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LOS ANGELES (AP) A teenager facing drunken driving charges in a Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family had escaped from a juvenile facility, and it's unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, an Orange County supervisor says.
Jean Ervin Soriano, 18, fled the Youth Guidance Center in Santa Ana, Calif., on March 1. The facility treats drug and alcohol abusers and is run by the Orange County Probation Department, which normally contacts the county Sheriff's Department regarding escapes.
However, the Sheriff's Department has no record of being asked to help look for Soriano, spokeswoman Gail Krause said.
Todd Spitzer, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that his panel only learned of Soriano's fugitive status from county officials via email earlier this week.
"This was handled incredibly nonchalantly," he said. "Why didn't the board know for more than a month? The only reason we found out about him was that he killed five people.".............
Soriano was arrested Saturday after the SUV he was driving rear-ended a van on a freeway outside Las Vegas, police said. A truck driver told investigators that he saw Soriano and his passenger walk away from the crash site and then return before rescue crews arrived.
Soriano told the arresting trooper he had "too many" beers before the crash, according to an arrest report. Several beer bottles were found in the SUV, authorities said.
Results of a blood-alcohol test were pending.............
Spitzer said he has called on the county's chief executive officer and law enforcement watchdog agency to review how probation officials handled the case.
"What did we do, if anything, and could we have done something to prevent this tragedy?" Spitzer said. "I don't have the answers. I've demanded the answers, but haven't gotten them."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) A teenager facing drunken driving charges in a Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family had escaped from a juvenile facility, and it's unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, an Orange County supervisor says.
Jean Ervin Soriano, 18, fled the Youth Guidance Center in Santa Ana, Calif., on March 1. The facility treats drug and alcohol abusers and is run by the Orange County Probation Department, which normally contacts the county Sheriff's Department regarding escapes.
However, the Sheriff's Department has no record of being asked to help look for Soriano, spokeswoman Gail Krause said.
Todd Spitzer, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that his panel only learned of Soriano's fugitive status from county officials via email earlier this week.
"This was handled incredibly nonchalantly," he said. "Why didn't the board know for more than a month? The only reason we found out about him was that he killed five people.".............
Soriano was arrested Saturday after the SUV he was driving rear-ended a van on a freeway outside Las Vegas, police said. A truck driver told investigators that he saw Soriano and his passenger walk away from the crash site and then return before rescue crews arrived.
Soriano told the arresting trooper he had "too many" beers before the crash, according to an arrest report. Several beer bottles were found in the SUV, authorities said.
Results of a blood-alcohol test were pending.............
Spitzer said he has called on the county's chief executive officer and law enforcement watchdog agency to review how probation officials handled the case.
"What did we do, if anything, and could we have done something to prevent this tragedy?" Spitzer said. "I don't have the answers. I've demanded the answers, but haven't gotten them."
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