CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect crash date and date of death for the crash victim, Chloe Hodge.
The motorist charged in the January death of a 17-year-old high school student pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 23, to multiple charges including a first-degree felony in Logan County Common Pleas Court.
Briana Mohler, 32, of Lakeview, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, a first-degree felony, as well as misdemeanor counts of driving under suspension and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
The defendant admitted to responsibility in the Jan. 27 death of Indian Lake High School student Chloe Hodge. Mohler admitted in court to being under the influence of drugs while driving when she crashed head-on into a vehicle Hodge was driving. The teen was later pronounced dead at the Ohio State Medical Center in Columbus.
A prison sentence of at least three years is mandatory. Logan County Prosecutors are asking for sentence on the higher end, between 11 and 16 1/2 years.
A mandatory lifetime driver’s license revocation also applies in the case.
Mohler was out on bond on another case the morning of Jan. 25 when she was 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.
Ms. Hodge succumbed to injuries she sustained in the crash on Jan. 27.
Mohler had recently 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.
A pre-sentence investigation was ordered and she will be sentenced at 11 a.m. May 28.
