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Michigan Man Sentenced For Not Reporting Woman's Death After House Party

BAY CITY, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A 22-year-old man who admitted to not calling police and leaving a woman's body in a house after a night of drinking has been sentenced — mostly to time served.

The Bay City Times reports Austin Carruthers was ordered to spend 60 days in jail, with credit for 55 days already served. He also was ordered to pay $125 in fines.

Carruthers, who earlier pleaed guilty to one count of failing to report the discovery of a dead body, could have been sentenced to up to a year behind bars,

Carruthers' girlfriend called police March 4 after discovering 25-year-old Heather Jo Campau had died of alcohol poisoning at a home in Bay County's Fraser Township.

According to a police report, witnesses said Campau was "really, really drunk" when she arrived at the party and continued to drink into the night until she was carried to bed at around 2 a.m.

Carruthers said that when he and Campau's boyfriend found her dead in the morning he panicked because he had warrants out for his arrest. The boyfriend, who left the home with Carruthers after they found the body, was charged with failing to report a dead body.

An autopsy determined that Campau, a mother of one, died of alcohol poisoning. Her blood alcohol level was 0.347, according to the autopsy report. Her Facebook page says she worked as a contractor at S.C. Johnson and as a bartender in Pinconning.

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