Who is Stephanie Melgoza and what did she do? Illinois woman sentenced to 14 years in prison
Stephanie Melgoza, 24, is a woman from Illinois who killed two pedestrians while driving drunk in April 2022.
At the time of the crash, she was a senior at Bradley University in East Peoria.
Police who attended the scene discovered a small bag of marijuana, a smoking pipe and an open bottle of vodka in her car.
At the hearing on April 27, 2023, Judge Rim Cusack said: “What is the appropriate punishment, in order to deter other people; and what is the rehabilitative quality of the person that’s being sentenced?”