Driver drunk and high on bath salts gets 18 years for Belt Parkway fatality
A North Carolina man who hit and killed a 55-year-old from Queens while drunk driving on the Belt Parkway near East New York was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday.
Milan Heggs, a 43-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Laporte after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in May 2017 after a jury trial. The hefty prison sentence is the result of a pattern of persistent violent felonies in his past and he faced up to life in prison.
“This defendant turned his vehicle into a deadly weapon by combining drugs with alcohol, then getting behind the wheel,” said Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez. “His reckless actions endangered many and caused an innocent man to be killed. He has now been held accountable for taking a life and destroying a family.”
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