ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man was sentenced Thursday to years in state prison for a 2023 fatal crash that killed two people, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office announced.<\/p>\n
Imanol Caraballo, 25, pleaded guilty on Jan. 21, 2026 to two counts of Homicide by Vehicle while Driving Under the Influence, Accidents Involving Death and Driving under the Influence of a Controlled Substance, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Caraballo was sentenced on Thursday to serve 9 to 30 years in state prison.<\/p>\n
Around 1:15 a.m. on Dec. 10, 2023, Allentown Police and first responders were called for two pedestrians struck in a hit-and-run crash in the 300 block of Hamilton Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police the vehicle that struck the two people was a grey sedan that fled eastbound on Hamilton Street.<\/p>\n
Officials said that Christopher Stocker, 44, and Luz Ruiz-Acosta, 43, also of Allentown, both died from blunt force injuries due to a motor vehicle crash and their deaths were ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n
While traveling in the 100 block of Walnut Street, an Allentown Police officer found a silver sedan parked nearby. The car\u2019s windshield was smashed and the hood was dented.<\/p>\n
Caraballo was nearby and the investigation revealed he had been driving the car at the time of the crash that killed the two victims, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Caraballo\u2019s blood tested positive for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, the DA’s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man was sentenced Thursday to years in state prison for a 2023 fatal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,31],"class_list":["post-130833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}