CATTARAUGUS COUNTY COURT
Driver avoids jail in wife’s crash death
A Pennsylvania man whose wife was killed in a November 2007 crash in which he was allegedly driving drunk avoided jail time when he was sentenced Monday in Cattaraugus County Court in connection with his guilty plea to vehicular manslaughter.
Lanny C. Holly, 57, of Bradford, Pa., was sentenced to five years’ probation, according to Cattaraugus County District Attorney Edward M. Sharkey.
Holly was indicted last September on a slew of criminal charges relating to the Nov. 9, 2007, crash on Route 219 in Carrollton. In February, he pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular manslaughter in his wife’s death.
According to reports, Holly’s vehicle went off the road, dragging a guardrail, before it struck a tree and burst into flames. Holly climbed to safety, but his wife, Carol D. Holly, 53, died in the crash.
The couple was apparently returning home from the Seneca Allegany Casino in Salamanca when the crash occurred. Holly was allegedly driving with a 0.11 percent blood alcohol level.
In other cases adjudicated Monday:
• Robert E. Beckman, 23, of Salamanca, was sentenced to six months in the county jail along with 10 years of probation and fines for his conviction of attempted sexual abuse, a felony, in connection with a March 2008 incident with a minor under age 11 in Salamanca.
•William J. Neaman, 32, of Delevan, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Neaman was indicted for allegedly attempting to subject a minor under 11 to sexual contact between January and April 2008 in Yorkshire. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 27.
• Joshua R. Pettygrove, 25, of Perrysburg, was sentenced to four weekends in the county jail along with five years of probation for attempting to burglarize Gowanda Methodist Church last June.
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