Women sentenced to prison
A woman who pleaded guilty in February to a charge of vehicular homicide in a 2016 crash and a woman found guilty in November of causing a fatal crash on Cerrillos Road in 2017 both were sentenced Wednesday by state District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer.
According to a news release issued by the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office, 50-year-old Yvonne Martinez of Santa Fe, who has a history of drunken-driving convictions, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after agreeing to a plea deal in a July 2016 rollover crash in Nambé that killed two passengers.
Madeline Romero and Gary Trujillo were ejected from the vehicle, authorities said. Trujillo was pronounced dead at the scene, and Romero later died at a hospital.
Martinez and a third passenger were not seriously injured.
A blood test showed Martinez’s blood-alcohol level was 0.20 two hours after the crash, more than twice the legal limit for driving of 0.08.
Under her plea deal, one count of vehicular homicide against Martinez and a charge of aggravated DWI were dismissed.
The second defendant, 26-year-old Kasey Weaver, was sentenced to eight years in prison in the April 2017 death of her boyfriend, Kit Duane Francis II, 24, the District Attorney’s Office said.
Francis was thrown from the vehicle when Weaver collided with another car after running a red light near the Cerrillos Road on-ramp to Interstate 25.
Her blood-alcohol level after the crash also was more than twice the legal limit, at 0.17.