it nice. Trash cans exist for a reason.

It’s a good thing the deputy conducted a traffic stop for the littering because it turned out the 19-year-old male driver was driving under the influence. His blood alcohol level was at .070, under the legal limit, but for underage DUIs, there is ZERO TOLERANCE.

The SCV teen was arrested and transported to the station. It’s a tough lesson to learn, between fines and possible driver’s license suspension but we’re just thankful he is okay, and that he didn’t hurt himself or anyone else while behind the wheel of a car.
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17 Comments

  1. Marshall Grise says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    WOW HEADLINE NEWS

    Reply
  2. Jeanne says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    He should not be drinking (although apparently drunk) or littering but why is this a story?

    Whoever wrote this sounds like a hall monitor.

    Reply
  3. Greg Brown says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Let’s hope that the kid learned his lesson this time. And, yesMarshall , this should be news.

    Reply
  4. Justin Stoner says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Why is this news

    Reply
  5. Marshall Grise says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    This just in, dog pees on tree.

    Reply
  6. William Berndt says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    This idiot could take your life or a loved one. Not only has it been driving since breakfast, it’s drunk

    Reply
  7. Jennifer R Robles-Castaneda says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Thank you for sharing and may the kid pay the consequences

    Reply
  8. Eric Baker says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Wouldn’t be surprised, if he learned it from his parents.

    Reply
  9. Savannah Lynn says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Chada Moody

    Reply
  10. Laurie Rorick says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    I see this kind of littering more and more, hate to see their houses. Good job, LASD!

    Reply
  11. Patrick Marchese Markeyzee says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    SAVING LIVES ONE BY ONE

    Reply
  12. Danielle Esqueda - Chavez says:
    Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 at

    Sad

    Reply
  13. Kristine Stump Knowles says:
    Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 at

    He is legally an adult , so quit calling him a “teen”

    Reply
  14. Jeanne says:
    Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 at

    I meant to say he was NOT drunk. Maybe he had a beer, he should not have. He was NOT a drunk driver about to plow down a family. He was a litter bug. Bad.

    This is not news and the person who wrote the article sounds like a hall monitor that everyone hates.

    Reply
  15. Jeanne says:
    Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 at

    Wait a minute. As I read this story again it says the deputy was “patrolling a parking lot and saw wrappers on the ground by the driver door of a car”. So the guy was parked and the trash may or may not have been his?

    He was not drunk but was tested anyway? The guy was not even driving. He was parked. Was he homeless and sleeping there?

    And Nineteen is a teenager. It even has “teen in it” LOL

    Reply
  16. Amy Coan Spaulding says:
    Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 at

    19..not really a teen…legal adult.

    Reply
  17. Roger A. Moore says:
    Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 at

    Good job. Thank You, Sheriffs.

    Reply

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