The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that its Regional Crime Laboratory has received a $585,000 state grant to aid in its continuing efforts to combat impaired driving.
The funding is provided by a California Office of Traffic Safety grant funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and runs through September 2026.
The grant will be used to fund two full-time crime lab toxicology criminalists specializing in the analysis of biological samples for the presence of alcohol and drugs.
A criminalist is a hands-on forensic scientist analyzing physical evidence including DNA, fingerprints and ballistics. The grant will assist them in maintaining current forensic alcohol testing operations while working to expand services offered and training on testing methods and interpretation of results, officials said.
Previously, the crime lab has utilized OTS grant funding to expand drug toxicology testing in DUI case, purchase new equipment, and increase both staffing and training for the crime lab’s toxicology section.
Since 2017, the average blood alcohol concentration of samples tested by the crime lab’s toxicology section has been above 0.17%, more than twice the legal limit, according to officials.
From January through September 2025, more than 75% of the blood samples tested for drugs had at least one drug detected. The most commonly detected drugs in DUI drivers were marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, Xanax and Fentanyl.
The Crime Lab’s Toxicology section also saw a dramatic increase in requests to test for inhalant substances used by DUI drivers including drugs commonly known as NOS/whippets/laughing gas and dust-off.
The Sheriff’s Crime Lab provides forensic science services to more than 30 law enforcement agencies in San Diego County, processing more than 7,000 traffic safety cases per year.
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