STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – A former Warren firefighter has been sentenced to prison time in the deadly drunken driving crash that killed a 17-year-old girl in Sterling Heights.
Diana Pozderca, of Sterling Heights, was killed Sept. 11, 2015, in a head-on collision on Plumbrook Road near Plainview Drive.
Investigators said the recent Macomb Community College enrollee had been driving east when an SUV traveling west at a high speed crossed into the eastbound lanes and struck her Ford Fusion. She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Tad Dennis was charged with second-degree murder and operating while intoxicated, causing death. On Nov. 29, 2017, he pleaded no contest to the charges and was released on bail.
Prosecutors said Dennis' blood-alcohol level was .149 at the time of the crash.
Dennis was sentenced to 11 to 30 years in prison.
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