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Former Virginia Beach deputy sentenced in DUI crash case
Posted on Jun 27, 2010
A former Virginia Beach sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced after entering a guilty plea for charges stemming from a DUI accident that left two people seriously injured.
The accident happened in March 2009 when Lisa Marie Schettler, 24, was driving while intoxicated and swerved into oncoming traffic, crashing into another vehicle. The occupants of the other vehicle, Donald Gay, 63, and his wife Elaine Gay, 62, were injured in the collision.
Mr. Gay broke bones in one of his wrists while his wife sustained injuries to her knees and ankles. Schettler was charged with reckless driving under the influence with permanent victim impairment and second DUI conviction in a five year period.
Schettler was first arrested for drunk driving in January 2009 when she was working as a deputy. She was fired as a result, and two months later was found to have a BAC of 0.44 after hitting the Gays. According to police in the case Schettler did not remember the accident at all nor could she remember what she was doing before the accident.
The judge in the case sentenced Schettler to six years in jail, with 1 1/2 years suspended if she agrees to supervised probation, completes an alcohol program and completes 10 years of good behavior.
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