AUBURN — A Lewiston woman whose sentence on a charge of threatening with a dangerous weapon had been postponed so she could stay with her children was ordered Thursday to start serving her time because she was arrested recently for drunken driving and other related charges.

Shunte Jones, 33, of 174 Blake St. had been sentenced on the earlier charge to four years in prison with all but nine months and a day suspended plus two years of probation. A judge had stayed her sentence until March, when Dennis Moore, 35, who was convicted and sentenced in the same incident, was expected to be released from jail. 

The judge had allowed the arrangement to provide continuous parental supervision of the couple’s two children, who are 3 and 6 years old.

On Thursday, the judge revoked Jones’ post-conviction bail. A Nov. 20 court date was scheduled to hear the new charges, which she denied Thursday.

Police say Jones had been drinking at a private club with her cousin in early October, leaving her young children home alone. She was arrested on charges of operating under the influence, endangering the welfare of a child and failing to notify of a motor vehicle accident. She reportedly smashed her car into a Lewiston police sergeant’s private pickup truck parked near the Park Street police station.

Police had noticed her car broken down on Bates Street on Oct. 10. Jones showed signs of injury from the accident. She told police she was unable to identify the vehicle her car hit.

Jones was convicted last summer of criminal threatening for using a gun to force a man into a vehicle and driving him around the city with her boyfriend, Moore, in an effort to recover $100 from a counterfeit bill.

Moore pleaded guilty in July to two counts of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. He was sentenced to four years in prison with all but nine months suspended, followed by two years of probation. He began serving his sentence at that time.