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NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KLAS) -- A justice released from custody the pistillate accused of driving impaired and crashing her car, resulting successful the decease of her 9-year-old niece from Porterville, arsenic prosecutors had yet to record a ceremonial transgression ailment against her.
Christina Sorensen, 61, faces charges of DUI resulting successful death, reckless driving and kid abuse, records show. North Las Vegas constabulary arrested her aft the clang connected Saturday astatine the intersection of Ann Road and Simmons Street.
Sophia Sandoval, of Porterville, died successful the crash. Police said Sorensen’s demeanor astatine the clang tract “appeared to beryllium emotionless,” documents show. A enactment trial revealed nary breath-alcohol content, though constabulary fishy Sorensen was driving nether the power of narcotics.
Sorensen consented to a humor gully astatine the scene, which was taken to a lab.
The humor results had not returned arsenic of Thursday morning. During a proceeding Thursday, prosecutors asked North Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Kalani Hoo for a 120-day hold to record their ceremonial transgression complaint, records said.
Because nary ceremonial ailment was filed, Hoo had nary prime but to merchandise Sorensen with nary conditions and void her bond. Prosecutors indispensable record charging documents wrong a tenable magnitude of clip for a justice to clasp a idiosyncratic connected those charges oregon acceptable bail, according to authorities law.
A typical from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office said the lawsuit remained nether investigation.
“Law enforcement has not received the last toxicological investigation of Ms. Sorensen’s blood, which is required to find what substances, if any, were present,” a spokesperson for the bureau said successful a statement. “Accordingly, the District Attorney’s Office is presently incapable to record a transgression complaint. It would beryllium a usurpation of our prosecutorial morals to record charges portion the substance remains nether investigation. Law enforcement does not expect to person the toxicology results from the out-of-state laboratory for respective months.”
Hoo scheduled Sorensen’s adjacent tribunal day for Dec. 10.
The hold successful receiving humor results successful Clark County is not uncommon. In 2022, prosecutors waited weeks to record ceremonial charges against a pistillate accused of her then-seventh DUI due to the fact that of delays successful testing.
