Man sentenced to 3 years for Alamogordo-area car chase
Posted at: 12/04/2012 7:30 AM
By: The Associated Press
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - An Ohio man accused of leading authorities on a car chase in southern New Mexico while transporting nearly 200 pounds of marijuana has been sentenced to three years in prison.
The Alamogordo Daily News reports that 40-year-old James E. Upole received the sentence Monday for the car chase that began at a Border Patrol checkpoint west of Alamogordo on March 11 and ended in a crash in a parking lot.
Upole pleaded no contest to third-degree felony aggravated assault upon a police officer, felony distribution of marijuana over 100 pounds, fourth-degree aggravated fleeing a law-enforcement officer and another charge.
Upole told Twelfth Judicial District Judge Bill Brogan that he was sorry for what happened and that he made a foolish mistake.
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