Man gets prison for fatal crash while fleeing Border Patrol 9 missing after fishing boat capsizes in South Korea

SAN DIEGO – A man who crashed a car while fleeing U.S. Border Patrol agents in Southern California, killing one of his passengers, has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison, prosecutors said.

Two people were critically injured in the crash on Christmas Day 2021 when Kevin Antonio Quevedo-moncada lost control during a pursuit and crashed into a tree in eastern San Diego County, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The 23-year-old from Orange County pleaded guilty last year. He was sentenced Friday.

According to prosecutors, the defendant picked up three people who entered the U.S. without authorization and were hiding in the Otay Mountain Wilderness, just north of the U.s.-mexico border.

One of his passengers, 52-year-old Gaudencio Gerardo Luna-vasquez, died at the scene. Two others were hospitalized.

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft on Sunday were searching for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized off the country’s southwestern coast.

The coast guard from the southwestern port city of Mokpo said that three crew members were rescued by a nearby commercial vessel following the accident late Saturday near Daebichi Island in the sea county of Sinan.

Survivors said the boat’s engine room had quickly filled with water before the 24-ton vessel tipped over, according to the coast guard.

Officials were planning to salvage the boat, but it wasn’t known whether the nine missing crew members would be inside. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said seven of the missing were South Korean nationals and the two others were foreigners, but it didn’t immediately confirm their nationalities.