A repeat drunken-driving offender was ordered yesterday to serve eight years in prison and pay a $2,500 fine for a November crash that killed a Glen Burnie woman.
Mhamed Bouadjemi, a 46-year-old carpenter from Pasadena, was charged with one count of automobile manslaughter for the head-on crash on Mountain Road that killed Darla Lee Rodey, 43.
He was sentenced to serve 10 years in jail and pay a $5,000 fine. Two years of the prison term and half the fine were suspended.
Arundel Circuit Judge Ronald A. Silkworth also sentenced Bouadjemi to three years each on two counts of causing a life-threatening injury while intoxicated - two of the five teen-agers in Rodey's car were injured. Those sentences also were suspended.
After he leaves jail, Bouadjemi must serve five years' probation, during which he cannot drink alcohol. He also was ordered to serve 500 hours of community service speaking to others about "the horrors of drunk driving," said William Roessler, deputy state's attorney.
Silkworth might also order Bouadjemi to pay restitution to Rodey's family and the teen-age victims. Roessler said he will present the state's recommendation on restitution to the judge within 30 days. A civil suit filed by Rodey's relatives against Bouadjemi is pending.
State records show that Bouadjemi, of the 600 block of Powhatan Beach Road in Pasadena, has three previous convictions for drunken driving.
