your heart is broken and you re devastated. we want justice. we want our day in court. we identify the wrong way driver as christopher ponce. in a case like this, that is so egregious, it clear early on that alcohol most likely played a role. he had a previous dui arrest and we knew his license was suspended numerous times for various reasons. without a doubt, this is not an accident. this was a deadly, troubled, alcoholic time bomb waiting to blow up. our investigators arrived at the hospital when we knew christopher ponce was released once his treatment concluded. he had a broken ankle from an accident which seems minute compared to everything we went through. ponce was taken to hillsborough county jail, booked and charged with reckless driving, dui manslaughter and vehicular homicide.
devastated. we want justice. we want our day in court. we identify the wrong way driver as christopher ponce. in a case like this, that is so egregious, it clear early on that alcohol most likely played a role. he had a previous dui arrest and we knew his license was suspended numerous times for various reasons. without a doubt, this is not an accident. this was a deadly, troubled, alcoholic time bomb waiting to blow up. our investigators arrived at the hospital when we knew christopher ponce was released once his treatment concluded. he had a broken ankle from an accident which seems minute compared to everything we went through. ponce was taken to hillsborough county jail, booked and charged with reckless driving, dui manslaughter and vehicular homicide. then the judge said what everybody was thinking.
we want our day this court. we identified what became known as the wrong way driver as christopher ponce. in a case like this, that s so egregious it was clear early on that alcohol most likely played a role. he had a previous dui arrest. his license was suspended numerous times for various reasons. without a doubt this is not an accident. this was a deadly, troubled, alcoholic time bomb waiting to blow up. our investigators arrived at the hospital when we knew christopher ponce would be released when his treatment concluded. he had a broken ankle from the accident which seems minute compared to everything we went through. ponce was taken to hilsbor are o county jail booked and charged with reckless driving, vehicular homicide and dui manslaughter. then the judge said what everybody was thinking.
compliment. the accident didn t really surprise me. he had been caught drinking and driving before. his lifestyle didn t really seem to change. without a doubt, this is not an accident. this was a deadly, troubled, alcoholic time bomb waiting to blow up. our investigators arrived at the hospital when we knew that christopher ponce would be released once his treatment concluded. he had a broken ankle from the accident which seems minute compared to everything that we went through. we took him to the county jail. at that point we made charges of reckless driving, dui manslaughter and vehicular homicide. those were some pretty serious offenses. the first hearing that mr. ponce would face would be a bail hearing and because toxicology results can often take weeks or months to return, and without
without a doubt, this is not an accident. this was a deadly, troubled, alcoholic time bomb waiting to blow up. our investigators arrived at the hospital when we knew that christopher ponce would be released once his treatment concluded. he had a broken ankle from the accident, which seems minute compared to everything that we went through. we took him to the hillsborough county jail. at that point, we made charges of reckless driving, dui manslaughter and vehicular homicide. those are some pretty serious offenses. the first hearing that mr. ponce would face would be a bail hearing. and because toxicology results can often take weeks or months to return and without those results the judge didn t feel completely comfortable keeping mr. ponce in jail and opted to provide a high bond. the judge said that he was going to grant the bond, but he