A Ford City man was sentenced earlier this week to serve time in jail for an incident stemming back from 2020.
Court documents say 43-year-old Keith W. Habel was sentenced to serve 21 months to seven years in a state correctional facility for a third-degree felony charge of DUI, along with serving nine months to two years for resisting arrest, six months to a year for defiant trespass; and six months to a year for a charge of driving on a suspended license.
Habel was arrested earlier this year following a traffic stop in White Township. Police say he was pulled over after a state trooper saw his pickup truck in the area of Airport and Geesey Road towing a utility trailer with debris falling off it onto the road. As a trooper talked with a passenger in the car, Habel bolted from the truck and fled on foot. Police caught up to him later after he was found hiding in a nearby barn. He was taken to IRMC for a blood draw soon after and was lodged in Indiana County Jail.
Also sentenced was 30-year-old Byron Bishop of Nanty Glo, who was tried for charges of theft by unlawful taking in two cases. The first was on September 22, 2021, while the other was on October 31, 2021.
Bishop was sentenced by Judge Gina Force to serve eight months to 23 months for both cases while serving one year of probation for the one case. He was also granted parole.
