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Cop gets 6 months for drunk driving



A drunken off-duty cop who neglected to brake fast at Tiffany's was sentenced today to six months in jail.

Raphel Ospina, 28, will do the time for ramming his Chrysler 300 sedan into a tree outside Tiffany's flagship Fifth Avenue store, and then careening into the pricy bauble joint itself, back in February, 2010.

Ospina suffered a broken hip and five broken ribs; his two passengers also suffered lasting, debilitating injuries, and the sidewalk outside the granite storefront was left littered with blood and glass. His blood alcohol level was .13, well above the legal limit of .08.

"My life is over…my career is over," he told cops at the hospital.

In March, Ospina went to trial in a failed attempt to keep his badge, claiming that it was one of his two passengers who had been at the wheel. Both passengers were hauled to the witness stand by prosecutors, and admitted that they hadn't been in the driver's seat.

Upon his release, Ospina must enroll in a drunk driving program, install a breath-test device in his vehicle, and do five years probation.