Dan Carden

A LaPorte County state lawmaker who pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated no longer will play a key role in crafting Indiana's criminal statutes.

State Sen. Mike Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for driving in Michigan City on Jan. 24 with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.283% or nearly four times the legal limit of 0.08%, records show.

Following Bohacek's conviction, Senate President Rod Bray, R-Martinsville, removed the three-term senator from his seat on the Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law, which evaluates all proposals for new or revised criminal statutes on behalf of the entire Senate.

"Senator Bohacek has expressed his remorse and regret to Senator Bray regarding that situation,

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