A man convicted of drunken driving with more than 100 chickens in his sport utility vehicle has been sentenced to 180 days in jail.

Luis M. Motola-Palacio, 36, 809 E. Eighth St., was sentenced in Hall County District Court to 180 days in jail for second-offense driving under the influence and cruelty to livestock. He was also ordered not to drive for 15 years and was fined $100.

His sentencing had been set for Aug. 6 but was moved up.

The charges were filed after Motola-Palacio was stopped on Jan. 31 in Grand Island for driving without headlights. The officer found more than 100 chickens in the back of the 2004 Nissan SUV. The majority of the chickens were in a makeshift cage, but the officer noticed a couple of the birds sitting on the backseat.

Nearly half of the birds were dead. The remaining chickens were taken to the Central Nebraska Humane Society and were eventually sent to two farms.

In May, Motola-Palacio was sentenced to three to five years in prison for second-degree assault for the Aug. 20, 2013, shooting of Michel Garcia-Rivera. He was arrested in that case after officers responded to his previous home on North Locust Street and found Garcia-Rivera bleeding from the leg.

According to police, a group of men had been slaughtering hogs when an argument broke out. Motola-Palacio retrieved a loaded shotgun from the house and shot the victim in the thigh, according to prosecutors.

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