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Three-year sentence for fourth DUI

Posted December 01, 2009 10:00 pm

Driving sans headlights got Sergio Centeno-Cruz pulled over on a traffic violation. That, plus driving under the influence of alcohol earned him three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Centeno-Cruz, of the 800 block of Cambridge Place in Wheeling, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of aggravated DUI stemming from an incident that occurred in the early morning of June 17.

A Wheeling police officer stopped the 43-year-old man after the officer encountered Centeno-Cruz driving without his headlights in the 200 block of W. Dundee Road. Centeno-Cruz failed field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol content of .132, said Assistant State's Attorney Shilpa Patel during a sentencing hearing at Rolling Meadows' Third Municipal District.

Centeno-Cruz, also known as Sergio Santana and Sergio Vasquez, was convicted under those aliases of misdemeanor DUIs in 2002 and 2003. He was also convicted of a felony DUI in 2005, for which he received 24 months probation.

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