Man violates suspension from DUI death
For the second time in the past decade, Spencer W. Andrews could be sent to prison for getting behind the wheel while intoxicated.
This time, no one died as a result of his decision to drink and drive.
Andrews, 35, was released from prison in March 2013 after serving a fouryear sentence for killing a bicyclist in a drunkendriving crash on the Northwest Side.
On Tuesday, Andrews pleaded guilty to a felony charge of driving while under a lifetime suspension. The charge was among those filed after a state trooper stopped him about 1:30 a.m. July 9 and determined that he was driving while intoxicated on Dublin Road between Dublin and Hilliard.
Andrews could be sent to prison for as long as three years when sentenced Feb. 5 by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Holbrook.
Andrews, of Runaway Bay Drive on the West Side, pleaded guilty in October in Franklin County Municipal Court to misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and obstructing official business related to the July arrest. Municipal Court Judge James P. O’Grady sentenced him to nearly a year in the county jail.
Holbrook suggested that by setting a February sentencing date for the felony charge, he was giving defense attorney Will Ireland a chance to argue that Andrews will have been “punished enough” at that point by his time in jail.
In February 2009, Andrews pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of 19-year-old Michael T. Sonney. Andrews was driving drunk in a pickup truck that struck Sonney’s bicycle on Snouffer Road between 3 and 4 a.m. on July 25, 2007. He fled the scene of the crash and was arrested after investigators followed a mile-long trail of radiator fluid to find his truck.
He was sentenced to four years in prison by then Common Pleas Judge Richard Sheward, who also imposed a lifetime license suspension.