Local News in Brief : Ex-CHP Officer Draws Year in Jail for Crash
Aformer California Highway Patrol officer was sentenced Thursday to a year in County Jail and three years’ probation for felony drunk driving.
A Van Nuys Superior Court jury in June found the former officer, Richard A. Campbell, 35, guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and causing injury in an August, 1985 crash in Woodland Hills.
Campbell and his two passengers, all off-duty CHP officers, were injured when Campbell’s car, traveling nearly 100 m.p.h., smashed into a light pole and bus shelter near Ventura Boulevard and De Soto Avenue, police said.
Campbell was dismissed from the CHP after the collision, authorities said.
Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Richard G. Kolostian ordered Campbell to begin serving his jail term Nov. 7. Campbell could have received up to three years in state prison.
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