Cops: Man drove drunk hours after guilty DWI plea
Cops: Man drove drunk hours after guilty DWI plea
NEW WINDSOR - A man with two previous driving while intoxicated convictions – including one earlier the same day – was charged with drunken driving Monday.
Town police said James Early, 61, of Newburgh, was stopped on Route 9W at 3 p.m. He had a blood alcohol level of .17 percent, police said.
The newest DWI charge was a felony because of two previous convictions on the same charge. Police said Early had pleaded guilty that morning before Orange County Court Judge Nicholas DeRosa to an earlier charge of felony driving while intoxicated, and also had a misdemeanor drunken driving conviction in July 2008.
Early was sent to the Orange County Jail on $3,000 bail, pending a Town Court appearance Friday.