Following are some highlights from the State Attorney’s Office from 2018.

 

Vehicular homicide

A Key West woman who killed a popular dental hygienist by running her down with a car was sentenced to 32 years in state prison.

April Dawn Thomason, 46, claimed she was temporarily insane from withdrawing from the use of Xanax but a jury didn’t buy it. Thomason was convicted on September 26, 2018, of one count of vehicular homicide, two counts of attempted manslaughter, one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death and one count of assault. She was sentenced on November 5.

Thomason ran down Stephanie Collins, 46, on September 16, 2015, while behind the wheel of a Mercedes on South Roosevelt Boulevard. Collins died that night at Lower Keys Medical Center from what the attending medical examiner called “blunt force injuries.”

Her convictions are also for trying to run down two other people. Assistant state attorneys Colleen Dunne and Cristy Spottswood represented the state.

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