12th Drinking-Driving Conviction Leads to Prison
Associated Press
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. —
A 62-year-old man with 12 drinking-and-driving convictions has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison under the state’s persistent felony offender law.
A judge Friday ordered Louis Bowers to serve two concurrent terms of 15 years to life for driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle.
Bowers, of Warrensburg, N.Y., was arrested after driving his pickup truck into a swamp in Minerva in August, 1990.
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