A man has been arrested in a May 2010 crash that killed a Georgetown University employee who was visiting Alaska.
Alaska State Police say 48-year-old Alfred C. Jones tested positive for methamphetamines, oxycodone, cocaine and marijuana after he crashed his pickup truck into a car that 25-year-old Kathleen Benz was a passenger in on May 29, 2010, according to the Homer News.
Jones is charged with second-degree murder and other offenses in the crash that injured several others in the vehicle Benz was riding in. Benz, who had worked in the Georgetown Provost’s Office since graduating from the university in 2007, was in Alaska to attend a friend’s wedding.
Jones was convicted in federal court in Nevada earlier this year of laundering drug money for smuggling oxycodone from Nevada to Alaska, the Homer News reported. Police say in court documents that he had 14 criminal convictions in Alaska, including 12 driving offenses and two DUI convictions, according to the newspaper.
The crash happened on a rural highway between Homer and Anchor Point.
