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Patchogue resident Anne Marie Drago was convicted in Central Islip court last year to criminally negligent homicide, petit larceny, and criminal mischief for her role in the death of Evelyn Rodriguez in September 2018.
This week, a judge in Suffolk County sentenced Drago to nine months in jail after prosecutors requested a sentence of between one and three years in prison.
At the time she was struck and killed, Rodriguez had been setting up a memorial for her 16-year-old daughter in Brentwood, who was killed by an alleged MS-13 member in 2016. It is further alleged that Drago stole items from the memorial and that she destroyed a part of it.
After being struck by Drago, Rodriguez’s body was dragged several hundred feet, fracturing her skull. She died approximately 300 feet from where her daughter’s body was found in 2016.
The guilty verdict last year came following a nearly three-week trial and included testimonies from nearly two dozen witnesses, and a video taken by a News12 reporter covering the memorial, which depicted the entire fatal incident.
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