CENTREVILLE -- A man who authorities suspect is an illegal immigrant was sentenced Monday to 10 to 15 years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old Mendon boy.

Sergio Onofre, 21, of Three Rivers, pleaded no contest in April to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, causing death and failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death. Police have said Onofre was driving a Ford Mustang that ran off M-60 in Park Township at about 6:25 p.m. Feb. 17 and struck Daniel P. Turner. Onofre then crashed his car and fled on foot.

St. Joseph County Prosecutor Douglas Fisher said the sentence by Circuit Judge Paul Stutesman was the ``legal maximum allowed by law.'' He said the judge departed from guidelines ``because of (Onofre's) actions at the crime scene, his failure to recognize his alcoholism and his failure to show remorse and had nothing to do with his illegal-alien status or national origin.''

Police have said Onofre provided information to St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office investigators that has led them to believe he is in the United States illegally.

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