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'Reckless driving in a 20,000-pound truck': Trucker with no CDL sentenced for killing 5 members of a family while drivin [View all]
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/reckless-driving-in-a-20000-pound-truck-trucker-with-no-cdl-sentenced-for-killing-5-members-of-a-family-while-driving-frankenstein-vehicle-with-faulty-brakes/‘Reckless driving in a 20,000-pound truck’: Trucker with no CDL sentenced for killing 5 members of a family while driving ‘Frankenstein’ vehicle with faulty brakes
COLIN KALMBACHER
Jun 22nd, 2024, 5:21 pm
A Colorado trucker will spend over a decade in prison for a tragic highway crash that killed a family of five in June 2022.
In March, Jesus Puebla, 28, was convicted by Weld County jurors on each one of the 10 counts filed against him in December 2022.
During the fatal accident on Interstate 25, Puebla was driving a box truck containing U.S. Postal Service mail without a commercial driver’s license. He rear-ended Aaron Godinez, 20, his fiancee Halie Everts, 20, the couple’s 3-month-old daughter Tessleigh Godinez, and Aaron’s parents Emiliano Godinez, 51, and Christina Godinez, 47. The truck was traveling some 76 mph while the victims had essentially come to a stop for traffic — and were decelerating between 6 mph and 10 mph.
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On Friday, Weld County District Judge Allison Esser sentenced Puebla to two years in prison for each homicide conviction and one year in prison for the assault conviction, according to a courtroom report by Denver-based NBC affiliate KUSA. Those sentences will be served consecutively or one after another. For counts 7-9, the judge sentenced Puebla to 90 days in prison, concurrently, or at the same time, but credited his 93 days in pretrial detention — effectively ruling them served. For count 10, the defendant was given a $100 fine.
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COLIN KALMBACHER
Jun 22nd, 2024, 5:21 pm
A Colorado trucker will spend over a decade in prison for a tragic highway crash that killed a family of five in June 2022.
In March, Jesus Puebla, 28, was convicted by Weld County jurors on each one of the 10 counts filed against him in December 2022.
During the fatal accident on Interstate 25, Puebla was driving a box truck containing U.S. Postal Service mail without a commercial driver’s license. He rear-ended Aaron Godinez, 20, his fiancee Halie Everts, 20, the couple’s 3-month-old daughter Tessleigh Godinez, and Aaron’s parents Emiliano Godinez, 51, and Christina Godinez, 47. The truck was traveling some 76 mph while the victims had essentially come to a stop for traffic — and were decelerating between 6 mph and 10 mph.
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On Friday, Weld County District Judge Allison Esser sentenced Puebla to two years in prison for each homicide conviction and one year in prison for the assault conviction, according to a courtroom report by Denver-based NBC affiliate KUSA. Those sentences will be served consecutively or one after another. For counts 7-9, the judge sentenced Puebla to 90 days in prison, concurrently, or at the same time, but credited his 93 days in pretrial detention — effectively ruling them served. For count 10, the defendant was given a $100 fine.
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