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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral who officers said helium slurred that helium "pled the 5th aft a DUI clang successful Tulare successful 2023 that near 2 women with superior injuries was sentenced Wednesday, according to the Tulare County District Attorney's Office.
The DA's bureau said 28-year-old Maxwell Barrios of Tulare was sentenced connected April 23.
According to the DA, aboriginal successful the greeting connected April 2, 2023, California Highway Patrol officers were called to a clang connected southbound Hillman Street successful Tulare. A reddish Honda HR-V rear-ended a Dodge motortruck astatine a precocious complaint of speed, causing the motortruck to overturn and onshore backmost connected its wheels.
The DA said the officers contacted the Honda driver, Barrios, who slurred that helium "pled the fifth" and to "just instrumentality maine in."
28-year-old, Maxwell Barrios
During Barrios' aesculapian clearance, helium offered the victims an apology and admitted that radical told him not to thrust drunk. The DA's bureau said that toxicology reports indicated a BAC of .23% and the beingness of Delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
It was reported that the 2 women were treated astatine a section infirmary for important injuries. The DA's bureau said 1 required a partial limb amputation and has undergone 10 surgeries, with much scheduled. The different pistillate required extended country connected her hand.
Both women, according to the DA, suffered important abrasions arsenic good arsenic backmost and thorax injuries.
At trial, connected Feb. 25, 2025, Barrios pled blameworthy to each transgression charges filed against him. Barrios was sentenced connected April 23 to 4 years and 4 months successful authorities prison.
