{"id":1736,"date":"2012-06-17T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/can-police-hold-my-car-after-dui-arrest\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:47:45","slug":"can-police-hold-my-car-after-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/can-police-hold-my-car-after-dui-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the police hold my car after a DUI arrest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It happens hundreds of times every day throughout this country, someone is arrested for a DUI.\u00a0 But what happens to the car?\u00a0 In many instances the police will leave the car parked in the same spot where you were pulled over and simply lock the keys inside the car.\u00a0 In other instances, the police will choose to impound the vehicle.\u00a0 When the cops impound a car they must allow the driver to pick it up when he or she is released.\u00a0 Are there ever occasions where the car will be held?\u00a0 Yes, if the person has a suspended license the police can hold the car for up to 30 days.\u00a0 According to one Torrance DUI Lawyer <\/a>the police will often release the vehicle to a family member if the person has a valid license.\u00a0 recently, the LAPD implemented a policy to avoid the confiscation of vehicles from non-licensed drivers who are mostly immigrants without the ability to obtain a CA license legally.<\/p>\n

The other way the police can hold a car is if it is needed for evidence, such as is the case when a hit and run is part of the arrest.\u00a0 Having a lawyer get involved early in the process will ensure the car is not held illegitimately or for an unreasonable period of time.\u00a0 As\u00a0 one local DUI Attorney in Torrance <\/a>explains;\u00a0 “the police will drag their feet forever when there is no lawyer pushing for a resolution”.\u00a0 In these hit and run cases, the car can be released once the detective collects any evidence that may be needed for the investigation.\u00a0 But as with anything else, if you do not push them they will not be in any hurry to let you pick up the vehicle.\u00a0 This is very important when the storage fees\u00a0 can easily be 50 bucks a day.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, the only time the cops should hold your car after a dui arrest is when some other crime other than the DUI is being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It happens hundreds of times every day throughout this country, someone is arrested for a DUI.\u00a0 But what happens to the car?\u00a0 In many instances the police will leave the car parked in the same spot where you were pulled over and simply lock the keys inside the car.\u00a0 In other instances, the police will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,20,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-dui-law-blog","category-california-traffic-ticket-blog","category-know-your-rights-constitutional-law-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}