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Woman Sentenced To 18-Month Prison Term In Fatal Accident

A 30-year-old Navajo Nation woman faces 18 months in federal prison after being sentenced in an alcohol-related fatal accident in northwestern New Mexico.

A judge sentenced Sheiva Dee Joe of Kahtahey, New Mexico, on Friday in federal court in Albuquerque.

Joe had pleaded guilty on March 16 to involuntary manslaughter, acknowledging that she was intoxicated at the time of the Nov. 18, 2014 crash in McKinley County.

Court documents do not disclose the identity of the man who was killed in the crash but say he was a passenger in Joe's vehicle.

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