A Nelsonville man pleaded guilty Monday to two separate indictments, resulting in an eight-year prison sentence.
“Vance Johnson was caught breaking into a storage building at the 33 Carryout in Nelsonville in April,” Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said in a news release from his office. “(In) July, Johnson was pulled over for a traffic violation and was cited for OVI and driving under a suspended license while having his minor son in the vehicle.”
He added that the Nelsonville Police Department officer released Johnson from custody, and two days later, Johnson was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence again.
Johnson, 33, originally received six years in prison for pleading guilty to an indictment charging two counts of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of endangering children.
However, Athens County Common Pleas Court Judge L. Alan Goldsberry sentenced Johnson to an additional two years after he pleaded guilty to one count of breaking and entering and one count of possessing criminal tools.
All of Johnson’s charges are felonies of the third and fifth degrees, aside from endangering children, which is a first-degree misdemeanor.
Johnson will be incarcerated in the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail on a bond set at $5,000, according to the jail’s documents.
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