L.A. Man Sentenced for 1998 Crash That Killed 3
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PASADENA — A drunk motorist who fled the scene of a 1998 crash in the Angeles National Forest that killed three passengers was sentenced Tuesday to 45 years to life in prison.
Pasadena Superior Court Judge Joseph DeVanon sentenced Aron Miron, 52, a few weeks after a jury convicted him of three counts of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter, and one count of felony driving under the influence.
Miron, his girlfriend and two friends were on their way home from a wedding reception when his car apparently drifted off the highway and crashed into a drainage culvert on Little Tujunga Road.
Prosecutors say Miron, of Los Angeles, was able to scramble free of the wreckage and was picked up later by two passersby. Authorities said he told them he had been carjacked in Los Angeles.
Miron was hospitalized for his injuries. However, he was arrested the next day after the bodies of his girlfriend, Maria Guadalupe Martinez, and two other friends, Felix Olide Alvarez and Maria Galindo-Alvarez, were found in the car. Prosecutors said he eventually confessed to having been behind the wheel during the crash. He was held on $3-million bond.
Authorities said Miron had twice before been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, in 1996 and 1998.
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