A Chesapeake man pleaded guilty last week to charges stemming from a car accident that claimed the life of a Chesapeake woman in November of 2002.

Timothy Crouch, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated possession of drugs and possessing criminal tools.

Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Richard Walton heard his plea and will sentence Crouch April 9.

On Nov. 3, 2002, authorities said that Crouch was under the influence of drugs when his car veered left of center on State Route 7 and collided head-on with a car driven by 84-year-old Juanita Moore of Old State Route 7. Moore was killed in the accident.

Also last week, a Flatwoods, Ky. man will spend four years in prison for a string of drug -related charges to which he has pleaded guilty. Judge Walton sentenced Larry Gilliam, 52,

to 18 months in prison and fined him $2,500 for one count of trafficking in drugs. Gilliam also was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $5,000 for pleading guilty to one count of aggravated trafficking in drugs and for each of three counts of trafficking in cocaine, 18 months in prison and $2,500 . The sentences will run concurrently.

In addition, Gilliam will lose his driver's license for two and a half years and will forfeit $1,100 he was carrying on his person at the time of his arrest. Gilliam was one of several people arrested in

a drug roundup earlier this year.