A man has been sentenced to prison for causing an Ogden Canyon crash that killed one person last January.
Daniel Joseph Lewis, 27, of Ogden, was sentenced Thursday in 2nd District Court to one to 15 years in prison in the death of 60-year-old Robert Burton, of Huntsville.
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Lewis had taken oxycodone and crossed into oncoming traffic early on the morning of Jan. 30, his GMC Sierra striking Burton’s truck, according to court documents.
In the days immediately following the crash, Weber County sheriff’s investigators said they were looking at whether the crash was related to suicidal threats Lewis had reportedly made to his girlfriend.
This week, however, prosecutors said they had ruled out that possibility.
"I don’t believe this was a suicide attempt," said Weber County prosecutor Gary Heward. "If we had evidence to support anything more than [driving with a controlled substance in his system], we would have filed it as a homicide."
At the time of the crash, Lewis was out on bail and facing a charge of aggravated robbery. According to court documents, Lewis robbed a Riverdale Halloween store manager at gunpoint as she left to make the store’s daily bank deposit.
Police later found Lewis at the home of his girlfriend, who worked at the Halloween store.
Judge Michael DiReda sentenced Lewis on Thursday to five years and up to life in prison on the robbery charge.
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