VIDALIA — The driver of a vehicle that struck and killed Concordia Parish Sheriff Office Deputy John Mott entered a guilty plea Wednesday at the Seventh Judicial Court in Vidalia.

Joseph Drummer, 31, pleaded guilty to the charge of vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor, five of those without benefits.

Drummer had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge.

On May 16, Drummer was driving eastbound in his 1991 Chevrolet pickup on Louisiana 568 when he attempted to turn left onto Louisiana 900, colliding with the westbound Mott.

Mott, 41, was riding on a 1999 Harley Davidson motorcycle when the accident occurred.

Neither Drummer, nor his passenger, Shawn McCarty, 32, of Vidalia was injured in the accident.

Reports indicated that Drummer’s blood alcohol content at the time of the wreck was .189, with the legal limit being .08.

Drummer had two prior DWIs before the accident with Mott.

In an unrelated case, a trial date was also set for a man connected with the bloody shooting murder of Reginald Green.

Daniel Durans Butler is set to face a pretrial hearing on Nov. 3 and face a trial by jury at the Seventh Judicial Court in Vidalia on Dec. 6.

Butler was also given a bond, set at $500,000.

Butler was one of four men who was arrested in connection with the murder

Daniel Durans Butler, Reginald Butler and Bryant LaKeith Bethley were all charged with second-degree murder at their arraignment June 2, while Daniel Butler and Andreas Marquez Cauley were indicted on charges of obstruction of justice.

These four men were arrested for the April 3 shooting on the 800 block of Alabama Avenue that left 25-year-old Reginald Green dead.

Green was sitting in a parked SUV with three other people at the time of the shooting. While he was shot repeatedly in the head and torso with a .223-caliber rifle, the others in the vehicle were uninjured.

Bethley is believed to be the gunman in the incident, and Daniel Butler and Reginald Butler — who are brothers — were allegedly in the vehicle in which Bethley fled the scene, according to Ferriday Police investigators.

Cauley allegedly threw the gun used in the killing into Black Bayou, but agents with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries later recovered it.