A traffic operation over the weekend netted more than just tickets and DUI arrests.

A missing teen was found by officers on the lookout for drunk drivers at a checkpoint on U.S. 501 Friday night.

The 16-year-old was a runaway from Robeson County.

Police say a car was approaching the checkpoint when the driver noticed the officers stopping each driver and immediately turned around and tried to drive away. An officer stopped her and they ran her name through a police database.

The teen was reported missing on June 16 by her father, but he told police she'd been missing for a week before he filed the report.

"A check of her name through DCI came back as not having a valid license," said Chris Jackson, a Governor Highway Safety officer for Laurinburg police. "It also came back as a missing person from Robeson County. Robeson County was contacted and the missing person's father came to the Laurinburg Police Department and picked her up."

The operation, which was scheduled to run from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, ended early because officers ran out of tickets to issue.

"This was my first DWI check point and I think it went very well," Jackson said. "We had three (minors) with possession of alcohol on the way to the beach, two of the three just drove up with the alcohol in their laps."

Jackson said 58 charges were given out during the operation.

In the operation:

• Two were charged with driving while impaired

• Two were charged with parole violations

• Two were charged with drug possession

• One citation was issued for having an open container

• Two citations were issued for possession of drug paraphernalia

• Three citations were issued for possession of alcohol by a minor

• 16 citations were issued for expired tags

• Six citations were issued for inspection violations

• Nine citations were issued for no operating license

• Three citations were issued for child restraint violations

• Two other traffic-related citations were issued.

The Laurinburg Police Department was the lead agency in the operation. Also participating were the Scotland County Sheriff's Office, Wagram police, the Laurinburg Fire Department, Wadesboro police, probation officers and the Laurinburg Citizens on Patrol.

"It is our goal to make the highways and streets a safer place in our communities," Jackson said.