Las Vegas police have published the full results of their Halloween DUI Blitz, and the numbers show how hard officers worked the valley's roads on one of the busiest party nights of the year. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said on Monday, November 2, that its officers and partner agencies made 271 traffic stops during the Halloween operation on Saturday, October 31, issued 171 citations, arrested 25 drivers on suspicion of driving under the influence, made 3 further arrests and towed 28 vehicles — all in stormy weather that moved through the Las Vegas area during the night.
Source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Metro did not run the operation alone. The department thanked its own patrol and traffic officers, dispatchers and a phlebotomist — the specialist who draws blood samples in DUI cases — and credited three partner agencies that joined the effort: Henderson Police, the Clark County School District Police Department and Nevada State Police. The results were not broken down agency by agency, so it is not known how many of the stops or arrests each department handled, the Las Vegas Review-Journal noted in its report of the figures.
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal via News In Las Vegas
A wet Halloween night on valley roads
The blitz targeted drivers suspected of impairment on roads across the Las Vegas Valley on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31. Metro said the operation went ahead despite challenging, stormy conditions. News 3 Las Vegas, in its Monday morning roundup of the same police figures, summed up the department's message to drivers in one line: if you are drinking, do not drive. Halloween is one of the heaviest drinking nights of the American year, and it fell on a Saturday this year, which put more party traffic than usual on valley roads at the same time as the storms.
Source: News 3 Las Vegas via Vegas Daily Wire
The 25 DUI arrests are allegations at this stage: each arrested driver faces the DUI process in the Clark County courts, and a charge is not a conviction. Metro released the results on Monday, two days after the operation, in a public post setting out the stop, citation, arrest and tow totals in full.
Why Metro is doubling its blitzes for the holidays
The Halloween operation is part of a deliberate escalation. In an October 12 briefing reported by FOX5, Metro traffic leaders — Traffic Lt. Bret Ficklin and Sgt. Jakob Shallenberger — said the department was doubling its DUI blitzes from one weekend a month to two a month from October through December, the stretch they described as the busiest and deadliest period on valley roads. Each blitz puts roughly 30 additional officers on the streets, on top of the DUI patrols Metro already runs every night. The reason is the toll the blitzes are meant to cut: 95 people had died on Clark County roadways so far in 2026 at the time of that briefing, although that figure was down more than 20 percent on the same point last year.
Source: FOX5 via Las Vegas Newsroom
The Halloween blitz also closed out a month of grant-funded traffic enforcement across the valley. The Clark County School District Police Department — one of Metro's Halloween partners — received grant funds from the Nevada Department of Public Safety's Office of Traffic Safety, with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, for the Joining Forces Pedestrian Safety Campaign, which ran from October 10 to October 31 and targeted speeding, distracted and impaired driving in high-visibility locations, FOX5 reported.
Enforcement does not end with Halloween. With blitzes now running twice a month through December, drivers on the Las Vegas Valley's main corridors — Interstate 15, US-95 and the resort corridor — should expect more checkpoints and patrols on party weekends through the holidays. For the Punjabi truckers who run I-15 between California, Las Vegas and Utah, and for valley residents heading to holiday parties, the practical advice from police is unchanged: plan a sober ride before the first drink, because a DUI arrest can cost a licence, a job and, for commercial drivers, a livelihood.
How Halloween compares with earlier blitzes
Metro has run the same playbook through 2026. A June blitz produced almost identical headline numbers — 25 DUI arrests and 3 other arrests — with 233 citations issued and 35 vehicles towed, and officers recovered one firearm during that operation. The Memorial Day weekend blitz was bigger still: 79 DUI arrests, 398 citations and 92 vehicles towed. Halloween's 271 stops sit between those operations in scale, achieved on a night when storms were already making driving conditions harder across the valley.
What happens next is twofold. In court, the drivers arrested on Halloween begin moving through Clark County's DUI process, where penalties on conviction can include fines, licence action and jail time under Nevada law. On the roads, Metro's doubled blitz calendar runs on through November and December — the department has said drivers can expect an increased law-enforcement presence on valley roads for the rest of the holiday season.