A now-former Washington County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to four months in the workhouse and four years’ probation for driving drunk while off duty and crashing head-on into a family’s SUV on an Afton highway, seriously injuring the driver, who was heading to an apple orchard with his wife and several children.

Campbell Johnston Blair, 59, of Hastings, was intoxicated and wearing his sheriff’s office uniform while heading south on Minnesota 95 (St. Croix Trail) at Scenic Lane just after 10:30 a.m. Oct. 27, 2024. His duty pistol was on the front passenger seat.

Erik and Heather Sward, of Woodbury, were on their way to an apple orchard to celebrate their daughter’s second birthday. The couple’s two other children, ages 6 and 8, and their two cousins, 7 and 9, were also in the 202

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