Long Island Woman Pleads Guilty in Fatal Memorial Dispute
Ann Marie Drago accepts plea deal for criminally negligent homicide after multiple mistrials in the death of Evelyn Rodriguez.
- Ann Marie Drago, 63, admitted to running over Evelyn Rodriguez during a confrontation in 2018.
- Rodriguez was mourning her daughter, who was killed by MS-13 gang members, at the time of the incident.
- Drago's plea deal comes after two mistrials and an overturned conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct.
- She is expected to receive five years of probation but prosecutors are pushing for a prison term of one to three years.
- Sentencing is scheduled for August 1, with Rodriguez's family not present in court for the plea.