Former Truro Police Chief Sentenced to Nine Months in Jail

CCB MEDIA PHOTO John Lundborn, former police chief of Truro, with his attorney during his sentencing at Barnstable District Court today.

CCB MEDIA PHOTO
John Lundborn, former police chief of Truro, with his attorney during his sentencing at Barnstable District Court today.

TRURO – Former Truro police chief John Lundborn will serve nine months in jail after being convicted of driving a car under the influence of alcohol and endangering a child.

Barnstable District Court Judge Christopher Welch sentenced Lundborn today during a hearing about whether the operating under the influence charge is a second offense.

The prosecutor argued it is actually a third offense because there was also an OUI incident in Florida.

The first incident took place in 2011 in Truro where Lundborn crashed a cruiser. He later resigned his position leading that town’s police force.

The second incident took place in July 2014 when Lundborn was driving with his three-year-old child and a passerby reported that he was drunk and behind the wheel with a child in the car. He was arrested in the parking lot at the McDonald’s on North Street in Hyannis.

But in between the two incidents on Cape Cod, Lundborn was arrested for OUI in Florida in January 2013.

Lundborn’s attorney, Peter J. Aspesi, argued that because the OUI statute is different in Florida, the judge should not consider the Florida case.

But Judge Welch sided with the prosecutor.

Besides the sentence of nine months in jail on the OUI charge, Welch sentenced Lundborn to a suspended sentence of two-and-a-half years in jail on the child endangerment charge.

The sentence includes five years of probation with random screenings for drugs and alcohol. He is also required to be evaluated for treatment for addiction and to attend five Alcohol Anonymous meetings per week.

Welch said Lundborn, 47, can serve the time at the Dukes County Correctional Facility on Martha’s Vineyard.

Lundborn spent the weekend there while awaiting today’s sentencing.

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