AUBURN -- An Auburn man who eluded police for weeks after being accused of drunk driving pleaded guilty to two counts of felony charges of vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle Thursday at Cayuga County Court.

Keith E. Titus, 27, waived prosecution by indictment before admitting he drove a vehicle owned by his employer into a tree on South Lewis Street Aug. 8, causing serious injury to a passenger, after he consumed several alcoholic drinks. Titus also admitted that he did not have a driver's license at the time of the incident due to a misdemeanor DWI offense from August 2000.

Titus, of 33 Pulaski St., was treated at University Hospital in Syracuse after the incident, but left through a side door when police came to charge him Aug. 8. Three other passengers were injured in the accident. The Auburn Police Department caught up with Titus and arrested him Aug. 25.

According to Judge Thomas Leone, Titus will likely receive a sentence of 6 months in jail and five years of probation for pleading guilty to the charges, pending review of a pre-sentence report. The maximum sentence is up to seven years in state prison, Leone said in court.

Titus is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 20.