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Cold Stone heiress sentenced for fatal DUI crash

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02:02 PM Mountain Standard Time on Friday, May 9, 2008

By 3TV

UPDATE -- MAY 8:
The daughter of the Valley's Cold Stone Creamery founders was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison for a fatal DUI crash.

Savannah Sutherland was also sentenced to five years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.

ORIGINAL REPORT:
MESA -- The daughter of the Cold Stone Creamery founders has signed a plea deal in connection to a fatal DUI crash.

The accident happened in March 2006.

Prosecutors say Savannah Sutherland, 23, was behind the wheel when she rear-ended a scooter near Baseline Road and Farnsworth Drive.

Genovena Tepec-Juarez, 36, was thrown into Sutherland's windshield then she fell off and was dragged a quarter-mile.

Sutherland's blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit.

She's currently under house arrest and is scheduled to be sentenced April 16. Sutherland could get up to 10 years behind bars.