Officer gets 10 months

An Anaheim police officer was sentenced to less than a year for crashing through a backyard fence in Huntington Beach while under the influence of four prescription drugs and also for two previous arrests for DUI.

Kevin Noel Schlueter, 37, of Costa Mesa, was sentenced to 10 months in jail last week after pleading guilty to three counts of driving under the influence of drugs, all misdemeanors, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

Schlueter will spend six months of the sentence in a residential drug treatment center.

At 9:30 p.m. June 21, Schlueter was driving along Oakridge Lane in Huntington Beach when he crashed his car through a backyard fence.

He was off duty and driving his personal car.

Schlueter sat in his car with the engine running until the Huntington Beach police got to the scene and arrested him.

He was found to be taking hydrocodone, hydromorphone, meprobamate and carisoprodol at the time of the crash.

Almost a year prior, Schlueter was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of prescription drugs on the San Diego (405) Freeway and again two months later in Costa Mesa where he crashed into four parked cars.