Detective Pleads Guilty to DUI, Hit-and-Run

Detective DUI

A San Diego County sheriff’s detective has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor
drunken driving and hit-and-run charges stemming from a pair of crashes in
Palm Desert last summer, when she struck several parked cars and ran over a
pedestrian’s foot. Forty-eight-year-old Barbara Jean Crozier appeared in a
courtroom in Indio to plead guilty to not reporting an accident, DUI with
injury, hit-and-run property damage and driving under the influence. She’s free
on $50,000 bail and is scheduled to be sentenced March 20.

Cannonball Death

An East County man accused of fatally injuring his girlfriend when he shot a homemade cannon into his mobile home is scheduled to be arraigned today.

Richard Dale Fox was booked into county jail Tuesday on suspicion of detonating an explosive device in a manner resulting in death. The couple’s 4-year-old daughter and three adults were in the residence at the time but they weren’t hurt. Fox is due in court in El Cajon early this afternoon to enter a plea.

Weather Watch

It will be sunny today with areas of patchy frost this morning and light winds this afternoon. Highs today will be 68 to 73 degrees along the coast ... 72 to 77 inland ... 73 to 78 in the western valleys ... 68 to 73 near the foothills ... 54 to 64 in the mountains and 70 to 75 in the deserts.

-City News Service