BOZEMAN - A Montana woman whose drunken-driving spree ended with a sit-down Bozeman coffee bar turned into an improv drive-through must pay $127,300 to cover property damage but got a six-year deferred sentence that lets her avoid prison.

Muriel Lynn Day of Cut Bank said she takes "full responsibility" for the July 13 incident, in which she drove her husband's Ford pickup into the Rockford Coffee outlet on Main Street. 

The 35-year-old said in a written statement to District Judge Holly Brown, "Yes, I was intoxicated. I have no excuses."

Day's deferred sentence means she will be able to petition to have her record wiped clean if she stays out of trouble for six years.

She was also sentenced to six months in jail with all but 78 days suspended - time she has already served.

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Bond was set at $30,000 Monday in District Court for a Pryor man charged with felony DUI, his seventh drunken-driving offense. 

Earl Leo Rock, 51, appeared for arraignment before Judge G. Todd Baugh. Rock pleaded not guilty to the DUI charge, a second felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor counts of driving with a suspended license and having an open alcohol container in a vehicle. 

Baugh set the bond amount after Deputy County Attorney Ingrid Rosenquist said Rock has previous DUI convictions in 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997 and two in 2001. In the most recent case, Rock is alleged to have been driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.306 percent, nearly four times the state legal limit of 0.08 percent.

According to court records, Rock was arrested Dec. 16 when two motorists reported a drunken driver in Lockwood at about 6:30 p.m. A Montana Highway Patrol trooper  said the motorists had blocked the suspected drunken-driver from continuing to drive a pickup truck near the Lockwood School. The motorists said the driver of the pickup had nearly run them off the road.

The trooper said Rock was identified as the driver and appeared severely intoxicated. Several open containers of al-cohol were found in the pickup, and Rock's speech was so slurred the trooper at times could not understand him. Rock did tell the trooper he is an insulin-dependent diabetic and had not taken his insulin that day or eaten any food. YEAH, Right!!!