A Kalispell man has been sentenced to a treatment program and eight years of probation after driving drunk, which also violated his prior sentence for making a bomb threat at an Evergreen bar.

Scott Walsh, 53, was sentenced March 27 in Flathead District Court. He had pleaded guilty to his fourth offense of driving under the influence.

Walsh was stopped by a Montana Highway Patrol trooper on Nov. 24 for driving 72 mph in a 65 mph zone. He admitted he had been drinking and subsequently failed field-sobriety and breath-alcohol tests.

He previously was given a five-year, suspended sentence in 2012 for making a bomb threat at the Rainbow Bar on Sept. 9, 2011, just two days before the 10-year anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers at the World Trade Center.

The bar was evacuated until it was determined that there was no bomb. Walsh was arrested after he returned to the bar later that evening.

District Judge Heidi Ulbricht sentenced Walsh to 13 months with the Montana Department of Corrections, recommending he be placed in the Warm Springs Addiction, Treatment and Change program prior to serving an additional three years suspended for the drunk driving conviction.

Ulbricht also reinstated Walsh’s five-year suspended sentence for the felony intimidation conviction, to run consecutively to his drunk driving sentence, and ordered him to pay a $400 public defender fee in the new case.

Reporter Jesse Davis may be reached at 758-4441 or by email at jdavis@dailyinterlake.com.