Police issue 130-plus speeding tickets in 5 days on Route 1A

If you drove one of the vehicles that was stopped last week by police on Route 1A between Ellsworth and Holden, you had a lot of company. According to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, their deputies and officers with other agencies stopped 160 vehicles on that 22.5-mile stretch of road Aug. 3 through Aug. 7. During that five-day period, police conducted six concentrated traffic enforcement details, each only four hours long, the sheriff’s department indicated in a prepared press release.