
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 21, 1995                   TAG: 9505220074
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RUSTBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

BEDFORD DEPUTY GUILTY IN DUI CASE

A Bedford County sheriff's deputy who drove off a road and crashed into a fence has been convicted of drunken driving.

George T. Fairburn Jr., 24, had pleaded not guilty in Campbell County General District Court.

Judge Paul Whitehead Jr. found Fairburn guilty Friday and imposed a $350 fine, which he then suspended, and revoked Fairburn's driver's license for a year.

Fairburn was off duty from his job at the county's jail annex in Moneta when he drove off the road March 30. He was treated at Lynchburg General Hospital for a minor head injury.

State Trooper Jeff Brown administered a blood-alcohol test that revealed Fairburn's level was 0.15 percent, nearly twice the 0.08 legal limit.

Bedford County Sheriff Carl Wells said Fairburn was ``on break'' when the accident occurred. Jail deputies normally work seven 12-hour days and then are on break for a week, he said.

Wells said Fairburn was suspended from work without pay after the accident.

- Associated Press

by CNB