Victim's mother angry after impaired driver's latest arrest
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Justin Caramanica, the man who admitted to being intoxicated when he hit and killed a 12-year-old girl last Halloween, is facing new charges for driving under the influence. Video by ktnv.com
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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- Justin Caramanica, the man who admitted to being intoxicated when he hit and killed a 12-year-old girl last Halloween, is facing new charges for driving under the influence.
However, it was while he was out on bail.
This time around, Caramanica is charged with DUI, driving on a revoked license, failure to drive in a marked lane, and no proof of insurance.
Police say the charges come after a Saturday night incident when Caramanica drove into a parked car. No one was injured this time.
"It's appalling," says Rocquell Love, the victim's mother. "Thank God someone else's mother isn't sitting where I am today because the car was parked." Love is angry. "That tells me that what happened on October 31 really didn't change his life that much," says Love. Groups like STOP D.U.I. think offenders like Caramanica should be held in jail until sentenced in felony DUI cases. They want the judge in Caramanica's case to sentence him harshly after this past weekend's accident. But, it would be hard to pass a blanket rule for every DUI case says Action News Legal Analyst Al Lasso. The two crashes will be seperate court cases. However, Lasso says this weekend's DUI charge could factor into Caramanica's upcoming sentence in Faith Love's death. "Most likely he'll get a harsher sentence," says Lasso.
Tuesday, September 24, 2012 Carmanica will have his 72-hour hearing in Justice Court for the charge from this past weekend.
Sentencing in the Faith Love death case is scheduled to take place November 5th.
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