MIAMI – A Hialeah teen was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years successful situation successful transportation with the April 2024 deaths of 3 women.
In February, Maykoll Santiesteban, 16, pleaded guilty successful the case. He could person faced betwixt 28 and 65 years successful prison.
Police said Santiesteban, past 15, was driving astir 55 mph implicit the velocity bounds successful his father’s car erstwhile helium slammed into a parked conveyance successful the 400 artifact of Southeast Fifth Street connected April 23, 2024.
Yarnia Garcia Hernandez, 39, and her aunt, Gloria Hernandez, 53, were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
Hernandez’s 66-year-old mother, Liliana Hernandez Molina, died from her injuries successful September.
In February, Santiesteban pleaded blameworthy successful Miami-Dade tribunal to 3 counts each of vehicular homicide and driving without a licence causing death.
The teenager, charged arsenic an adult, entered the plea without knowing his sentence.
In summation to situation time, Santiesteban volition walk 15 years connected probation and volition not beryllium allowed to person a driver’s licence during that time.
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