For the second time, Anthony M. Hasenauer must go to prison for a crime he committed in 1999, a Schuylkill County judge decided Wednesday.
Hasenauer, 37, of Cressona, who had been a fugitive for 13 years before returning to Pennsylvania in September 2012, pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving under the influence.
Judge Charles M. Miller accepted Hasenauer's plea and, pursuant to an agreement between prosecutors and the defendant, sentenced him to serve 30 days to 12 months in prison and pay costs and a $500 fine. Miller made the sentence effective at 9 a.m. July 1.
State police at Schuylkill Haven charged Hasenauer with DUI on Jan. 29, 1999, in North Manheim Township.
President Judge William E. Baldwin issued a bench warrant for Hasenauer on Aug. 24, 1999.
In his other case, Hasenauer served 90 days in prison, beginning Sept. 20, 2012, on a charge of driving under suspension-DUI related. Senior Judge Wilbur H. Rubright had found Hasenauer guilty in absentia July 16, 1999, of that crime and sentenced him on the same date. State police at Schuylkill Haven also charged Hasenauer with driving with the suspended license on the same date that he was DUI.
Hasenauer voluntarily returned last September to Pennsylvania from his home in Elizabeth City, N.C., where he had been living since 1999. Hasenauer said he wanted to stop being a hypocrite to his children.
He said Wednesday that he has stopped drinking entirely.
"I haven't had a drink in almost four years," he said.