WILKES-BARRE — A Hanover Township man charged with vehicular homicide for the drunken driving crash that claimed the life of a 19-year-old Newport Township woman pleaded guilty in Luzerne County Court.
Tyler Mizell, 20, of Pulaski Street, had an alcohol level of .10 percent when he crashed a 2010 Chevrolet Colorado that killed Kaycee Kreitzer, 19, of Glen Lyon, on June 22, said Assistant District Attorney Daniel Marsh on Tuesday.
Kreitzer was a passenger in Mizell’s vehicle when it crashed into an embankment at Nevel Hollow Road and Hunlock-Harveyville Road in Union Township. Kreitzer was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
Pennsylvania State Police at Shickshinny charged Mizell after investigating the crash.
Marsh reviewed the plea agreement before Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. that involved Mizell pleading guilty to homicide by vehicle, driving under the influence and reckless driving.
Sklarosky accepted the plea agreement and scheduled Mizell to be sentenced April 1.
In an unrelated case, Mizell was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Vough on Oct. 10, 2024, to six months probation for a drunken driving crash on Main Road, Hanover Township, on Sept. 16, 2023.
Mizell remains jailed at the county correctional facility.
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