A 62-year-old man has been placed on two years of probation and ordered to perform community service in a plea deal stemming from a deadly crash on the Riverside (91) Freeway in Anaheim six years ago, according to court records obtained Monday.
Daniel Dauz, who was arrested Jan. 16, 2019, pleaded guilty Friday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and admitted a sentencing enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury on one of the two victims, according to court records.
Dauz accepted a plea deal from prosecutors that placed him on two years of formal probation.
Dauz was sentenced to six years and four months in prison, but that sentence was suspended as long as he clears probation. He was given credit for six days behind bars and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, according to court records.
Leticia Ocampo Perez, who was 47, was killed in the Nov. 12, 2017, crash.
Her longtime boyfriend was driving a minivan when the headlights stopped functioning so he pulled over and put the emergency lights on, police testified at Dauz’s preliminary hearing.
Perez was in the backseat and their adult daughter was in the front passenger seat, police said.
Seconds after he pulled over the minivan was rear-ended about 2 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the freeway near the Harbor Boulevard off-ramp, police said.