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A corporate lawyer from Evergreen has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular assault while driving drunk and child abuse.
Jeffrey Scott Detlefs, 57, was an attorney with Kerr Brosseau Bartlett O’Brien in August when his Lexus sport utility vehicle struck Jefferson County public defender Rex Hegyi, who was riding his bicycle along the Evergreen Parkway ramp to Interstate 70.
Detlefs drove off with his three children — 11-year-old twins and an 8-year-old — in the vehicle. His license plate fell off in the collision, and he was arrested at his home a short time later. Hegyi was seriously injured but recovered.
Detlefs was sentenced Friday and taken to prison.
He had agreed to plead guilty in January.
