Dena Paige Devine, the 53-year-old woman who hit and killed motorcyclist Jordan Orlando Piergrossi on Honeycutt Road one year ago, admitted to drinking several beers and eating a marijuana edible before she got behind the wheel that night.
Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer in October told InMaricopa that the case would be transferred from Pinal County Superior Court to Maricopa Municipal Court where Devine would “be charged with DUI and misdemeanor manslaughter.”
He was half right, at least as of Dec. 23, when the authorities filed new charges in the city court.
Murdock Holloway, the Maricopa prosecutor, has filed new DUI, DUI drugs and reckless driving charges against Devine, police spokesperson Monica Williams said today.
Something’s missing. And Devine has not been arrested, although she faces 16 months in jail, $3,250 in fines, a revoked license and random drug testing.
Maricopa Police Chief Mark Goodman this morning said that the decision whether to file additional charges such as manslaughter was out of his hands. InMaricopa has contacted Holloway, the prosecutor, with further questions.
Devine will be arraigned in Maricopa Municipal Court at 1 p.m. Jan. 21, the one-year anniversary of the fatal crash.
Piergrossi was sober, despite whiskey bottle
The Fireball whiskey bottle found next to Jordan Piergrossi’s body. [Maricopa Police Department]A Maricopa Police Department report obtained by InMaricopa in July suggests there was uncertainty whether Piergrossi, a 47-year-old husband and father who had lived in Mesa, was also impaired at the time of the collision.
“I observed on the northwest corner of the intersection to be an empty Fireball whiskey container as well as a clear visor to a helmet that had several scuff marks on it,” officer Nathan Peterson noted.
Crime scene photographs released to InMaricopa depict the airplane bottle.
Andre Davis, investigations supervisor for the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office, told InMaricopa today there was no toxicological evidence that Piergrossi was impaired.
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