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Contempt of DMV

Charles Stefanilo Jr was caught driving without a license, so officials asked Judge Timothy Feeley to revoke the Peabody, Mass., man’s probation. “That means I would be doing eight years in jail,” whined Stefanilo, 55. “It’s crazy.” Stefanilo’s record of drunk-driving arrests goes back to 1977, and the last time he was a licensed driver was no later than 1995. But in 1999, he was convicted of drunk driving again. He was on probation from that conviction when he borrowed a friend’s rental car without permission and, driving drunk, crashed it into a highway on-ramp. That made his 16th Massachusetts drunk-driving conviction (plus at least one from outside the state), which won him five years in prison and 25 on probation. In 2005, his license was permanently revoked, but when he left prison, he bought a canteen truck. When his driver was otherwise busy, Stefanilo got back behind the wheel — sober, he claims. He was jailed for 60 days, but in a hearing after he completed that term, Judge Feeley chose to let him remain on probation. (AC/Salem News) ...That’ll teach him to disregard the law.
Original Publication Date: 18 December 2011
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