BANGOR (AP) – A Passadumkeag man has been ordered to serve 15 months in jail for his part in a 2004 highway crash in Enfield that killed his former girlfriend and left another man disabled.

William Tash IV, 25, pleaded guilty to criminal drunken driving and criminal mischief and was sentenced Friday in Penobscot County Superior Court.

Tash was behind the wheel of a pickup that rear-ended another pickup on Route 2 on Dec. 26, 2004.

Ashlee Dunn, 21, of Howland, who was riding in Tash’s vehicle, was killed in the crash. The driver of the other truck, Pedro Quintella, 43, of Lincoln, suffered permanent brain damage that left him unable to work.

Tash’s blood alcohol level was 0.08 90 minutes after the accident, according to the prosecution. He initially claimed that Dunn had been driving and he allegedly fled to Florida to avoid prosecution when he was about to be indicted a year after the crash.

He was arrested in Florida in late December after missing his arraignment.

Tash was given consecutive sentences of nine months for criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, and five years with all but six months suspended for criminal drunken driving, a felony. Justice Joseph Jabar also ordered that Tash perform 200 hours of community service after his release and pay nearly $15,000 in restitution to victims.