Drunk Driver Sentenced to 16 Years in APD Officer's Death
Stone Mountain woman pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter in January 2012 accident that killed APD Senior Officer Gail Thomas of Austell.
Tears were flowing during an emotional day in Fulton County Superior Court on Friday as Stone Mountain’s Chasity Nicole Jones admitted she was driving under the influence of alcohol last January when she hit and killed Atlanta Police Senior Officer Gail Thomas of Austell. Because of such, Jones was sentenced to the maximum of 16 years in prison. Jones, 23, was crying at the beginning of the court proceedings when she entered a non-negotiated guilty plea to one count of vehicular manslaughter and one count of failure to obey the directions of an officer in the Jan. 24, 2012 crash on Interstate 75/85 southbound at the Brookwood Interchange. And she was fighting through tears as she addressed the court prior to her sentencing, as well. “…
Charles Schwable
3:52 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
I seriously doubts she'll even do half of that she is under jurisdiction of Dept. of Correction now, prisons are overcrowded and she might do a third and go to halfway house and do early release. more ›