Published: July 18, 2008 01:13 am

By BRAD KELLAR
Greenville Herald-Banner Staff

GREENVILLE — A Hunt County man has been sentenced to prison, after pleading guilty to his 15th charge for driving while intoxicated (DWI).

Ronnie Victor Beliew, 60, of Campbell, was sentenced to 20 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division — the maximum punishment — on a charge of felony DWI during a hearing Thursday in the 354th District Court.

Typically, a charge of driving while intoxicated is filed as a felony offense, rather than a misdemeanor, when the individual has had two or more prior DWI convictions. The third degree felony carries a maximum punishment upon conviction of from two to 10 years in prison.

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