The Southern Arizona DUI Task Force made 54 drunk-driving arrests over the weekend during a two-day deployment targeting local graduation celebrations.
Only two of the citations issued were for felony DUI, but 14 of them were for individuals whose blood-alcohol content was 0.15 or above, according to figures provided by the task force.
The legal limit in Arizona is 0.08.
Six citations were for drunk-drivers under the age of 21 and three arrests involved people with previous DUI charges.
Police also cited 94 people for underage drinking.
A total of 530 people were contacted during the Friday and Saturday deployments, with an additional 459 citations issued for various moving and non-moving violations such as not wearing a seatbelt or not having a child properly restrained.
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