Six-Time Repeat DUI Offender Facing 2 Years in Prison

REDWOOD CITY, CA- A Discovery Bay man could be sentenced to two years in prison after pleading no contest Tuesday to his sixth drunk driving charge for a traffic stop in San Mateo County last Christmas Eve, prosecutors said this week.

Rodney Wantland, 49, was found driving on a closed access road to a lookout off Interstate Highway 280 shortly after 7 p.m.

When a California Highway Patrol officer approached him, Wantland showed signs of intoxication and had an open bottle of Crown Royal whiskey on the front passenger seat, San Mateo County prosecutors said.

Wantland did poorly on field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol level of .22 percent when he was tested three hours later.

After he was arrested, prosecutors realized he had five prior drunk driving convictions, including felony convictions in 2008 and 2009.

On Monday, he pleaded no contest to another felony drunk driving charge on the condition that he serve no more than two years in prison when he’s sentenced on Feb. 5, prosecutors said. He remains free for now on $100,000 bail.

– By Bay City News Service. Image via Shutterstock.