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>> EVERY YEAR POLICE CRACK DOWN ON DRUNKEN DRIVING FOR NEW YEARS BUT WE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SUSPECTS AFTER THE CUFFS COME OFF SO TARGET 7 COMBED THROUGH COURT RECORDS TODAY AND FOUND OUT LAST YEAR THESE TEN PEOPLE WERE CUFFED AND PUT IN JAIL FOR ALLEGEDLY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED DURING NEW YEAR’S, COURT RECORDS SHOW. DESPITE THOSE WARNINGS, EVERY YEAR POLICE ARREST NEARLY A DOZEN PEOPLE IN BERNALILLO COUNTY FOR DRINKING AND DRIVING IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS 76 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR DWI DURING THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY IN BERNALILLO COUNTY THE 76 PEOPLE WHO WERE ARRESTED, THEY ARE NOT OUT THERE CAUSING CRASHES. >> BUT WHAT HAPPENS ONCE THE SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED FROM JAIL AND END UP HERE IN A COURT ROOM. TARGET 7 DID SOME DIGGING AND LOOKED INTO THE 10 ARRESTS FROM NEW YEAR EVE AND NEW YEARS DAY A YEAR AGO WE FOUND: 5 PEOPLE WERE EVENTUALLY CONVICTED 3 OF THE CASES WERE THROWN OUT OF COU 1 PERSON WENT TO TRIAL AND A JURY FOUND HIM NOT GUILTY AND THIS PERSON HAS A TRAIL SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK IT’S FRUSTRATING BECAU IT IS SO EASY TO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, IT SHOULD BE EASILY PUNISHABLE. >> <"WE SHOULD HAVE 100 PERCENT CONVICTIONS. IT IS 100 PERCENT PREVENTABLE AND IT IS LIFE SAVING NOT TO DRINK ANDD DRIVE."> >> HOPEFULLY THIS YEAR NO MO PICTURES ARE ADDED TO THIS SHRINE HONORING VICTIMS AT MADD’S HEADQUARTERS >> STAY WITH ACTION 7 NEWS AS WE WILL BE FOLLOWING POLICE AS THEY CRACK DOWN ON DWI. DURING OUR NEWSCASTS TOMORROW WE WILL BE CATCHING UP WITH DWI COPS TO TALK ABOUT THE NIGHT THE

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Last year, 10 people were cuffed and put in jail for allegedly driving while intoxicated during the New Year's holiday, court records show.But only half of them have been punished.“It's no secret we are going to be out there and we are going to stop you. We are going to find you and we are going to arrest you if you are drinking and driving,” New Mexico State Police Officer Ray Wilson said.Despite those warnings, every year, police arrest nearly a dozen people in Bernalillo County on drunken driving charges.In the past five years, 76 people have been arrested in the county for DWI during the holiday. “Those 76 people arrested are not out there causing crashes, and luckily we were able to stop them before they got into a crash and hurt somebody else or themselves,” Wilson said.But what happens once the suspects are released from jail?Target 7 did some digging and looked into the 10 arrests from New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day a year ago.Court records show: Five people were eventually convicted. Three of the cases were thrown out of court. One person went to trial and a jury found him not guilty.Another person has a trial scheduled for next week."It's frustrating, because it is so easy to make that choice to not drink and drive. It should be punishable very quickly,” said Joan Halsell, a board member of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "We should have 100 percent convictions. It is 100 percent preventable, and it is life-saving not to drink and drive."