Crime & Safety
San Diego Detective Gets 90 Days in DUI arrest
Barbara Crozier is sentenced to home detention and five years probation for DUI hit-and-run last August.
Barabara Crozier was sentenced today to 90 days monitored home detention and five years probation for her DUI hit-and-run in Palm Desert .
Riverside Superior Court Judge Harold W. Hopp handed down the sentence this afternoon. The sentence also calls for fines and restituition, and for Crozier to enroll in a first time drunken driver program.
Judge Hopp struck down some recommendations from the 17-page Probation Department report due to Crozier's employment with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Those terms had to do primarily with Crozier's job functions.
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Prior to sentencing, Crozier was praised by Riverside County Prosecutor Gypsy Yeager for her service to law enforcement, and for her willingness to enroll in a treatment program following her arrest.
Judge Hopp also mentioned Crozier's status at a law enforcement officer as a reason to allow her to serve the typical 90-day first DUI sentence at home as opposed to an overcrowded Riverside County facility, where in Hopp's words "she would serve nowhere close to 90 days."
