SOLDIER WHO DROVE CAR INTO PEOPLE GETS PRISON; TRIAL ENDS FORT DRUM PRIVATE'S ARMY TIES. CRASH WAS NEAR WATERTOWN BAR.(Local)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: July 24, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Hart Seely Staff writer

After a two-day court-martial trial, a soldier from Fort Drum has been kicked out of the Army and sentenced to 18 months in prison for driving his car into a crowd of people last March in Watertown.

Pvt. Kristopher B. Hendricks, 23, of Detroit, will receive a bad conduct discharge and forfeit all remaining pay and benefits.

Shortly before 2 a.m. March 15, Hendricks drove his 1995 Cadillac into an alley full of people as they were leaving the Strand Music Theater bar. His car swerved left and right, knocking people asunder in a cramped ...

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