Mexican national sentenced for DWI deaths

Posted at: 08/11/2009 9:03 AM | Updated at: 08/11/2009 9:23 AM
By: Reed Upton, KOB.com

Cesar Ramirez-Romero in court

A Mexican National who has lived in the Santa Fe area for 12 years has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison followed by deportation for a drunken crash that killed two people in March.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Cesar Ramirez-Olivas was so inebriated after the crash that he could hardly walk and he mumbled his speech.

His blood-alcohol content was 0.18 when his blood was drawn four hours after the crash that killed 48-year-old David Romero and 41-year-old Ramona Miera, according to the report. Anyone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 is legally preseumed to be intoxicated.

Romero and Miera were on a motorcycle south of Taos when they were struck head on by Ramirez-Olivas. Romero, of rancho de Taos, died at the scene. Miera, of Farmington, was airlifted to Christus St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe where she later died.

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