A Juneau man was sentenced to serve a combined seven months in prison Thursday for stealing a car, driving it while drunk then crashing it in a ditch last summer.

Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez also sentenced Shelton H. Gleaton, 29, to four years of probation after his release and to pay about $18,000 in restitution for the damaged stolen vehicle, per the state’s request.

“The sentence that’s requested by the state is not a light sentence,” Menendez told Gleaton. “It’s a serious sentence and the state’s offered that because it’s a serious offense.”

After a reported 31 arsons in 13 months, the Juneau Crime Line is upping the ante in hopes of catch arsonists who have evaded police.

The nonprofit crime solving organization, which is Juneau’s equivalent to Crime Stoppers, announced a new $1,500 arson reward program Wednesday to incentivize those with information about unlawful blazes to come forward.

“We’re trying to get some information to help the police department to get these arsons to stop,” longtime Crime Line board member Robin Paul said in a phone interview. “That’s our main goal.”

The man accused of assaulting a cab driver in the valley two months ago has pleaded guilty to an assault charge in a separate and unrelated city criminal case.

Joshua Raymond Jones, 19, who waived his right to an attorney during his arraignment last week, was sentenced in Juneau District Court on Friday for misdemeanor assault for punching a friend in the face while playing the video game Call of Duty.

A small plane crashed near Ketchikan Tuesday morning, leaving two people with serious injuries, according to a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman. The two were the only people on the aircraft, the spokesman said.

The pair, whose ages, genders and names haven’t been released yet, suffered trauma to the head, face and back and sustained broken bones, Sector Juneau’s Chief of Enforcement officer Lt. j.g. James Dooley said in a phone interview. Dooley said he could not presume to say whether the injuries were life threatening or not.