(Long Island, NY) Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said prosecutors will recommend the maximum prison sentence tomorrow (6/25) for a Flanders man convicted of driving drunk when he struck and killed a woman delivering newspapers to stores in the Hampton Bays business district last year.
After a three-week trial a jury last month convicted Joseph Perez, 31, of Flanders, of aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter in the second degree and vehicular manslaughter in the second degree.
Joseph Perez, 31, of Flanders, is scheduled to be sentenced today for driving drunk when he struck and killed a woman in the Hampton Bays business district last year. Photo Credit: SCPD.
DA Spota said Perez had a blood alcohol content of .20 four hours after the fatal crash on January 5, 2014.
Perez drove his Ford pickup onto the shoulder of Montauk Highway near the Ponquogue Avenue intersection and sideswiped a parked car and then the victim’s vehicle as newspaper delivery person Donna Sartori was outside of her car delivering newspapers to stores at around 4:15 am. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A conviction for aggravated vehicular homicide, a class B felony, is punishable by imprisonment in an upstate correctional facility for up to 25 years.
State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho in Central Islip will call the court calendar at 9:30 am.
