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Off-duty police officer pleads guilty to drink-driving after car crash

GUILTY PLEA: Off-duty police officer Kristy Lea Madden pleads guilty to two charges in Toronto Local Court. Photo: File

AN OFF-DUTY police officer who crashed her car and refused a breath test with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit has pleaded guilty to the charges against her.

Kristy Lea Madden, 43, entered a plea of guilty for refusing to submit to a breath test and high-range drink-driving in Toronto Local Court on Monday.

Madden, a senior constable attached to a specialist command, came to police's attention after she was involved in a single-car crash just before 9pm, March 28.

Highway patrol officers were called to Goodwins Road at Morrisset, when they arrived Madden refused a breath test.

She was taken to Toronto Police Station, where she returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.208 and police suspended her licence.

Madden will be sentenced at the end of June.

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