...(which isn't the greatest name for a task force) is out looking for drunk drivers over the holiday weekend. You have been warned.

Seattle Times:

Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, the State Patrol launched a new task force Thursday in three counties dedicated solely to hunting down intoxicated drivers and eliminating drunken-driving fatalities by 2030.

The "Target Zero" teams, made up of 21 troopers with the best records for arresting drunken drivers, will focus all their efforts on catching impaired drivers in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties.

Police officers and sheriff's deputies from more than 30 agencies in the counties will help when they can, the State Patrol said.

Soon after the announcement, a state trooper assigned to a King County team pulled over a 23-year-old man for allegedly driving 24 miles over the speed limit on Interstate 5 in Tukwila.

After taking sobriety tests, the man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. Police said a loaded .45-caliber pistol was discovered in the vehicle. The man was booked into the King County Jail on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Troopers dedicated the program's first shift Thursday to Nicholas Hodgins, Derek King and Anthony Beaver, victims in a June 10 drunken-driving collision on Interstate 5 in South King County. Hodgins and King, 18-year-old seniors at Decatur High School in Federal Way, were killed; Beaver, 19, was injured.