A drunk driver convicted by a jury in Buchanan County will serve ten years in prison.

On January 14, a jury panel returned a guilty verdict against Michael Gann, 42, who was charged as a chronic offender with one count of Driving while Intoxicated. That’s a class B felony.

On Monday, Circuit Judge Patrick Robb ordered the St Joseph man to serve a ten-year prison sentence.

 

This is not Mr Gann’s first brush with prison over drunk driving. Most recently he pleaded guilty in August, 2010 and was sentenced to four years in the Department of Corrections.

In July of 2004 he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DWI charge, and was ordered to serve six months in the county jail. In March of 1993, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of DWI. He received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation.