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Allen Circuit Judge Thomas Felts pleaded guilty Thursday in Marion Superior Court to a misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and received a one-year suspended sentence.
"You won’t see me on this side of the bench again," Felts said to Marion Superior Judge William J. Nelson during the guilty-plea hearing.
Felts, 54, has entered an alcohol rehabilitation program and must continue that as a condition of his plea. He also was placed on probation for one year and is allowed to report by telephone to Marion County probation officers.
By agreement, his driver’s license was suspended for 90 days, to begin Friday, and Nelson allowed Felts to drive himself back to Fort Wayne.
"Everybody is entitled to make a mistake," Nelson said during the hearing. "I commend you for being here today, doing the right thing like I knew you would."
Felts was arrested in July on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis during a traffic stop by the Indiana State Capitol Police. When attempting to stop for the officer, who pulled him over for a moving violation, Felts backed into the police cruiser.
For more on this story see Friday’s editions of The Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 7 a.m.
nkelly@jg.net
