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Foley Pleads Guilty To Felony Fourth DWI

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) —A felony suspect booked in Fayetteville in June on his fourth DWI arrest pleaded guilty on Monday (Oct. 20) to the charge, records show. Ke...
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FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) —A felony suspect booked in Fayetteville in June on his fourth DWI arrest pleaded guilty on Monday (Oct. 20) to the charge, records show.

Keith Foley, 33, was sentenced to six years in a state prison, with five of those years suspended, records show. He will serve a year in an Arkansas Community Correction facility and will likely be paroled in about six months, according to the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Community Correction facilities are minimum-security prisons generally housing nonviolent criminals. Male convicts sentenced to one of those facilities in Arkansas are either sent to Texarkana, Little Rock or Osceola.

Foley entered the plea before Washington County Circuit Judge William Storey.

Foley also was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, a $250 DNA fee and a $20 booking fee, records show.

At his arraignment on July 9, Foley pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Judge Ray Reynolds to a felony fourth charge of driving while intoxicated, officials said.

Foley previously told the judge he is under psychiatric care in Hot Springs.

A Fayetteville officer stopped Foley on June 3 after seeing him make an improper lane change, according to a preliminary report from the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office.

The officer asked Foley to get out of his vehicle and then conducted standard sobriety tests on the suspect, according to the report.

The officer said he noticed enough clues to believe Foley was intoxicated and transported him to the Washington County Detention Center for additional tests, the report states.

A drug recognition expert who performed an evaluation on Foley at the jail determined he was too intoxicated to operate a vehicle due to CNS depressants, a class of drugs most associated with sedatives, according to the report.

Foley was booked into the detention center and later released on a $3,830 bond, records show.

Foley has three prior DWI convictions, one each in 2010, 2013 and 2014, according to the report. Under Arkansas law, the first three DWI convictions are misdemeanors.

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