COLONIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Albany County District Attorney’s Office (ACDA) reported that 37-year-old Heath Mabeus was sentenced before Judge Roger McDonough on Friday to two years and four months to seven years in state prison in connection to a fatal pedestrian crash in Colonie. The Clifton Park man pleaded guilty in October to leaving the scene of an incident involving death without reporting, a class D felony.
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On March 14, Colonie Police responded to reports of a person being hit by a car on Wolf Road near Beltrone Drive around 6:30 a.m. The pedestrian, 58-year-old Migdalia Aulet of Schenectady, was declared dead at the scene, and officers determined that the involved driver had fled the vicinity.
Mabeus, who was eventually identified as the driver, later admitted to leaving the area immediately after the crash occurred. Detectives located his car at his Clifton Park home, finding the victim’s hair in the vehicle and the car’s windshield caved in, resulting in Mabeus’ arrest.
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The Clifton Park man offered a brief apology to the victim’s family on Friday, according to the ACDA. The victim’s son, Jonathan Aulet, issued a statement at the sentencing, saying “What you did not only hurt me, my mom wasn’t just a mom. She was a friend, a niece, an aunt, a godmother. She was a good mother to me, my brother, and our friends and neighbors, her friends and family. And that’s what you took away from us. Someone who believed in God and actually followed.”
“This crime you’re charged with, albeit not a homicide charge or manslaughter charge, has the same devastating impact on the family as if you had intentionally killed her,” Judge McDonough said to Mabeus at Friday’s proceeding. “And until you come to grips with this in your own mind and acknowledge it, you’re never going to transcend this, and the family is going to be left with additional heartbreak, additional remorse, and additional anger over this incident.”
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Mabeus was indicted in July. Assistant District Attorneys Elizabeth Jektyan and Katherine Miller prosecuted the case…