A three-time drunk driver was sentenced Thursday to 15 years-to-life in prison for his involvement in a crash that killed a Yountville man in 2020.
Mauricio Ramirez Aguilar, 40, was convicted by a jury last month of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter. The crash on Oct. 17, 2020, killed 87-year-old Constantine Tsavalas, 87, a resident of the Veterans Home of California at Yountville.Prosecutors said Aguilar had a blood alcohol content of .204 percent, nearly three times the legal limit of .
Aguilar has two prior DUI convictions, both for collisions, including one in 2019 that involved first responders pulling him from his burning car after he drove into a power pole in front of the California Highway Patrol office in Napa.
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