Thread: Paramedic killed by immigrant driver

http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4000261

Article Launched: 07/01/2006

Convict must pay victim's family
$21,000 to go to kin of driver he killed
Daily News Staff and Wire Services
LA Daily News

SAN FERNANDO - An illegal immigrant convicted of vehicular manslaughter in connection with a crash that killed an off-duty paramedic from Antelope Valley has been ordered to pay $21,000 to the victim's family.

San Fernando Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen issued the restitution order Thursday against Juan Bibinz, 39, who is serving a four-year prison term.

Bibinz, a Littlerock resident, pleaded guilty in May to the vehicular manslaughter charge stemming from the crash that killed Michael S. Sprinkles on Sept. 6 on a rural stretch of Sierra Highway in Agua Dulce.

Bibinz's auto crossed the center divider and hit Sprinkles' vehicle head-on, according to witnesses.

Sprinkles, a 37-year-old father of two, had worked 10 years for ambulance company American Medical Response.

Bibinz, who was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers at the scene, had prior felony convictions, served time in state prison, used numerous aliases and was deported in 1999, according to authorities. He returned to the U.S. illegally and faces deportation again after his release from prison.

Father and first responder killed on his way home.