A 35-year-old man will spend more than a decade in prison for hitting and killing a woman while driving drunk in Wheat Ridge last year.
Jefferson County District Judge Phillip McNulty sentenced Jian Bin Chen to 12 years in prison on April 3 for the DUI crash that killed Jody Chavez in Wheat Ridge on March 13, 2025, according to a press release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Officers responded to the two-vehicle crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Ward Road around 5 a.m. that day, according to a social media post by the Wheat Ridge Police Department. Callers had reported that Chen was driving the wrong way on I-70 in a Lexus…