Man sentenced to prison, substance abuse treatment for crash that killed teen

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A repetition DUI offender is present being held liable for his transgression astir 4 years aft helium deed and killed a Fresno County teenager.

Albert Fimbrez was drinking and connected medicine drugs erstwhile prosecutors accidental helium crashed his pickup motortruck into Dayvon Fletcher.

"He mixed intoxicant and, specifically, Prozac," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Arlan Harrell said.

It happened backmost successful November 2019 adjacent the intersection of Valentine and Shields Avenues. The velocity bounds was 40 miles per hour. Fimbrez was going 70.

"It's the usage of substances and past making the determination to thrust this vehicle," Deputy District Attorney Steven Ueltzen said.

That behaviour killed Dayvon, who was 16 years old. It besides injured his teenage person who was walking with him.

Fimbrez was not legally drunk, but it was a calamity that did not person to happen.

The 59-year-old has astatine slightest 4 erstwhile DUI convictions dating backmost 2 decades. He has besides struggled with intelligence wellness and meth use.

Fimbrez pleaded nary contention to manslaughter earlier this year, and connected Friday, helium learned his situation sentence.

"A word of 15 years to life, which volition beryllium doubled," Judge Harrell said. "For a full committedness of 30 years to life."

The justice past took an antithetic measurement and issued a ceremonial recommendation, saying the authorities situation should enactment Fimbrez successful peculiar lodging to person substance maltreatment treatment.

It was a uncommon determination that betterment advocator Flindt Andersen tells Action News is simply a measurement successful the close direction.

"Give this feline an accidental to larn astir the illness that helium has but besides to larn astir what helium did, Andersen said.

He is the president of Fresno's President of Parents & Addicts In Need organization, besides known arsenic P.A.I.N.

"This is going to assistance different men that are successful determination that are astir apt getting retired a batch sooner than this antheral is ever going to get out," Andersen added.

He thinks Fimbrez's situation condemnation is just for the crime, and helium hopes in-prison attraction options are fixed to different offenders connected their archetypal offense.

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