SCHENECTADY -- A 21-year-old city man faces drunken-driving charges under Leandra's Law after a car carrying four teens overturned inside Central Park, according to city police spokesman, Sgt. Luciano Savoia.
He said the driver, along with a 16-year-old male, ran from the wreck after the 2005 Subaru Legacy overturned shortly before 8:35 p.m. Wednesday on Iroquois Way near the basketball courts at the park.
When police arrived, they found another 16-year-old male and two females, ages 17 and 15, at the accident site, Savoia said.
The older girl had a large gash on her forehead, and she and others were taken to Ellis Hospital with for treatment of non-life -threatening injuries. Police used motor vehicle records to trace the car back to an apartment at Willow Avenue in the Central State Street neighborhood, where a woman told them that her brother, Mahlon Denegar, had been behind the wheel .
Missing man sentenced to prison Mahlon Denegar had failed to appear for sentencing three times By Paul Nelson Updated 08:15 p.m., Friday, June 22, 2012
SCHENECTADY — After five adjournments, the judge had enough and sentenced a man in absentia to a maximum of 7 years in prison for injuring a teen passenger after crashing his car while driving drunk in Central Park in 2010.
Mahlon Denegar, 22, will receive the sentence when he is captured on an arrest warrant. He will be arraigned on the warrant and sent to state prison to begin serving the 3½-to-7-year term imposed Friday by Visiting Schenectady County Judge Richard Giardino, according to Assistant District Attorney Brian Gray.
In January, Denegar pleaded guilty to first-degree vehicular assault and aggravated driving while intoxicated in exchange for a sentence of 2 to 4 years behind bars. He was later released on $10,000 bond and since then has failed to appear three separate times for sentencing, the prosecutor said.
The judge Friday rejected a request by Denegar's defense attorney, Paul Callahan, for another adjournment and sentenced his client as a second-time felony offender.
The lawyer told Giardino that he had spoken with his client around midnight Friday to remind him of the court date.
Authorities say the 2005 Subaru Legacy Denegar was driving, while high on drugs and intoxicated, overturned with four teenage passengers on Iroquois Way near the basketball courts at Central Park on Nov. 17, 2010....................>>>>.............................>>>>.........................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Missing-man-sentenced-to-prison-3656128.php#ixzz1yc5PKXTY
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