Ex-sheriff’s exec is convicted of DUI
A former top-ranking county sheriff’s administrator was convicted Friday of driving while intoxicated in his county-issued car.
California Highway Patrol officers arrested Michael Aranda, 62, in June after he failed a field sobriety test during a late-evening traffic stop on the 14 Freeway near Acton.
During a hearing at Los Angeles County Superior Court in Newhall, he pleaded no contest to driving with a blood-alcohol content above the legal limit, a misdemeanor.
Judge Graciela L. Freixes ordered Aranda to pay a $1,500 fine and placed him on probation for three years.
Aranda also was ordered to attend an alcohol-education program.
-- Stuart Pfeifer
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