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Man who got home detention in fatal DUI case back in jail

Posted October 28, 2015 7:00 am

The Associated Press

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - An Evansville man sentenced last week to home detention after pleading guilty in a fatal crash is back in jail after failing a drug test.

The Vanderburgh County prosecutor's office says 29-year-old Connor Dant failed an initial drug screening in his electronic monitoring for home detention.

The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/1GwVt0K ) Dant was sentenced last Thursday to two years of home detention after pleading guilty to striking and killing a pedestrian while driving drunk.

A judge allowed Dant to plead guilty to a lower level felony than he'd been originally charged in the February death of 58-year-old Darrell Asbridge.

But the judge warned Dant that he would have to serve his sentence in prison if he failed to completely follow the terms of his home detention.

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Information from: Evansville Courier & Press, http://www.courierpress.com

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