ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced charges Tuesday against an Allentown man in a 2023 fatal crash that resulted in the deaths of two people.<\/p>\n
Imanol Caraballo, 23, is charged with multiple felonies, according to a release, including two counts each of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, a felony of the second degree; two counts each of homicide by vehicle, a felony of the third degree; accidents involving death or personal injury, a felony of the second degree; and two counts each of accidents involving death or personal injury while not properly licensed, a felony of the third degree.<\/p>\n
Killed in the crash were Christopher E. Stocker, 44, and Luz Daneza Ruiz Acosta<\/a>, 43, both of Allentown, who succumbed to blunt force injuries after being struck in the 300 block of West Hamilton Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n Caraballo also faces misdemeanor offenses and related summary charges connected to the incident, according to the release. <\/p>\n He was arraigned Monday and released on $50,000 unsecured bail, according to the district attorney.<\/p>\n Hit-and-run crash<\/p>\n Stocker and Acosta were struck in the hit-and-run crash in the 300 block of Hamilton Street about 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n According to the release, witnesses told police the vehicle that struck the couple was a grey sedan that fled eastbound on Hamilton Street.<\/p>\n A short time later, 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 A man identified as Caraballo was nearby and the investigation determined he had been driving the vehicle at the time of the crash, the release said.<\/p>\n Caraballo\u2019s blood tested positive for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, the release said.<\/p>\n Carballo\u2019s preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Jan. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced charges Tuesday against an Allentown man in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,95192,95193,121,120,715,95194,95195,95196,716,95197],"class_list":["post-217854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-double-fatal-crash","tag-allentown-double-fatal-crash-hamilton-street","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-christopher-e-stocker-and-luz-daneza-ruiz-acosta","tag-imanol-caraballo-charged","tag-lehigh-county-da-gavin-holihan","tag-lehigh-county-district-attorneys-office","tag-who-is-imanol-caraballo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217854","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=217854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}