Crime & Safety
Mission Viejo Man Accused of Deadly Drunken Desert Crash
Arresting officers say Jean Ervin Soriano was drunk at the time of a deadly Nevada crash.
A man accused of killing five members of a family this week and injuring two more on a Nevada Highway was born in Mission Viejo, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Jean Ervin Soriano, 18, is accused of driving a sports utility vehicle into a mini van carrying the Fernandez family, rolling both vehicles and causing the van to spin out and flip around 3 a.m. Saturday about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. He is being held on $3.5 million bail, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Soriano admitted to drinking too many beers in an arrest report, the Journal said.
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Soriano reportedly was born in Mission Viejo and listed Ladera Ranch as his home on a 2011 police citation. He told a Nevada judge he lived in St. George, Utah.
His arraignment is scheduled for April 10.
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The victims were also from Southern California. You can read more about them at the Baldwin Park Patch.
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