{"id":464963,"date":"2010-03-23T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fd2514a970c"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:02:58","slug":"o-c-deputy-who-crashed-in-frontyard-of-county-supervisors-villa-park-home-charged-with-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/464963","title":{"rendered":"O.C. deputy who crashed in frontyard of county supervisor&#8217;s Villa Park home charged with drunk driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy was allegedly drunk when he crashed into a planter in the frontyard of a county supervisor\u2019s home and will be charged with driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, prosecutors said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wayne Hewlett, 30, of Orange had left a friend\u2019s house after a night of drinking on Dec. 13 when he lost control of his vehicle, drove across a front lawn and crashed into a planter in the frontyard Orange County Supervisor Bill Campbell\u2019s Villa Park home, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p>Hewlett was on his way home at the time of the incident and happened to drive through the neighborhood where the supervisor lives, said Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Brock Zimmon. <\/p>\n<p>A passing driver told authorities he saw the crash and alerted his father, who called 911.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>About one hour and 45 minutes after the crash, Hewlett had a blood alcohol of level of .13% \u2013 above the legal limit of .08%, prosecutors said. The deputy, they added,\u00a0was also in possession of the drug Xanax without a prescription. <\/p>\n<p>Hewlett has returned to full-duty status. A personnel investigation is pending, said sheriff\u2019s spokesman John McDonald. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Paloma Esquivel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy was allegedly drunk when he crashed into a planter in the frontyard of a county supervisor\u2019s home and will be charged with driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, prosecutors said Tuesday. Mark Wayne Hewlett, 30, of Orange had left a friend\u2019s house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}