Woman applies from early release from prison for crash that injured cop

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman who caused a 100-mph, rear-end crash that severely burned an Austintown patrolman more than two years ago has applied for early release from prison.

Adrien Foutz, 24, of Iowa Avenue, Girard, is asking to be released from the Franklin Pre-Release Center in Columbus, after having served slightly more than 18 months of a two-year prison term.

A judicial release hearing will be at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 4 before Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who imposed the prison time in June 2008 after Foutz pleaded no contest to aggravated vehicular assault. The judge found her guilty.

Patrolman Ross Linert was critically injured and burned over 40 percent of his body in the fiery Nov. 11, 2007, crash on North Meridian Road at Interstate 680.

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