Man to pay more than $195K in restitution after crashing into Port Matilda borough building
A Centre County man who crashed his pickup truck into the Port Matilda Borough building while driving drunk was sentenced Tuesday to probation and ordered to pay restitution for the significant damage.
Will Bracken, 34, was sentenced by Centre County Judge Brian Marshall to probation with restrictions for six months, including 45 days of house arrest. He was also ordered to pay $195,225 in restitution.
Bracken had a blood alcohol content of 0.12% when he crashed into the building shortly after a Borough meeting had ended in March. The legal limit in Pennsylvania is 0.08%.
No one was injured in the crash, but the collision caused significant damage to the building’s foundation, one side of which collapsed, state police wrote in an affidavit.
Following the crash, borough public meetings were held at the Port Matilda firehouse, and the borough ran operations out of the secretary’s living room following the crash.
“There’s absolutely no training for this,” borough Mayor Ida Lively told the Centre Daily Times in April.
Bracken pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor DUI charge.
Neither Bracken’s attorney, Thomas Dickey, or Crystal Hundt, the Assistant District Attorney, could be immediately reached for comment.
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