Guilty plea in NW Iowa fatal SUV vs. UTV crash
March 29th, 2021 by Ric Hanson
(Sioux City) – A man from northwest Iowa man plead guilty last week to driving under the influence, in connection with a 2019 crash that killed another man. According to the Sioux City Journal, 42-year-old Joshua Mahler plead guilty to a charge of OWI/1st offense.
Under the terms of the plea, Mahler was sentenced to a suspended term of 180 days in jail. Mahler will spend 60 days on electronic monitoring and a year of probation. Investigators say Mahler was driving an SUV Oct. 6, 2019, when he hit an off-road utility vehicle driven by 61-year-old Jerome Schueller.
Schueller died. Two boys ages six and eight riding with him, were injured.