Repeat DUI offender sentenced to treatment probation

A Kalispell woman has been sentenced to 13 months in treatment with the Montana Department of Corrections followed by eight years of probation for drunken driving offenses.

Janice White, 61, was in the middle of a three-year deferred sentence for a criminal endangerment conviction — the result of a felony DUI arrest — when she crashed her vehicle on Christmas Day 2012.

She wrecked her vehicle after repeatedly crossing the lines in the road, eventually driving over an embankment.

White’s new sentence comes as a result of pleading guilty to her fourth offense of drunken driving for the crash as well as the revocation of her prior sentence.

She was sentenced by District Judge Robert Allison to the treatment and three years of her probation for her new conviction and a consecutive five years of probation for violating her prior sentence.

A court document says White previously was convicted of drunken driving in November 2004, May 2005 and September 2006.