Washington State Patrol trooper recently made his 4,000th DUI arrest

Trooper Barry Marcus, a Spokane-based veteran of the Washington State Patrol (WSP), made his 4,000th career DUI arrest April 30, the agency reported in a statement to the press Friday.

Marcus has spent 23 years of his 32-year career with the WSP on the state’s roads working the weekend night shift — Wednesday through Saturday — when the dangers of impaired driving are particularly pressing.

In a related video released by the WSP, Marcus spoke about the tragedies he has seen in his career, along with the agony of delivering next of kin notifications in collisions where impaired driving was involved.

“People haven’t had to do that or see

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