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Montana man may be spared prison for
felony DUI |
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January 3, 2011 |
A Montana man who admitted drinking, driving
erratically, crashing his truck into a vehicle
bound for the Mother's Day Moyie Mud Bog,
injuring three young women and then fleeing the
scene of the accident has been given the chance
to avoid up to nine years as an inmate in the
Idaho State Prison.
In a plea agreement, Logan Brent Moore, 21,
Thompson Falls, pled guilty last week to
aggravated DUI, a felony, and had misdemeanor
charges of leaving the scene of an injury
accident, possession of a controlled substance
and possession of paraphernalia dismissed.
According to court documents, Idaho State Police
Corporal Allen Ashby responded to a call from
Boundary County Sheriff's Dispatchers of an
injury collision on Eileen Road at about 2:14
p.m. May 6 a little over a mile north of Highway
2.
ISP Trooper Chris Yount, who was less than a
mile from the scene when the report came in,
radioed that he saw a red Dodge Durango speeding
away from the scene, a vehicle Ashby noticed in
the parking lot at the Moyie Store.
While Yount went to the assistance at the
accident scene, where an empty white 1995 GMC
Sierra pickup lay on its side and a 1996 Honda
Accord sat smashed head on, three women injured
inside, Ashby stopped at the store to check out
the Durango. He found a young man sobbing in the
back seat, being comforted by a young woman, who
told Ashby he'd been fish-tailing south, gotten
into a crash and that he'd been drinking.
He told Ashby he ran away from the accident
because he was scared.
Ashby identified him as Moore, and, because he
matched the description of one of two people
witnesses to the collision reported running
away, placed him under arrest.
In the process, Moore refused to submit to field
sobriety tests, saying that he was too drunk to
comply; according to Ashby, even without the
"official" results or the admission, the
evidence was fairly clear.
Meanwhile, at the scene, Corporal Yount was
going through the GMC, where he found a
container of what he suspected was marijuana as
well as drug paraphernalia. While EMTs tended
the three young women in the Accord, he sized up
the crash site and logged the evidence.
EMTs, meanwhile, were treating three then
20-year-old victims who'd been driving north to
enjoy to Mud Bog; driver Jayme Hahn, Osburn,
Idaho, who'd suffered the worst injuries, a
compound fracture of her left arm, a partial
scalping and multiple lacerations and
contusions; and Kershanda Nicholson and Kaitlyn
Fausett, both of Wallace, had both suffered
injury, though less severe.
Moore was sentenced to a potential nine years in
prison, and given credit for the 226 days he's
already served in county jail, but his prison
sentence was commuted and judgement withheld;
meaning he'll have the opportunity to serve six
months at Cottonwood and, if he successfully
passes that strict regimen to the satisfaction
of his jailers and his judge, he can come back
to the court and request parole; a period of
time during which he'll be free, but always
subject to strict oversight to ensure he abides
the terms and conditions set.
If the judge has any reason to doubt, however,
the sentence can be imposed in full. |
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