DES MOINES, Iowa – A taxi driver is sentenced to at least 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in a case that killed one person and injured another.
Police say 31-year-old Mohamed Diriye was driving a taxi that left the road just north of Des Moines in January of 2017.
Forty-nine-year-old Shawn Koltiska was killed and 48-year-old Joseph Foster was injured.
In June of 2018, court records show Diriye was found incompetent to stand trial in the case.
At a status hearing in January of 2019 he was found competent and Diriye agreed to a plea deal.
He was sentenced last Friday to 10 years for vehicular homicide, five years for serious injury by vehicle, and two years for second offense OWI. The sentences are to be served concurrently.
WHO Channel 13 reports Diriye is being held in the Polk County Jail, but will be transferred into the custody of the Iowa Department of Corrections to serve his time.