Holiday checkpoints on city roads netted Vicksburg police 126 citations this year, about the same as last year, said the department’s deputy chief.

Police made 38 arrests and recorded 52 seat belt violations at roadblocks on four days during the holidays. The checkpoints were part of a statewide “Click It or Ticket” campaign intended to encourage seat belt use.

Numbers from 2006 were not available, but Deputy Chief Richard O’Bannon said this year’s numbers were “about the norm.”

The Warren County Sheriff’s Department did not set up checkpoints. However, DUI arrests in Warren County in late December and on New Year’s Eve totaled two — one by the sheriff’s department and one by Mississippi Highway Patrol.

“It was –knock on wood — a very quiet year,” Sheriff Martin Pace said of the holiday week.

This year’s numbers reflected last year’s for the sheriff’s department, which made two DUI arrests during December 2006.

Vicksburg police checkpoints saw two DUI arrests.

“People get the message of don’t drink and drive, but the seat belt message has been harder to get across,” O’Bannon said.

Vicksburg police checkpoints included Porters Chapel, Halls Ferry and Warrenton roads.

Traffic stops can often result in arrests for outstanding warrants. One such netted a man wanted by U.S. Marshals on drug charges that originated in Concord, N.H.

Andre Demetrius Warren, 35, was a passenger in a white Lincoln Town Car stopped at Dabney Drive and Warrenton Road on Christmas Eve, according to police reports. The driver did not have a valid photo I.D., and Warren wasn’t wearing a seat belt. When checked by police, Warren’s name was found in a national criminal database.

“Once we ran his personal info, that was it,” said Vicksburg Police Investigator Troy Kimble.

Warren was wanted by U.S. Marshals in New Hampshire on a cocaine sale charge. He told police his address was 1514 Baum St. He was turned over to U.S. Marshals in Jackson and is awaiting extradition to New Hampshire.

James McIntosh of the U.S. Marshals Department in Jackson said he did not know how old Warren’s charges were.