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Illinois man gets 10 years for DUI crash that killed 2
March 13, 2021
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ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in a drunken driving crash that killed two people in 2019.
Adrian Velasco, 23, of Glendale Heights was sentenced Thursday. He pleaded guilty in October to two felony counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol in the March 2019 crash, the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported.
Authorities said Velasco had a blood alcohol content of .271 more than three times the state’s legal threshold of .08 when his vehicle plowed into a car in Elgin, killing driver Norieli Villagomez, 26, and passenger Omar Zavala, 30.
Man gets 10 years in prison for DUI crash that killed 2 in Elgin Adrian Velasco
Updated 3/11/2021 7:45 PM
A Glendale Heights man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for killing two people in a drunken, high-speed crash in Elgin in 2019.
Adrian Velasco, 23, could have been sentenced to 28 years maximum, or as few as six, for aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol. Kane County Assistant State s Attorney Mark Stajdohar had asked for 23 years.
Kane County Judge John Barsanti said he had to take into account that Velasco had no previous criminal history. But he gave more than the minimum because Velasco drove more than 40 mph over the speed limit, he said.
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