Maximum Sentence for Bail Jumper Charged with DWI

GREGG COUNTY — An East Texas man received the maximum sentence for DWI after he jumped bail. Delwin Gawone Fletcher, 31, of Easton, received a two-year state jail sentence Tuesday for driving while intoxicated with a child passenger in the vehicle, but a conviction for bail jumping will keep him incarcerated even longer. The offense occurred in May 2009. Fletcher was scheduled to enter a guilty plea on the charge in December, but authorities said he jumped bail and remained on the lam until his March 2 arrest by Gregg County sheriff’s deputies. He remained jailed on $51,000 bond since that time. Under a plea agreement, Fletcher received sentences of two years for drunk driving with a passenger younger than 15 years of age, and eight years for bail jumping, with two other cases pending as well.