{"id":7805,"date":"2013-05-14T05:25:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-jailed-180-days-for-drink-driving-in-usa\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:25:17","slug":"rwandan-jailed-180-days-for-drink-driving-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-jailed-180-days-for-drink-driving-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Jailed 180 Days For Drink Driving in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A Rwandan National Agape Mpamira has been sentenced to 180 days to jail after he was found guilty of Drink driving in the United States.}}<\/p>\n<p>Mpamira is a former southwest Michigan Mr. Blossomtime. He was handed the sentence Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mpamira was arrested last November for drunk driving and resisting police and last month pleaded guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police said by the time they were able to check Mpamira\u2019s blood alcohol count, it registered .17, more than twice Michigan\u2019s legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old was named the 2012 Mr. Blossomtime before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>During his sentencing hearing, Mpamira apologized to police, his family and the community for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two dozen people were in court supporting him.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Dennis Wiley handed down the sentence and told Mpamira when you behave like Mpamira did, you put the lives of officers and others in jeopardy. Wiley called Mpamira a bright person with hopefully a bright future.<\/p>\n<p>Mpamira has already served 125 days of his 180-day sentence, but also faces another problem.<\/p>\n<p>He could be deported back to his native Rwanda. He came to the U.S. when he was a young boy and is not an American citizen. An immigration hearing is pending.<\/p>\n<p>Mpamira was also ordered to pay nearly $2,800 for both counts against him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2666 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/huio-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{WSBT}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A Rwandan National Agape Mpamira has been sentenced to 180 days to jail after he was found guilty of Drink driving in the United States.}} Mpamira is a former southwest Michigan Mr. Blossomtime. He was handed the sentence Monday. Mpamira was arrested last November for drunk driving and resisting police and last month pleaded guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}