Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced that on Wednesday, April 24, Nicholle Hoke, 45, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, pled guilty in Orange County Court to Aggravated Vehicular Homicide. It is expected that she will be sentenced to four to twelve years in prison when she is sentenced on July 23, 2024.

As alleged in documents filed and statements made in court, on June 24, 2023 at approximately 10 p.m., Hoke crashed her vehicle into another vehicle on Route 9W in the Town of Newburgh. As a result, one passenger in the other vehicle was killed and another suffered serious physical injury. Hoke told police that she was driving to her hotel from a bar in New Paltz where she was drinking. A warrant was signed for blood drawn from Hoke which revealed her blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit at 0.16%. At the proceedings, Hoke admitted that she engaged in reckless driving and caused the death of one person and the serious physical injury of another while having over a 0.08% blood alcohol content.