A Jaffrey man who was behind the wheel of a vehicle that crashed into a River Street home after a high-speed chase with police a year ago is scheduled to plead guilty in court Friday morning.
Ryan J. Parent, 30, is expected to plead to three felonies in the Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene Friday, aggravated driving while intoxicated, driving after suspension and reckless conduct with a deadly weapon. According to the plea agreement filed at the court, Parent could serve up to one year in jail.
Parent led police on a high-speed chase on Feb. 21 from Rindge into Jaffrey – that ended with him crashing a Chevrolet Silverado truck into 72 River St., according to an arrest affidavit filed in the court by state police.
According to a plea agreement on file at the court Parent could have to pay the victim $6,049.88 in restitution, if the plea is made and accepted in court Friday morning. He is also expected to be given a suspended sentence of 5 years on that plea for the charge of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.
On the other two felony charges he is expected to plead guilty and be sentenced to two 12-month jail sentences to be served concurrently in the Cheshire County House of Corrections. According to the agreement he would also be on electronic monitoring for up to three years upon release and would have his driver’s license suspended for two years.
A state police trooper reported in the arrest affidavit that Parent was driving a Chevrolet Silverado in excess of 100 miles per hour – at one point up to 109 miles an hour. Parent was also illegally passing multiple vehicles, almost causing a head-on collision, was weaving and swerving on the road and eventually crashed into a house on Route 202/River Street in Jaffrey. Parent was injured in the crash, with a broken leg, and was hospitalized.
In court last year, Cheshire County Attorney Chris McLaughlin said Parent has a 2008 aggravated DWI conviction. “He was underage at the time,” he said.
More recently Parent had another DWI conviction in December, he said. Both previous DWIs were class A misdemeanors.