A Luzerne County man was sentenced to a state prison term on Tuesday in Carbon County court after pleading guilty to driving under the influence. He was one of four defendants to enter a plea to drunken driving.

Multiple DUIsRichard Paul Geiersbach, 55, of White Haven, was arrested on Nov. 6, 2013, along Route 534 at Hickory Run State Park by state rangers. Given a test, the result was 0.21 BAC. He also pleaded to driving under suspension-DUI related.Judge Joseph J. Matika rejected a request to run Geiersbach's sentence concurrent with a state term imposed in Monroe County on another DUI.Matika said he would run some of the term concurrent with Monroe, but said Geiersbach's driving record, in which he had eight overall drunken driving convictions, can't be ignored by the court.Matika said, "In my years in the district attorney's office and now on the bench, I never had a defendant with so many DUIs."Geiersbach is currently serving a 14- to 28-month state term for DUI imposed in Monroe.Matika, on the DUI charge, sentenced him to serve 16 to 60 months in a state prison concurrent. Matika said that considering the time Geiersbach has already served on the Monroe sentence, with the new term added, the defendant will have an additional seven months to serve in state prison.Matika also ordered Geiersbach to pay a fine of $1,500, have his license suspended for 18 months, get a drug and alcohol evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, zero tolerance for D&A use, and when released render 100 hours of community service.On the suspension count he was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail, a fine of $1,000 and another year suspension. The jail term is consecutive to the other terms.Other pleasOther defendants pleading guilty to DUI included:Jeffrey John Dolinsky, 50, of Weatherly. He was arrested on Nov. 3, 2013, along North Lehigh Gorge Drive in Lehigh Township by state police at Hazleton. Given a test, the result was 0.32 BAC. Dolinsky previously pleaded guilty to the charge and appeared Tuesday for sentencing.Matika sentenced him to serve 28 days in jail, followed by 23 months and two days in the county's Intermediate Punishment Program, with the first 60 days on electronic monitoring. That sentence will be followed by three additional years of probation.He must also pay a fine of $1,500, have his license suspended for 18 months, zero tolerance on D&A use, and render 100 hours of community service.He was given credit for 28 days spent in an inpatient rehabilitation program and immediately paroled.He pleaded to a summary offense of driving under suspension and was fined $200.Alan George Kokinda, 41, of Summit Hill, was arrested on Dec. 21, 2013, along Route 209 by Nesquehoning police. Given a test, the result was 0.17 BAC.He was placed on probation for six months and ordered to pay a fine of $300, and render 25 hours of community service. It was noted he spent 30 days in an inpatient rehab program.Melissa Lynn Atkinson, 25, of Albrightsville, was arrested on Nov. 17, 2013, along Catawissa Street by Nesquehoning police. Given a test, the result was 0.13 BAC.Sentencing was deferred so she could apply for placement in the IPP.Each defendant sentenced must also pay court costs, which average about $1,500, and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation or parole.