Aurora man gets 10-year prison term for DUI deaths
Five weeks before he killed two Batavia men in a high-speed drunken-driving crash, Thomas Ofenloch Jr. was arrested on charges of driving under the influence.
On Friday, Kane County Judge Timothy Q. Sheldon said he took that into consideration in sentencing the 26-year-old Aurora man to 10 years in prison.
“The defendant has a horrendous driving record, which indicates a total disregard for the law,” Sheldon said. “His sorrow in court today comes too late.”
Assistant State’s Attorney Greg Sams said Ofenloch had a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal threshold and was high on marijuana on Aug. 4, 2007, when his red Nissan barreled past a stop sign at no less than 104 mph and struck a tree just north of a T intersection in Sugar Grove shortly before 3 a.m.