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Show d ex? : O i New Utah Highway Patrol Trooper in District L is Bryce ! Stromberg, formerly an officer with the Ogden City Police Department. He is married with two children, a ! 5-year-old girl and a 7-month-old boy. Born in Salt Lake ' City, he was schooled in Grantsville. Also new on the patrol in this district is Trooper John Mealey, who has 1 most recently been a member of the Moab Police J Department. ( Fewer troopers made j more arrests in 1977 j Highway Patrol Troopers in District L made 4,309 arrests in 1977 for moving violations, which is nearly a 20 per cent increase over 1976. Significant in this figure , comparison is the fact that the Green River-Hanksville area was split from the district during the year and the territory, plus several troopers, troop-ers, are not included in a good portion of the 1977 statistics, but were in 1976.' Most moving violations were accounted for by speeding speed-ing tickets, and more citations are being issued than warning ' tickets. In 1977 troopers issu- ed 3,141 warning tickets for moving violations compared 'with '2,266 in 1976. There were 1,223 arrests made for non-moving violations, a 25 per cent decrease under 1976. Property damage and personal per-sonal injury accident figures did not deviate significantly in 1977 from the 1976 level. There were 131 property damage da-mage accidents and 71 person al injury accidents investigat- ' ed by patrol troopers last J year. There were 18 fatal J accidents in the district, 14 of ! which were investigated by the patrol. Fatal accidents ! totaled 10 in 1976. j Troopers worked a total of J 15,062 hours, drove 244,158 J miles which incurred car costs ! of $15,872,89, and made 9,073 ! contacts with the public in ' 1977. There were 5,532 total j arrests and 3,541 total war- ; nings written. Drunk driving ; arrests for the year were 80 ' compared with 85 the prev- ! ious year. On the average during the ; year troopers worked 2152 : hours, drove 34,880 miles with ; 27 miles between each contact with the public, and incurred car costs of $2,267.51. j There were 127 arrests J made at accidents and 61 J arrests at personal injury j accidents. Two new troopers, J John Mealey and Bryce j Stromberg, are now with the j force in District L. j |