Toronto man gets 5 years in prison for drunk driving death

By News Staff

Posted June 20, 2014 7:12 pm.

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A Toronto judge sentenced Oliver Karafa, 21, to five years in prison on Friday for a drunk driving death of his friend who a passenger in his Land Rover in April 2012.

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