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State Patrol: 43 Impaired Drivers Arrested

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Forty-three impaired drivers were arrested between noon Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Of those drivers, a reported 21 of the arrests took place in the metro area.

Lt. Eric Roeske, public information officer for the Minnesota State Patrol, said last year for that same time frame, troopers arrested 35 people for DWI. About half of those arrests were in the metro.

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