Former S.J. Supe gets two days for fatal crash

STOCKTON — Port Commissioner Victor Mow will serve two days in jail and three years of informal probation for the 2018 death of Muhammad Butt after a traffic collision while Mow was intoxicated.

Mow, 77, was sentenced on Friday in San Joaquin County Superior Court by Judge Roy Hashimoto of Alameda County. In addition to the sentence, Mow is required to serve 250 hours of community service.

Mow, a former Stockton mayor and chairman of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, had earlier pleaded no contest to the charge of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated on Sept. 20.

During the sentencing, Hashimoto referenced that accident reconstruction investigators from the Stockton Police Department determined “the victim was at fault ... and wearing dark clothing,” according to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office.

Hashimoto also said Mow’s blood alcohol was “relatively low” pointed to Mow’s “impeccable record of service to the community.”

Mow was driving on Country Club Boulevard about 8 p.m. Nov. 28 when he allegedly struck the 82-yearold Butt, who was crossing the street near Fontana Avenue, according to Stockton Police Department reports at the time.

Arriving officers found Butt down in the street and unresponsive, reports state, and life-saving measures were unsuccessful. Butt was then pronounced dead.

Police said Mow provided two breath samples on scene that resulted in blood alcohol content readings of .10 percent both times. The legal blood-alcohol limit in California is .08 percent.

Mow told officers he had just left a wine mixer at the Stockton Golf & Country Club, where he drank two half-glasses of wine over the course of three hours.