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A 62-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison after he received his twelfth DWI arrest and his tenth conviction.
Ivy Ray Eberhardt told officers he had drank half a pint of whiskey when he was pulled over in April 2014 after an off-duty officer reported him for reckless and aggressive driving in Weatherford.
Police said Eberhardt was swerving on the Fort Worth highway before he began driving in the wrong lane after turning onto a side street.
After he was pulled over, Eberhardt continued to give an officer his credit cards instead of his driver's license and reeked of alcohol and urine when he got out of his vehicle, authorities said.
Dashcam video of the arrest shows an officer finding four bottles of whiskey in Eberhardt's car.
Three were empty, and the fourth had a fifth of whiskey remaining, according to KHOU.
Eberhardt had a blood alcohol level of 0.303, nearly four times above the legal limit.
He was arrested on the spot after failing his field sobriety test. Then, while he was out on bond, Eberhardt cut off his ankle monitor and drove to Colorado.
In less than a month he had been arrested for drunk driving again, spending 300 days in a Colorado jail before he was sent back to Texas to receive his sentence for his previous offense.
Eberhardt was sentenced on Wednesday and will have to serve 15 years in prison before he is eliginble for parole.
'Part of my job is to protect the citizens of Parker County,' District Judge Craig Towson said during the sentencing.
'And the only way I can think of to do that from somebody that has 12 DWI arrests and 10 DWI convictions is to put you in a place that you can't drive for as along as I possibly can.'
Ivy Ray Eberhardt, 62, was sentenced to life in prison after he received his tenth DWI conviction
Eberhardt was convicted of four misdemeanor DWI offenses in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, according to Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He was then sent to prison for felony offenses in 1998, 2001 and 2004, before being convicted of DWI offenses in Colorado in 2010 and 2015.
Dashcam video of the April 2014 arrest shows an officer finding four bottles of whiskey in Eberhardt's car. Three were empty, and the fourth had about a fifth of whiskey remaining
After he was pulled over, Eberhardt continued to give an officer his credit cards instead of his driver's license and reeked of alcohol and urine when he got out of his car, authorities said
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sentenced-life-prison-TWELFTH-DWI-arrest.html
Ivy Ray Eberhardt told officers he had drank half a pint of whiskey when he was pulled over in April 2014 after an off-duty officer reported him for reckless and aggressive driving in Weatherford.
Police said Eberhardt was swerving on the Fort Worth highway before he began driving in the wrong lane after turning onto a side street.
After he was pulled over, Eberhardt continued to give an officer his credit cards instead of his driver's license and reeked of alcohol and urine when he got out of his vehicle, authorities said.
Dashcam video of the arrest shows an officer finding four bottles of whiskey in Eberhardt's car.
Three were empty, and the fourth had a fifth of whiskey remaining, according to KHOU.
Eberhardt had a blood alcohol level of 0.303, nearly four times above the legal limit.
He was arrested on the spot after failing his field sobriety test. Then, while he was out on bond, Eberhardt cut off his ankle monitor and drove to Colorado.
In less than a month he had been arrested for drunk driving again, spending 300 days in a Colorado jail before he was sent back to Texas to receive his sentence for his previous offense.
Eberhardt was sentenced on Wednesday and will have to serve 15 years in prison before he is eliginble for parole.
'Part of my job is to protect the citizens of Parker County,' District Judge Craig Towson said during the sentencing.
'And the only way I can think of to do that from somebody that has 12 DWI arrests and 10 DWI convictions is to put you in a place that you can't drive for as along as I possibly can.'
Ivy Ray Eberhardt, 62, was sentenced to life in prison after he received his tenth DWI conviction
Eberhardt was convicted of four misdemeanor DWI offenses in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, according to Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He was then sent to prison for felony offenses in 1998, 2001 and 2004, before being convicted of DWI offenses in Colorado in 2010 and 2015.
Dashcam video of the April 2014 arrest shows an officer finding four bottles of whiskey in Eberhardt's car. Three were empty, and the fourth had about a fifth of whiskey remaining
After he was pulled over, Eberhardt continued to give an officer his credit cards instead of his driver's license and reeked of alcohol and urine when he got out of his car, authorities said
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sentenced-life-prison-TWELFTH-DWI-arrest.html