Pearland,TX : Woman sentenced to 32 years in prison in crash that killed Pearland officer on August, Thursday 3rd 2017

A former stripper has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for killing a Pearland officer while she was driving drunk after she left work last year.

Amber Willemsen was found guilty of intoxication manslaughter in connection with Officer Endy Ekpanya's death.

Police said Willemsen, 40, slammed into Ekpanya's police cruiser on East Broadway Street near Liberty Drive in Pearland in June 2016 while he was on duty. Prosecutors say the former assistant principal and mother of two got drunk during her seven-hour shift at a strip club off the Gulf Freeway just prior to the wreck. Her blood alcohol content level was measured at .162 -- twice the legal limit.

Evidence presented in court revealed Amber Willemsen told a friend in jail that she'd had a few drinks on the night of the accident, but clearly remembers everything that happened.


Willemsen allegedly told that same friend in jail that the experience was "something to check off [her] bucket list" and said that the situation could have been much worse.


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Woman sentenced to 32 years in prison in crash that killed Pearland officer