A driver who ran away from a crash that killed a Long Beach man and critically injured a woman in August 2024 was sentenced to 11 years in state prison Wednesday, May 6, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Guillermo Penaloza, 36, was handed the sentence about a month after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter in relation to the Aug. 2, 2024, crash that left Allan Kash, 33, of Long Beach dead, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Long Beach police, at the time of Penaloza\u2019s arrest, said officers on patrol spotted Penaloza in a Chevrolet Suburban SUV and \u201chad a brief verbal exchange with him as they passed one another in their vehicles\u201d before Penaloza sped away at a high rate of speed on 14th Street. The officers followed from a distance and were not in pursuit.<\/p>\n
Penaloza crashed into a Saturn sedan that was traveling southbound along Cherry Avenue, then got out of the Suburban and ran off, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers surrounded the area and called in SWAT team officers, police said. Penaloza was arrested less than three hours later.<\/p>\n
Both Kash and the woman inside the Saturn were taken to a hospital, but Kash died.<\/p>\n
Penaloza also entered no contest pleas for single counts of receiving a stolen vehicle in two other cases, but those sentences were ordered to be served simultaneously with his 11-year term, the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver who ran away from a crash that killed a Long Beach man and critically injured a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100],"class_list":["post-303582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303582","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=303582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}