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Woman Charged in Deadly LA Hit and Run

By Steven Rodriguez

Los Angeles police have arrested a woman and charged her with the hit and run death of a University of Southern California student and injury of a second student. Last week, Claudia Cabrera, 30, was arrested by LAPD on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter. She is being held on $1 million bail in the Van Nuys women’s jail. The hit and run case has shocked Los Angeles by its very callousness. According to multiple witnesses, the driver stopped only long enough for a passenger to exit the car and pull one of the students off the windshield. At a widely reported press conference, LAPD First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell said Cabrera was driving with a suspended license for failure to pay a ticket issued for a routine traffic violation. Besides the unnamed passenger, Cabrera’s 7-month-old son was also in the car...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).