A San Diego Police Department detective recently pleaded not guilty to drinking and driving charges. According to CBS affiliate KFMB, 34-year-old Jeffrey David Blackford was allegedly off duty and driving his undercover police car when he crashed the vehicle into a roadside utility box in Allied Gardens on December 7. Blackford needed to be treated at a local hospital for injuries he sustained during the crash.

According to The Associated Press, Blackford was charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence with a special allegation of reckless speeding. He is scheduled to appear in court on March 27 and currently faces between four days and six months in jail along with standard fines if he is convicted.

Factual errors found within the police reports may prove otherwise
The San Diego Union-Tribune investigative team obtained information that showed several discrepancies in the original police report filed on Blackford's crash. The team discovered there were numerous officers at the scene of the crash but there was a two-hour delay before a traffic investigation began. In addition, the source alleges the officers at the scene waited over three hours to administer a breath test to Blackford for the official DUI investigation. Once they did, Blackford blew a 0.09 percent, which is just over the legal limit. The source also reported that there was a delay in entering the event into the department's dispatch system.

The department has yet to respond to the Union-Tribune's records request for police duty logs as well as other documentation that would prove Blackford was off-duty at the time of the crash.