A Mahopac woman has been sentenced for a fatal drunk driving accident. 

Maggie Deperna was ordered to 6 to 18 years in prison for the June 25th crash.  Putnam County District Attorney Robert Tendy says Deperna pleaded guilty to Aggravated Vehicular Homicide and was sentenced on Wednesday for the death of James Crecco Senior.  The man was getting into his car, which was parked in front of his brother’s Lake Mahopac house on Route 6N.   Deperna struck him with her vehicle and fled the scene.

Drone surveillance revealed the woman's Jeep Cherokee hidden in the brush and trees behind her home with extensive damage to the front passenger’s side consistent with having struck a person.  The right-side rear-view mirror was recovered at the crash scene.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office investigated Deperna’s whereabouts leading up to the fatal crash. Video surveillance, license plate reader technology, and GPS location tracking data revealed that she purchased alcohol from a liquor store on the morning of the crash and again approximately an hour before the crash, while driving to several places in between including a nail salon and McDonalds. Video surveillance showed Deperna consuming a margarita at a nearby restaurant before getting into her car, pulling onto 6N, and swerving into oncoming traffic, almost causing a head-on collision with another driver, within seconds of turning the bend and striking Crecco.

GPS data concluded that after the crash, Deperna did not stop and drove directly home, where the empty bottles of wine that Deperna was on video having purchased that day were later recovered.  The day after the crash, a rental car being driven by a still-intoxicated Deperna, was pulled over.