Holtsville man gets maximum sentence in cop-dragging case

Michael Shear, a Holtsville steamfitter, was sentenced Friday to the maximum of 1⅓ to 4 years in prison for dragging a police officer after a traffic stop and driving while intoxicated. Michael Shear, 35, was charged with second-degree assault for dragging the officer who pulled him over, but a jury acquitted him of those and other charges after a trial in October before Suffolk County Court Judge Stephen Braslow in Riverhead. Credit: News 12 Long Island