RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A drunk driver who struck and severely injured a U.S. Border Patrol agent staffing a checkpoint on Interstate 15 near Temecula
was bound for state prison today to serve a sentence of four years, four months.Jaime Alejandro Garcia, 31, of San Bernardino pleaded guilty in March to hit-and-run resulting in great bodily injury, driving under the influence
causing great bodily injury and DUI with an excessive blood-alcohol level.Garcia's plea was made directly to Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas Kelly, without input from the District Attorney's Office. During a
hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Tuesday, Kelly imposed the sentence he had stipulated after accepting the defendant's admissions in March.The judge has since signed the order autho
