LOCKPORT – Lester Lamar Jr. paid the price Thursday for washing out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment: five years in state prison and three years of post-release supervision.
That’s the punishment Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas hung on Lamar for his original guilty plea to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Lamar, 26, of C Street, Niagara Falls, sold crack cocaine in a Town of Niagara parking lot March 28, 2011, and then led police on a car chase during which he sideswiped a house and struck a utility pole. He entered diversion in December 2011, but was booted in October for continuing to use drugs and showing little interest in the treatment rules.
That’s the punishment Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas hung on Lamar for his original guilty plea to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Lamar, 26, of C Street, Niagara Falls, sold crack cocaine in a Town of Niagara parking lot March 28, 2011, and then led police on a car chase during which he sideswiped a house and struck a utility pole. He entered diversion in December 2011, but was booted in October for continuing to use drugs and showing little interest in the treatment rules.