BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2026) — Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office traffic deputies conducted two DUI saturation patrols across Palm Beach County this weekend, including a Super Bowl Sunday operation that ran Sunday night, and the agency reported 12 DUI arrests as part of the enforcement effort.
As we reported last week, PBSO said the patrols were set for Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, from 10:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., and Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m., which the agency flagged as Super Bowl Sunday.
In the department’s description of the operation, deputies were assigned to “high visibility enforcement of all traffic violations,” with an emphasis on removing impaired drivers from county roadways.
The Sheriff’s Office released a results summary combining the two nights. Across Feb. 6 and Feb. 8, the Traffic Division reported 73 traffic stops and 12 DUI arrests.
The Sheriff’s Office also reported one felony arrest and eight misdemeanor arrests tied to the saturation patrols, along with 17 criminal citations. The agency’s summary also listed 19 traffic citations and 63 traffic warnings issued during the operations.
PBSO described the enforcement effort as a Traffic Division saturation patrol, meaning deputies were out specifically to conduct visible traffic enforcement while focusing on impaired driving, according to the department’s advisory.
The authority for the operation sits with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Division, which announced the patrols in a media advisory and released the totals after the two enforcement periods concluded.
The Sheriff’s Office did not provide a breakdown in the release showing where the 73 stops occurred inside the county, including whether any of the enforcement activity was concentrated in or near Boca Raton. The agency also did not list the underlying offenses associated with the felony and misdemeanor arrests, beyond the DUI arrest total, in the results summary provided.
What PBSO did make clear is that the patrols covered both a late-night enforcement window early Saturday morning, following the Friday night shift, and an evening enforcement window on Sunday, Feb. 8, during the Super Bowl Sunday period. The Traffic Division said the intent was to keep enforcement visible and to focus on impaired drivers as part of broader traffic enforcement during the listed hours.
The results provide a snapshot of enforcement activity during those two scheduled patrol windows: 73 stops in total, 12 DUI arrests, and a combined mix of arrests, citations, and warnings issued by deputies working traffic enforcement during that period.
For residents in Boca Raton and elsewhere in Palm Beach County, the Sheriff’s Office message in the advisory was straightforward: deputies were conducting high-visibility enforcement of traffic violations and focusing on impaired driving during the specified time windows, and the reported totals reflect the enforcement activity PBSO says occurred on those two dates.
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