Medina man gets year in jail for DWI, AUO

ALBION – Orleans County Court Judge Sanford Church sentenced a Medina man to 364 days in the county jail this morning for felony driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Lawrence Miller, 31, was charged after a rollover accident on June 25, 2023 on Maple Ridge Road.

The judge also revoked Miller’s license for a year and said he will need to use an interlock-ignition device for a year when he starts driving again.

In other cases:

• An Albion man was sentenced to 10 years probation for a criminal sexual act and sexual abuse, as well as endangering the welfare of a child. He allegedly had sexual contact with an underage girl.

The man, now 22, was a juvenile when he committed the crime. The judge gave him youthful offender status. His name shouldn’t be published.

He is receiving treatment and has no other criminal history, the judge said.

• Andre Coley, 33, of Albion was arraigned for charges of second-degree strangulation, third-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal mischief.

The judge kept bail at the $1,000 set in town court and issued an order of protection for the victim in the case.

• Bradlee Pescara, 32, of Lyndonville pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in the second degree for having contact with a woman who had an order of protection against him. He will be sentenced on Nov. 1.

• Arthur Dukes of Medina was sentenced to weekends in jail for a month and a year of probation for attempted assault in the third-degree.