Drunk Driver Gets Half Century Prison Sentence

Drunk driver Allen William Owen won't be eligible for parole until he's an octogenarian, thanks to a grand jury in Williamson County that recently convicted him of his third DWI.

Owen, who's now serving his 50-year prison sentence, is no stranger to the justice system: he was jailed twice in the past for committing felony crimes ranging from burglary to credit card abuse. His second DWI conviction happened last April.

Less than six months later, Owen managed to crash his truck into a parked car in a residential neighborhood in Round Rock. When confronted by the vehicle's owner and another neighbor, Owen, clearly drunk, peed himself.

Lab tests later indicated that he had a blood alcohol concentration of .28 — three and a half times the legal limit.

KXAN reports that during the trial, Owen tried to weasel his way out of the conviction by claiming there'd been "insufficient evidence that he had been driving the car." The jury didn't buy it.