Flores sentenced to 3 years of probation
El Paso,TX- Edgardo Flores will have to serve 6 months jail time on nights and weekends.
That’s on top of the three years probation for the 2012 car wreck that killed State Trooper Javier Arana.
A judge gave Flores a three-year suspended sentence meaning Flores will do jail time at nights and weekends for 6 months so he can continue his classes at UTEP.
Flores was convicted last Friday on a manslaughter charge but found not guilty of aggravated assault.
The prosecution said Flores ran a red light, hitting the trooper’s car. Arana died at the scene. However, witnesses in the trial testified it was Arana who ran the red light.
Feb. 6 update: Flores found guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of aggravated assault.
Original Feb. 6 story: Jury deliberation has begun in the trial of Edgardo Flores, the man accused of killing a state trooper in 2012.
Flores faces manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges.
Prosecutors say Flores ran a red light and hit the patrol unit trooper Javier Arana was driving.
“He made a choice to a run a red light, and his choice ripped a hole in the Arana family,” the prosecution said Friday during the trial. “Don’t forget the defendant’s statement as he said I passed the red light, that’s why he hit me.”
But the defense argues Arana was the one who ran the red light while responding to an emergency call at the time.
“When have you ever seen an emergency vehicle take an intersection like that? You never see that,” the defense said during the trial Friday. “The trooper entered the intersection, according to five witnesses, when the light was red. Not yellow.”
The defense added that the reliability of Flores’ statement should be questioned because of the condition Flores was in at the emergency room after the crash.
