NEWTON – A Hudson man who was arrested earlier this year during a death investigation was sentenced this week.
47-year-old Thomas Patrick Olofson was one of four men accused of attempting to conceal the death of 66-year-old Tomie Lee Misner Jr. of Des Moines after an investigation into Misner’s death in June.
According to court records, Olofson and 53-year-old Jeffery Allen Stevens of Newton had been under police surveillance as part of a drug investigation when Olofson attempted to flee from a traffic stop on June 9, resulting in a high-speed chase in which he and a female passenger allegedly threw methamphetamine out of their vehicle and attempted to destroy other evidence. The chase came to an end when Olofson drove the wrong way down I-80 and crashed his vehicle into a fence…