LASD deputy sentenced to probation for off-duty hit-and-run crash in Covina
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy was sentenced to probation for a hit-and-run crash that happened while he was off-duty back in 2018.
Orlando Sotomayor Flores, 42, was sentenced to two years of probation, a three-month DUI program and was ordered to surrender his Peace Officer Standards and Training certification on Monday. He was also ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution to the victim of the crash.
He previously pleaded no contest to the charges, which stemmed from a crash that happened back on March 29, 2018, when he rear-ended a car while speeding on the eastbound I-10 Freeway a little before midnight, according to prosecutors. The crash caused the victim's care to roll multiple times before it collided with another vehicle.
Instead of staying at the scene, Flores fled for several hours before surrendering to law enforcement at around 4 a.m. the next day.
The charges included one felony count of reckless driving involving alcohol causing injury and one misdemeanor count of hit-and-run causing injury, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
LASD's Sheriff's Information Bureau says that he is "relieved of duty pending the outcome of the internal administrative investigation."
Last week, a sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department was arrested for a hit-and-run crash that killed a teenager in Orange County.