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HIBBING — Prosecutors say a Marble man could serve more than five years in prison after admitting to being high on drugs when he crashed a vehicle into another on
Thomas Gilley has battled addiction nearly his entire life, a defense attorney said as the 27-year-old was sent to prison Thursday for a fatal crash in November.
A Marble man has admitted that he was high when he crashed his SUV into another vehicle on Highway 5 in November 2020, a head-on collision that killed 39-year-old Franklin D. Rice of Hibbing.
Thomas Michael Gilley, 27, pleaded guilty Monday in St. Louis County District Court to one felony count of criminal vehicular homicide. Minnesota statutes show that he faces a maxim of 10 years in prison if convicted.
Gilley had initially been charged with two of the felony counts, but he entered a plea deal which dropped one and called on prosecutors to seek a sentence that aligns with the state guidelines, as first reported by the Star Tribune.
An Iron Range man was jailed late last week in Pine County after allegedly possessing numerous controlled substances while skipping out on court-mandated house arrest.
Thomas Michael Gilley, 27, faced an active warrant for his arrest on April 30, when authorities say he violated stipulations of his supervised release and was found possessing drugs about 75 miles from his assigned treatment center.
A St. Louis County judge in Hibbing approved an increased bail amount for Gilley on April 6, raising it to $200,000, stemming from December 2020 charges of vehicular homicide in Hibbing. He was originally released on $100,000 bail earlier this year, but prosecutors successfully pushed for a higher bail amount and house arrest after he was arrested for suspicion of DWI in March.