Jennifer Edwards Baker

jbaker@enquirer.com

Police will be out looking for drunk drivers Friday night in Hamilton and Clermont counties.

Checkpoints will be held 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. in the 7600 block of Colerain Avenue in Colerain Township and 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on U.S. 50 west of Ohio 132 in Ownesville.

Patrols also will be stepped up in the area.

Law enforcement officials are required by law to give advance public notice of these operations.