YOUNGSTOWN — John A. Wardle, 32, of South Avenue in Boardman, pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide, vandalism and operating a motor vehicle impaired for a crash that killed his passenger.

The 2:25 a.m. July 8, 2019, crash killed Mohammad Musleh, 28.

Prosecutors will recommend that Wardle get four years in prison, a license suspension for three years to life, and an $850 fine; that he be ordered to receive alcohol and drug treatment, and forfeit vehicles registered to him.

Kevin Trapp, assistant prosecutor, told Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court he had spoken with Musleh’s family and Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers who investigated the case, and they are satisfied with the proposed sentence.

Wardle was driving on state Route 164 in Beaver Township during the crash that caused Musleh to be ejected from the vehicle. Musleh was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The highway patrol said Wardle tried to pass another vehicle and lost control, going off the right side of the road and overturning. Other occupants of the car were not injured.

Donofrio said during the hearing that prosecutors view this OVI to be Wardle’s third. He had an OVI charge reduced to failure to maintain physical control in a 2015 case in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman and had another OVI conviction in a 2012 area court at Austintown case, according to court records.

Wardle will be sentenced May 5.