10/23/08 06:56 AM
Felony DWI brings a year in local jail
LOCKPORT — Admitting she was trying to decide on the bench whether to send a repeat drunken driver to the county jail or state prison, Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza chose the former Tuesday.
Dale S. Keem, 41, of Parkview Drive, North Tonawanda, thus received one year of local jail time for felony driving while intoxicated. He was pulled over Sept. 29, 2007, in North Tonawanda.
Sperrazza said it was Keem’s sixth DWI conviction, his fourth in the last five years. She could have sent him to state prison for 1x to four years. Besides imposing the county jail time, she fined Keem $5,000.
