A DRUNK driver who served four years in prison after killing three friends violated his probation by getting behind the wheel more than 100 times with alcohol in his system, authorities say.
Kevin Coffay was ordered to serve an additional nine years behind bars yesterday after investigators found he repeatedly tried to drive under the influence.
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Additionally, Coffay removed a device from his vehicle that would monitor his sobriety.
"I think its very sad that we're here," prosecutor John McCarthy said yesterday, according to WTOP.
Coffay left a party drunk in 2011 and crashed into a tree in a wooded area in Maryland while driving at a "grossly excessive speed," according to court records obtained by WJLA.
Pals Spencer Datt, 18, Johnny Hoover, 20, and 18-year-old Haeley McGuire were killed, and a fourth person was injured.
Coffay, who was 20 at the time, fled into the woods, and his blood-alcohol level was still twice the legal limit when cops found him hours later, prosecutors say.
"For a long time I would wake up and have images of the accident even though I wasn't there," Hoover's mother said yesterday, according to Bethesda magazine.
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McCarthy, the State's Attorney, told reporters that "it could easily be characterized as the worst ... DUI accident in the history of this county."
Coffay was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, but that was reduced to eight years, and he would be released after four.
He was able to get his driver's license again in 2018, but was ordered to use a device to monitor his alcohol intake.
The device sensed alcohol in his blood more than 100 times since September of 2018, even though some cases were below the legal limit, according to authorities.
"[He would] get drunk in D.C., sleep it off and then drive home the next day, and the ignition interlock is picking up when he has levels of alcohol in his system," prosecutor Bryan Roslund said, according to NBC in Washington.
His license would be suspended, but Coffay kept driving, according to NBC.
The last straw came in September when he was found driving with a suspended license, and the device was nowhere to be found.
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Prosecutors wrote in a court document submitted yesterday that "somehow the person who should have been most moved during those proceedings seems to have not registered the trauma he caused the whole community to suffer."
"How else can it be explained that less than four months after getting a new driver's license the defendant is driving again with alcohol in his system?"
The court memorandum, obtained by WJLA, revealed how on one occasion the interlock device kept Coffay from starting his car at 3:20 a.m. in the morning because of an alcohol reading of .07.
Coffay tried to start his car an hour later, but the interlock still prevented him from driving.
Prosecutors revealed that Coffay, now 28, had mulled trying to "fake the court out" with a PTSD defense.
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"To hear that he was discussing with friends coming to court and gaming the court, claiming he had PTSD, is offensive to every person standing behind me," McCarthy said, according to WTOP.
"That we are here is stunning to us."
Coffay's new nine-year sentence includes seven years for the probation violation and two for the recent offenses.
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