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Back to PA Alcohol Regulations Former Bellefonte Cop Arrested After Dangerous DUI Crash 40-year-old Richard Scott Keener, a former state police trooper from Bellefonte who was on probation for raping a woman in Clinton County is now accused of crashing his car into a utility pole while driving drunk. The police found Keener standing outside his vehicle covered in blood around 9 p.m. on Sept. 6.
 * This is based on a true story. The punishment, however, was not released to the public.

Keener denied being the driver of the car, refused medical treatment, and told officers that his wife — who was laying across the front seat, unconscious, bloody and had a noticeably broken arm — was “just sleeping,” police said. She however, was not sleeping. Police say her brain was bruised and bleeding, she had a broken arm, cuts on her face and shoulder, and her pelvis, vertebrae and two ribs were fractured.

Keener smelled like alcohol and told police he had two beers, police said. Two beer cans were found at the scene and Keener, who refused any field sobriety tests, was arrested and later found to have a blood alcohol level of .234 percent.

Keener was put on probation due to raping a woman. He pleaded guilty to lesser offenses of the simple assault, indecent assault of unlawful restraint in exchange for no jail time, but nearly nine years of probation. What should his punishment be for this misdemeanor, which took place after he was already placed on probation?