A Carbon County woman was sentenced to a year in a state prison on a driving under the influence charge on Tuesday.

Annette Bowen, 56, of Lansford, was sentenced by President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II to serve one to five years in a state prison for DUI. She was also ordered to pay a fine of $1,500, license suspended for 18 months, ordered to get a mental health evaluation and supply a DNA sample. On a driving under suspension charge she was fined $1,000.

She was arrested on Feb. 3, 2020, along Route 209 by Nesquehoning police.

Her sentencing was done via video from the Montgomery County prison where she is being held on a total of 62 criminal counts including several felony charges of robbery - threat of serious injury and robbery; criminal conspiracy-robbery; false imprisonment, criminal trespass, terroristic threats, simple assault and various other counts. The majority of the 62 counts are felonies.

Other cases

Dakota Woodard, 24, of Lansford, was sentenced to a prison term on a charge of possession of a prohibitive offensive weapon and resisting arrest. He previously pleaded to the charges.

Nanovic sentenced him to serve 30 days to one day less 24 months on the weapons charge and two years probation on the resisting arrest count, with the terms running consecutively.

He was arrested on Feb. 13 by Nesquehoning police along East Catawissa Street. Police were in the area looking for a person involved in an altercation and Woodard fit a description given to police. While attempting to take him into custody he fought with the officers and had to be taken to the ground and handcuffed.

He was also ordered to get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, zero tolerance for drug or alcohol use and supply a DNA sample.

He was given credit for 18 days already served and will begin serving the remaining 12 days on Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. and serve the time on consecutive two-day weekends.

Michael Ryan Sparano, 30, of Bethlehem, was sentenced to serve 72 hours to six months in jail, pay a fine of $1,000 and license suspended for a year, on a DUI charge. He previously pleaded to the charge.

His sentencing was done via video from the Monroe County prison, where he is being held on another DUI charge.

He was arrested on May 27, 2019, by state police at Fern Ridge in Penn Forest Township.

Enrique Ortiz Jr., 51, of Lansford, was placed in the house arrest program for 60 days on a driving under suspension charge. He will spent the first 15 days on electronic monitoring. He was also ordered to get a drug and alcohol evaluation and pay a fine of $500. He previously pleaded to the charge in exchange for counts of DUI, two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a small amount of marijuana being dropped.

He was arrested on Jan. 6, 2019, by Lansford police.

Pleads guilty

Dennis Paul Boileau, 53, of Ocean City, New Jersey, pleaded to one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and a summary offense of public drunkenness.

He was arrested on Feb. 9, 2018, while walking along a road in Towamensing Township. He was under the influence of a controlled substance at the time. In exchange for the plea, the district attorney’s office dropped felony counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and flight to avoid apprehension.

On the drug count he was sentenced to time-served (five days) to one year in jail and ordered to get a drug and alcohol evaluation and zero tolerance for drug or alcohol use. On the summary charge he was fined $100.

His plea was done via video from the Monroe County prison where he is being held on a pending DUI charge.

Each defendant must also pay court costs of about $1,000 and a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation or parole.