Criminal charges have been filed as a result of the Jan. 25 traffic crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old high school student.
Briana Mohler, 32, of Lakeview, has been charged and indicted Tuesday, Feb. 13, by a Logan County grand jury of multiple felonies in the death of Chloe Hodge.
Mohler has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, a first-degree felony, as well as a third-degree count of involuntary manslaughter. She has also been charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs and driving under suspension.
Mohler was out on bond in another case when she was allegedly driving impaired around 9:50 a.m. along northbound County Road 130. She traveled left-of-center and into the path of the vehicle Hodge was driving.
Mohler pleaded guilty Jan. 9 to aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. Charges in that case resulted from a June 29, 2023 traffic stop by officers of the Washington Township Police Department.
In that instance, officers on patrol on Township Road 239 near U.S. Route 33 observed a vehicle being driven by Mohler and learned that she had a suspended driver’s license.
A traffic stop was initiated and she admitted there was marijuana inside of the vehicle. A probable cause search was conducted and marijuana, methamphetamine and fentanyl were located. A blue powdery substance was located folded up in a $50 bill, along with a glass methamphetamine pipe.
Her sentencing in that case originally was scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 13.
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