SEAL BEACH, Calif. (KTLA) -- Beach when he lost control A Long Beach Fire captain was and swerved into the bike sentenced today for severely lane and dirt shoulder, injuring a cyclist in a mid- according to a news release day hit and-run crash while from the Orange County driving with a blood alcohol District Attorney's Office. level three times the legal At that time, prosecutors say limit. he slammed into bicyclist John David Hines, 39, pleaded Jeffrey Gordon, and drove guilty in September to one away. felony count each of driving Two witness followed Hines to under the influence of his home and reported the alcohol causing bodily injury, incident to police. driving with a blood alcohol . Gordon, 47, suffered head 08 percent or more causing trauma, severe cuts and injury, hit and run with bruising, internal injuries injury, and sentencing and spinal injuries, enhancements and allegations prosecutors said. for causing great bodily Prior to his sentencing, injury and having a blood Hines served 86 days in state alcohol level over .20 prison for a diagnostic percent. evaluation. Hines, of Huntington Beach, He was sentenced today to is accused of getting drunk four years and four months in at the Schooner or Later bar state prison stayed pending in Long Beach early on April successful completion of five 1 and then getting behind the years of formal probation and wheel of his Chevrolet pickup, one year in jail. according to prosecutors. He was also ordered to pay He was driving erratically $102,000 in restitution to about 1:20 p.m. on the victim. Westminster Avenue in Seal
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