Illegal immigrant gets 13 years for fatal DUI

washingtonexaminer.com
By: The Associated Press
11/15/11 3:37 PM

A Mexican man who authorities say was in the U.S. illegally has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a fatal DUI crash in southwest Florida.

A Sarasota County judge sentenced 26-year-old Daniel Garcia on Tuesday after he pleaded no contest to DUI manslaughter.

Authorities say 51-year-old Pamila Yoder died at the scene of the crash in November 2010. Garcia was hospitalized after the collision but left the hospital — an IV still hanging from his arm — before authorities could charge him.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (http://bit.ly/uaN1Rb ) reports that Garcia was eventually found in Gainesville several months later.

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