Fugitive Who Spent 9 Years in Kenya Sentenced for Fatal Rockville Crash

The drunk driver who admitted he killed a retired Washington, D.C., detective in a 2004 Rockville accident has been sentenced after spending nine years in Kenya as a fugitive.

The Associated Press reports Wilfred Olalo was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to homicide by motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol in 2006, but fled to Kenya before his sentencing. Olalo was captured earlier this year.

Prosecutors say Olalo was driving drunk in December 2004 when he caused three accidents in less than a half hour in Rockville.

Joseph O’Brien, 76, a former homicide detective for more than 20 years with D.C. police, died from injuries he suffered in one of the accidents Olalo caused. Olalo said in court that he doesn’t remember his actions that day.

O’Brien died six weeks after the accident on Randolph Road.

“Ever being the policeman, may I say how proud I am that at the scene, he did get out of the car to try to go get a tag number,” Debbie Eckstein, O’Brien’s daughter, told FOX DC.