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Yahoo
02-04-2025
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Hanover Township man sentenced for fatal DUI crash
Apr. 1—WILKES-BARRE — A Hanover Township man was sentenced Tuesday for the drunken driving crash that killed 19-year-old Kaycee Ann Kreitzer, whose mother, as a Luzerne County 911 call-taker, received the emergency call last summer. Tyler Mizell, 20, of Pulaski Street, apologized during the emotional sentencing hearing before Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. "I apologize to the family; there is no excuse for anything I did," Mizell said. Mizell's apology was hard to accept as Kreitzer's father, Adam Kreitzer, said he wanted to harm Mizell himself, and her sister said Mizell only had remorse for himself for being arrested. But it was Kreitzer's mother, Melisa Hanna, who learned her daughter was in a vehicle crash when Mizell called 911 on June 22, 2024. Hanna said her daughter enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps when she was 17 years old and was studying to become a diesel mechanic. "This past year has been dreadful," Hanna said, "Any sentence you receive will mean nothing to me." Pennsylvania State Police at Shickshinny, in court records, say Mizell had a blood alcohol level of .081 percent when he crashed a 2010 Chevrolet Colorado into an embankment at Nevel Hollow Road and Hunlock-Harveyville Road in Union Township. At the time of the crash, Mizell was 19-years-old. A person under 21 years old is considered legally intoxicated with a blood alcohol level above .02 percent. Sklarosky noted Mizell did not adhere to warnings or the dangers of drunken driving when he pled guilty before Judge Michael T. Vough to an unrelated drunken driving offense on May 23, 2024, about one month before the fatal crash. Sklarosky sentenced Mizell to two to 10 years in state prison on charges of vehicular homicide, driving under the influence as a minor and reckless driving. Mizell pled guilty to the charges Jan. 28. Vough on Oct. 10 sentenced Mizell to six months probation for driving under the influence that involved striking a pedestrian in the area of Sans Souci Parkway and Main Road in Hanover Township on Sept. 16, 2023.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
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Hanover Township man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in drunken crash
Jan. 28—WILKES-BARRE — A Hanover Township man charged with vehicular homicide for the drunken driving crash that claimed the life of a 19-year-old Newport Township woman pleaded guilty in Luzerne County Court. Tyler Mizell, 20, of Pulaski Street, had an alcohol level of .10 percent when he crashed a 2010 Chevrolet Colorado that killed Kaycee Kreitzer, 19, of Glen Lyon, on June 22, said Assistant District Attorney Daniel Marsh on Tuesday. Kreitzer was a passenger in Mizell's vehicle when it crashed into an embankment at Nevel Hollow Road and Hunlock-Harveyville Road in Union Township. Kreitzer was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Pennsylvania State Police at Shickshinny charged Mizell after investigating the crash. Marsh reviewed the plea agreement before Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. that involved Mizell pleading guilty to homicide by vehicle, driving under the influence and reckless driving. Sklarosky accepted the plea agreement and scheduled Mizell to be sentenced April 1. In an unrelated case, Mizell was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Vough on Oct. 10, 2024, to six months probation for a drunken driving crash on Main Road, Hanover Township, on Sept. 16, 2023. Mizell remains jailed at the county correctional facility.
