{"id":479926,"date":"2026-10-29T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479926\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:24:13","slug":"chaparral-man-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-in-deadly-new-years-day-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479926\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaparral man sentenced to 15 years in prison in deadly New Year\u2019s Day crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Chaparral, New Mexico, man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a New Year\u2019s Day crash in northeast El Paso that killed an 18-year-old woman and injured her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Abel Garcia, 48, pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, a second-degree felony. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. Jan. 1 at Gateway North Boulevard and Sean Haggerty Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Garcia ran a red light in a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado and struck a Chevrolet Camaro driven by Nicholas Ramirez, now 20.<\/p>\n<p>Angelique Diaz De Leon, who was riding in the Camaro, died at the scene. Ramirez was injured.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/driver-in-deadly-new-years-crash-ran-red-light-and-admits-to-drinking?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Driver in deadly New Year&#8217;s crash ran red light and admits to drinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blood test conducted after investigators obtained a search warrant found Garcia\u2019s blood alcohol concentration was 0.139, above Texas\u2019 legal limit of 0.08, the District Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile no sentence can undo the loss her family and Nicholas carry every day, we were determined to hold Mr. Garcia accountable without making them wait years for a resolution,\u201d District Attorney James Montoya said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Chaparral, New Mexico, man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-479926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}