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Former Texas City commissioner gets probation for criminally negligent homicide

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Published  February 23, 2024 4:58pm CST
Texas City
FOX 26 Houston

Texas - Former Texas City Commissioner Dee Ann Haney was given probation after being found guilty of two counts of criminally negligent homicide in a 2017 crash in Galveston.

A jury sentenced Haney to 10 years of confinement, but the sentence was probated.

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**EDITORS NOTE: This video is from a previous story. The trial for a former Texas City commissioner facing manslaughter charges began on Monday. Dee Ann Haney is accused of hitting and killing two people on the Galveston Causeway back in 2017.

Court records state a 58-year-old father and his son were putting cargo in the back of their truck on the Galveston Causeway when Haney sideswiped their pick-up and killed them. According to initial court documents, Haney showed signs of impairment at the scene and admitted to smoking marijuana earlier in the day. 

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She will spend a day in jail on the anniversary date of the deadly crash for the next four years and was fined $20,000, officials say.

Haney was first elected as city commissioner in May 2004 and was re-elected to a seventh term in 2016. She also served on dozens of boards of directors, including the Houston-Galveston Area Council.