TUCSON, AZ (AP) -
A Sells woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona.
Prosecutors say 41-year-old Angela Mata was told Friday by a U.S. District Court judge in Tucson that she must spend six months in a halfway house after her prison term and be on supervised probation for three years.
They say Mata had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system when she collided with Michael Gallagher's pickup truck in September 2010.
The Arizona Daily Star says the crash occurred about seven miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border near the Tohono O'odham village of Topawa.
Mata was charged with negligent homicide, but pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a plea agreement.
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