A 35-year-old man was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 10, to 10 years in prison for a fatal crash in Buena Park.<\/p>\n
He could have gotten much less time.<\/p>\n
Jose Luis Contrerasdiaz pleaded guilty March 20 to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08% or more causing injury, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of driving without a valid driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n
He was due to be sentenced June 13 \u2014 but he failed to appear for the hearing, prompting Orange County Superior Court Judge Larry Yellin to issue a warrant for the defendant\u2019s arrest. Yellin had offered Contrerasdiaz a six-year sentence before that.<\/p>\n
Contrerasdiaz was booked in Orange County Jail 10 days later.<\/p>\n
Contrerasdiaz \u201cwent on a bit of a bender\u201d that got him booted from monitored outpatient sobriety treatment after his guilty plea, Deputy District Attorney Devin Campbell said in court in June.<\/p>\n
When the defendant pled guilty, he had 192 days credit behind bars.<\/p>\n
Contrerasdiaz had a blood-alcohol level of 0.12% while speeding and ran a red light causing the crash just after midnight on Oct. 10, 2022, on Beach Boulevard near the 91 Freeway, according to court records. The collision killed 67-year-old Mohan Ganesh Dhuri of Anaheim.<\/p>\n
Contrerasdiaz was \u201credlining his new Jeep Saraha at 110 mph on a city street while drunk, running a red light and colliding into (the victim\u2019s) car as the victim made a left turn from a freeway off-ramp,\u201d Campbell said in a sentencing brief.<\/p>\n
The defendant started drinking again five days after he pled guilty and through the end of March, Campbell said. The prosecutor recommended a sentence of 10 years and six months.<\/p>\n
The defendant \u201chas now demonstrated in multiple ways in the months since his plea that he just doesn\u2019t care,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cApparently, killing another human being wasn\u2019t enough of a wake-up call for him. Apparently, whatever he was doing pre-plea to \u2018get on the right track\u201d was all for show.\u201d<\/p>\n
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