{"id":15316,"date":"2025-10-21T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15316\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:35:07","slug":"man-convicted-of-manslaughter-in-dui-crash-that-killed-a-postal-service-driver-in-garden-grove-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15316\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of manslaughter in DUI crash that killed a Postal Service driver in Garden Grove \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT BEACH \u2014 A 33-year-old man was convicted Monday of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2019\/06\/09\/1-dead-in-fiery-big-rig-crash-on-22-freeway-in-garden-grove-car-driver-suspected-of-dui\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash that killed a United States Postal Service driver<\/a> six years ago in Garden Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Lotfullah Sohaib Latif was driving nearly 90 mph on the Garden Grove (22) Freeway, near Valley View Street, seconds before \u201cveering off the highway and colliding with the guard rail,\u201d about 3:55 a.m. on June 9, 2019, prosecutors said in a trial brief.<\/p>\n<p>Latif \u201cveered back onto the road\u201d as the vehicle was disabled in the eastbound lanes. Carlos Alberto Lara crashed a semi-trailer tractor truck into the disabled vehicle and slammed into a pole, causing the truck to \u201cburst into flames,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Latif\u2019s defense attorney argued Latif tried to get the vehicle off the freeway but it was stuck. He also tried to turn on the hazard and head lights, his defense said in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>A breath test showed Latif\u2019s blood-alcohol level at .09% but a blood test showed it under the legal limit, his attorney said in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Latif was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in Lara\u2019s death, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08% or more causing injury.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors also found true sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury on the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWPORT BEACH \u2014 A 33-year-old man was convicted Monday of a crash that killed a United States Postal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,350,138,11077,11078,100,611,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-15316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-dui","15":"tag-garden-grove","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orange-county","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}