NEWPORT — A Connecticut man was sentenced to seven and a half to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to one felony count of DUI negligent homicide in a crash that killed a 25-year-old Sullivan County woman.
On Dec. 5, 2025, Dylan Galland, 50, of East Windsor, Conn., was driving a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck on Maple Street in Newport when he crossed the centerline, striking head-on a Jeep Wrangler driven by Ashley Wendt, 25, of Washington, N.H.
His blood alcohol level at the time of the crash was 0.20, well above the legal limit of 0.08, the Valley News previously reported.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found that Wendt died of “multiple blunt force injuries,” according to a Dec. 8 Newport Police news release.
Phone efforts to reach Wendt’s family were not immediately successful on Wednesday.
In March, Galland had pleaded not guilty to charges of DUI negligent homicide, DUI aggravated collision with serious injury, and negligent homicide.
The affidavit supporting the charges against Galland states that police observed Galland exhibiting signs of intoxication, including “watery eyes, slow, thick and slurred speech and strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his person.”
Galland, an Air Force veteran, had an alcohol addiction, two traumatic brain injuries and had recently attempted suicide, according to the affidavit.
After the crash, Galland told police he sometimes consumed 20 drinks per week.
This month, the state and the defense reached a resolution in the case, with Galland pleading guilty to DUI negligent homicide and Sullivan Superior Court Judge James Kennedy sentencing him to seven and a half to 15 years in New Hampshire State Prison in Concord.
He is eligible to have his sentence reduced by one year if he completes substance-related programs, the sentence stipulates.
Additionally, the sentence states that Galland will indefinitely lose his “New Hampshire license or New Hampshire driving privileges.”
Voicemails left for Assistant Sullivan County Attorney Molly Lovell and defense attorney Richard Guerriero of Lothstein Guerriero were not immediately returned on Wednesday.
