EDSO deputy arrested on DUI charges

El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy Tony Broadfoot was arrested Dec. 8 on driving under the influence charges.

A California Highway Patrol officer made the stop in South Lake Tahoe that evening about 7. Broadfoot was driving his personal vehicle.

“He is on paid administrative leave,” sheriff’s Lt. Bryan Golmitz told Lake Tahoe News.

The CHP is handling the criminal case, while EDSO conducts an administrative investigation.

Broadfoot joined the sheriff’s department in September 2012 after having been a K9 officer with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.

This past summer he was patrolling the Rubicon Trail as part of the department’s off-highway vehicle team.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report