6-year term for 4th DUI for Carpentersville mom

A 33-year-old Carpentersville woman was sentenced to 6 years in prison Friday after her fourth DUI conviction and for trying to run over her boyfriend in the parking lot of the village’s water park.

Chrystal L. Floyd, of the 100 block of Silverstone Drive, was convicted of aggravated DUI and resisting arrest after a jury trial last month.

Floyd was arrested the night of June 16, 2011, after police were called to the Dolphin Cove Family Aquatics Center, 300 N. Kennedy Drive.

Kane County Judge Marmarie Kostelny said Floyd’s conduct that night — trying to run down her boyfriend with her Chevy TrailBlazer — “threatened serious harm.”

But Kostelny said she took to heart a pledge from Floyd, a mother of two, to turn her life around and issued the minimum sentence.

“(Floyd) certainly has experienced a lot in her life that has not gone as planned,” Kostelny said. “That is not to excuse what happened. She chose to get behind the wheel of that car. It is clear to me that Ms. Floyd has made poor choices. She has acted on her impulses.”

Floyd was eligible for up to 30 years in prison because of previous felony convictions for burglary and residential burglary. She must serve at least half the sentence and also gets credit for 319 days spent in jail while her case was pending.

Floyd also must pay a $1,680 fine, and Kostelny recommended drug and alcohol treatment during prison.

Assistant State’s Attorney Andrew Whitfield argued for a 14-year term, pointing to Floyd’s criminal record and the fact she was actually in court earlier in the day on June 16, 2011 for a hearing that she violated her probation on her third DUI arrest.