Driver of stolen truck gets 2-year sentence - Nogales International
He pleaded guilty to one count of car theft, a Class 3 felony, and one count of unlawful flight from a pursuing law enforcement vehicle. According to the case file, on the morning of March 7, two state police detectives took up watch on Interstate 19 in Santa Cruz County for a Ford F350 truck that had been reported stolen out of Tucson. At approximately 11:36 a. m. , the detectives spotted the truck traveling south at Kilometer 42 and called for a patrol unit to stop it. A high-speed pursuit ensued in which police spiked the truck’s tires near Exit 12. The driver sped off the... The driver, later identified as a 17-year-old U. S. national living in Nogales, Sonora and a 20-year-old passenger from Tucson named Ricardo Romero, bailed out and tried to flee. However, the truck they abandoned on the roadway caused a traffic jam that resulted in a “serious injury accident” in which another driver was hurt, according to the pre-sentence report. “It’s just fortunate that no one else other than this one victim was seriously injured,” Judge Fink told the defendant during the sentencing hearing. The teen reportedly told a probation officer that Romero had arranged to transport the truck from Tucson to Mexico and promised to pay him $1,000 once the vehicle was delivered and sold. Source: www.nogalesinternational.com
