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Former Marion chief pleads in DWI case
Published December 16, 2009
SEGUIN — Former Marion police chief Tony Plaid pleaded guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge Monday, stopping what would have been a second drunken driving trial in County Court-at-Law 2.
Under terms of a plea agreement between Assistant County Attorney Lauren Lefton and defense attorney Jimmy Parks of San Antonio, Judge Frank Follis sentenced Plaid, 54, to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. All of the jail time and all but $200 of the fine were probated for 18 months, meaning if Plaid adheres to the terms of his probation he won’t go to jail. He will also have to pay $448 in court costs and $810 in other fees.
Monday’s DWI conviction for driving drunk in Cibolo on June 27, 2008 was the second for Plaid, a retired U.S. Army non-commissioned officer who was Marion’s top police officer until shortly after he rolled his pickup and was seriously injured on March 19, 2007, in a single-vehicle rollover accident on FM 725 near McQueeney.
On April 2, 2009, Plaid was convicted for driving drunk in that incident. He spent 30 days in jail as a condition of his probation.
The Marion City Council placed Plaid on leave and then fired him when he refused to resign in the wake of his first drunken driving allegation. After a statewide search, Plaid’s former sergeant, Reed Crane, was appointed police chief, a job he has held ever since.
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