Powellton man sentenced for third offense DUI

By Matthew Hill
The Register-Herald

FAYETTEVILLE Tue, May 13 2008

— “I don’t know what it’s going to take to get you off the road,” Fayette County Circuit Judge Paul Blake said Thursday before sentencing a Powellton man to jail for his third offense of driving on a revoked driver’s license due to driving under the influence.
David S. Coleman, 36, entered and exited the courtroom in the orange garb of Southern Regional Jail, where he will spend the next one to three years. Coleman was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine. Blake denied a motion for alternative sentencing made by Coleman’s lawyer, Claude Smith III.
A jury convicted Coleman of the charge on Jan. 2. Assistant prosecutor Vickie Hylton pointed out the conviction marked Coleman’s third such offense since December 2004.
“Nothing but incarceration will deter this defendant,” she asserted, adding fines from two prior offenses remain unpaid by Coleman.

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A Florida woman will spend one to four years in prison after pleading guilty to obtaining possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation.
Cheryl K. Sauer-Canterbury, 51, of Port Richey, Fla., proffered an illegitimate prescription at the Fayetteville Wal-Mart pharmacy last June 29, authorities said. She had acquired a prescription notepad from a doctor’s office in Nicholas County and used that to obtain hydrocodone.
A co-defendant and husband, Roy L. Canterbury, is presently incarcerated in another state and is also wanted by police and prosecutors in this case, a spokesperson for the Fayette prosecutor’s office said.
Blake ordered her sentence to run concurrently with a term she is already serving from Greenbrier County.
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