Guilty plea entered to felony DWI charge
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LOCKPORT—A Wheatfield man pleaded guilty to a felony count of driving while intoxicated Thursday before Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III. Robert J. Hoover, 24, of Niagara Falls Boulevard, is to be sentenced Jan. 7.
He was pulled over on Captain’s Way in Wheatfield on Jan. 26, when his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.16 percent. Prosecutors recommended no more than six months in jail for Hoover, but Murphy made no promises. He could impose a sentence of up to four years.
In another DWI case, Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza gave Diana M. Flinn, 33, of Memorial Parkway, Niagara Falls, until Jan. 8 to show her why she shouldn’t be sent to prison for her guilty pleas to felony DWI and violating probation on an assault conviction.
Flinn, a single mother of three, said in court she has spent most of her life “creating nothing but a rap sheet and children without fathers.” She’s undergoing alcoholism treatment in the wake of two DWI arrests in Lewiston in the past year.
Published: October 30, 2009, 12:30 am