CASS LAKE - A Cass Lake man originally facing eight counts of criminal vehicular homicide was sentenced Thursday in Cass County Court to more than six years in prison.
Michael James Stangel, 28, was arrested in May after he was involved in a crash that killed two people north of Palace Casino in Cass Lake. Stangel had a blood-alcohol content of .33 percent when his vehicle crossed the center line of County Road 75 and struck a Cass Lake couple's vehicle head on.
Stangel pleaded not guilty in September; and under a plea agreement with prosecutors, six of the charges against him were dismissed Dec. 8.
