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Driver gets 10-year probation, 180 jail days for intoxication assault that injured teen

Thomas Adam Kent, of Nederland, was ordered by Judge Stevens to serve 180 days in custody by way of weekend jail, which will start on Friday December 9, 2022.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A 39-year-old Nederland man will spend weekends in jail for almost two years and the next ten years on probation after pleading guilty to an intoxication assault that injured a teenager. 

Thomas Adam Kent, of Nederland, was ordered by Judge Stevens to serve 180 days in custody by way of weekend jail, which will start on Friday December 9, 2022.

He will receive only two days’ time served for each weekend, according to the latest update of jail standards commissions.

Judge Stevens also ordered Kent to pay a $500 fine and restitution in the amount of $9,550.

Kent is required to pay $4,500 of the restitution for the victim, immediately.

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