CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — A Huber Heights man has been sentenced to prison after a crash in Champaign County in September that killed a Mechanicsburg man.
According to Champaign County online court documents, Jeffrey Burnette, 57, was convicted of aggravated vehicular homicide and OVI on Dec. 9.
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Burnette was sentenced to a minimum of eight years in prison.
Police said Burnette was driving drunk when he hit and killed Charles Rutan Jr., 59, near a gas station on State Route 4 in Mechanicsburg. The crash happened the evening of Sept. 16.
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