Halloween Hit-and-Run Suspect Violated Probation Seven Times

A follow-up on the Santa Ana hit-and-run killings.

These deaths are on the hands of the radical left and its depraved lenient prison sentencing movement.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Suspect in Halloween hit-and-run deaths had violated probation 7 times":

31-year-old man arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run driving in the Halloween collision in Santa Ana that left three girls dead has a years-long criminal history and was driving on a suspended license, court records show.

Jaquinn Bell, a resident of Orange, was arrested Sunday outside a Motel 6 in Stanton, Santa Ana police said at a Monday news conference. He is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

Court records in Orange County Superior Court show that Bell was convicted of hit-and-run driving and driving under the influence in August.

He was sentenced to 10 days in jail, ordered to serve three years of probation and enroll in both an alcohol abuse and child abuse treatment program, court records show.

In the deadly crash on Halloween night, police said that Bell was driving with his two children, a 17-year-old boy and 14-year-old daughter.

Police said they are attempting to determine whether Bell was driving under the influence at the time of the Friday night incident.

Police said they initially detained Bell's mother and half-sister as well as his two children in connection with the incident but subsequently released everyone but Bell.

Bell’s criminal record dates back until at least 2009 when he pleaded guilty to corporal injury on a spouse or co-habitant and was given probation, which court records show has been revoked seven times since then.

The probation violations included a 2009 case in which he was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license. He was again given probation after he pleaded guilty the following year, court records show.

In 2010, he pleaded guilty to violating a protective order and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and probation and was ordered to complete a treatment program for batterers, court documents show.

His probation was revoked and then reinstated several additional times in the subsequent years, including for his August arrest for hit-and-run driving and driving under the influence.

His driver’s license was suspended in early October – 17 days before the crashed that killed the three trick-or-treaters in Santa Ana.

Twin sisters Lexia and Lexandra Perez and their friend, Andrea Gonzales, were struck crossing the road at Old Grand Street and Fairhaven Avenue on Friday at about 6:45 p.m. ...

I can hardly breathe as I write this post.

Why isn't this man behind bars? Because the radical left has destroyed the criminal justice system in California, and they aren't done yet. Proposition 47, which is ahead in the polls, is slated to release more criminal offenders back out to the streets. Inevitably, more innocent children will die.

Still more at the link.