What happened: The former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher convicted for a deadly 2023 DUI crash has been sentenced, according to PBSO.
Background: PBSO says that Toni Michelle McCauley has been sentenced to 16.6 years in state prison, along with 5 years of probation. She also must pay a $5,000 fine, attend DUI school, serve 200 hours of community service, and had her driver’s license permanently revoked.
McCauley — who was working as a PBSO dispatcher at the time of the crash — was found guilty in September of DUI manslaughter, DUI causing serious bodily injury, vehicular homicide, and DUI causing injury for a July 2023 crash that klled a mother and injured her two chldren in Belle Glade. McCauley’s 2021 Chevrolet Blazer was traveling north in the southbound lanes before colliding with a 2019 Kia Soul, klling Casandra Johnson-Downing, 38, and injuring her two chldren aged 7 and 5.
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Source: official sources including CBS12 News.
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